Cavendish Bike Trails

Today we biked several trails in Cavendish Park.  The views were spectacular.  Powder blue Forget-me-nots bordered the path of a woodland trail.  At one point I saw a massive bird fly over the bike trail.  For a moment, I thought it would pick Chris up by the shoulders!  Later we discovered that it was a Sea Eagle, of the Bald Eagle family.  We also saw a striking Red-winged Blackbird.

Cavendish Campground - Prince Edward Island

We have made it to o the northernmost point of our trek.  Deb says that we should never venture this far north in June because it is too cold.  So I checked, we are as far north of Boston as Virginia is south and we are roughly on the same parallel as Portland, OR and Paris, France.  But it's only suppose to get up to 16 today.  We have converted to metric pretty well. Yesterday, the GPS guided us carefully to the wrong spit of land and after some diligent internet searching, we found where we were suppose to be.  Deb looked at the GPS and moaned that we still had 32 kilometers to go. Yesterday we found a vegetable store, and got artichokes ($1.49/lb CAD)  and corn on the cob  (it was interesting produce is measured in pounds).  Also on the ferry they measured our RV in feet to make sure that we would fit on a ship measured in meters.  When we got to Cavendish, the wind was howling off the ocean which really brought up the surf.  We took a walk down the spit before dinner. There are kilometers and kilometers of dunes.  Unfortunately, Drex isn't allowed on the beach here, so he had to spend the time sleeping in the warm RV. (We are right on the beach(site 54 E/W), but somewhat in the woods - which helps with wind, but does bring the Mosquitos)

Caribou-Monroes Island Provincial Park - Nova Scotia

Well, we're getting a little smarter.  Before setting up, we decided to check out the sites in the field.  We have the most perfect spot (site 5) overlooking the Northumberland Strait.  It's almost bug less, has awesome views, and we have some internet.  Took a long walk on the beach this afternoon, got so tired we sat at the camper, watched the view and read until dinner.  It's a hard life.  We have been dry camping for three days, and with the new batteries, it has worked fantastically.  Deb even gets an hour or so of playstation in the morning.

This picture could go on the catalog cover for the RV manufacturer.

Tomorrow, we take our third ferry from Pictou (pronounced Pick-toe) to Prince Edward Island.  

Blomindon Provincial Park

Blomindon (pronounced Blah-min-don) park is on the Bay of Fundy.  The tide was a mere 43ft when we were there. We reserved a nice place right in the woods, but the park had killer views from the fields, and the temperature wasn't too hot, so we decided to move. Also the bugs were better, but the only site left was down a grassy slope with no flat spot on the bottom.  I used my handy iPhone to figure out that we were at a 6 degree slant, which made cooking, etc difficult. The view was worth it, though It rained over night and I thought, we may be stuck, if we couldn't get the RV up the wet grassy slope.  We ended up in site Y2 (no utilities).  It was Saturday morning, so we had our special breakfast.  On the second English muffin, the toaster took out the remaining juice in the battery. Well maybe it had something to do with the second batch of popcorn, the night before.  

You can see the difference in tides in these two picture, neither was at high or low tide, Deb was just taking pictures of the view and we saw the difference when we looked at them.

Thomas Raddell Provincial Park - Nova Scotia

We didn't get here until about 6:00 because we took the ferry from St John, which left at noon and arrived in Digby at 3:00.  Once we got to Liverpool, we got off the highway and drove 2 miles, and then  entered the park and drove gravel roads for two miles, and then checked in
 and drove dirt roads for two miles and finally we were right on the ocean.  A very secluded campground with two or three other people.  Site 72 next to the path to the beach (no utilities).  We are on Atlantic time which makes 5:00 come an hour earlier, also make it so it's still light at 10:00.

Rockwood Park - Saint John, NB

The sun came out today.  The Maine coast was sunny and foggy, all the way from Bar Harbor to Canada.  We ate lunch at Cobscook Bay.

Finally into Canada to spend the night in Saint John...did laundry which cost two loonies a load (a loony is a $1 coin CAD) and tomorrow we head to the ferry to go to Nova Scotia on a three hour ride.  I'm excited, but it will be another 5:00 arrival tomorrow.

Seawall Campground - Acadia National Park (2nd night)

It stays rainy and cold, but we are enjoying it.  Went for a bike ride to a lighthouse which helped work off some of the two day feast that we had with family.  After a lunch of wedding soup, a parting gift from Sie, we drove the 27 mile loop around Acadia, with a stop at a blow hole, and a scary trip to the top of Cadillac Mountain.  The wind was howling and rocking the RV, the mist reduced the visibility to a few feet.

Seawall Beach - love Maine!

Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse