Tonight we are camped at the Kounchamajigee (this is not the correct spelling) National Park in New Brunswick. We arrived fairly early (4:30 p.m.) which was great since we had time to set up the tent and then go for a walk out to the sand dunes. Quite extraordinary! The park is at the mouth of a river flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, so the waters mix here to create a wonderful bird flyway. Lots and lots of different birds, cormorants, plovers, cranes, gulls, snakebirds. On the way out to the dunes we passed a
couple who had two seven month old brown golden doodles, so we had to say hello. They were SOOooo cute! We also passed several piles of bear scat, chock full of berry seeds. The park attendant told us to store our food in the car.......then she looked up, saw the bike and said, just be careful, because there were several black bears in the vicinity. We met some folks from Sacramento who have been here for several days hiking, and they had actually seen a bear several days ago. Sooo.....we’ll be careful!
Steve’s taken some great photos from our walk this evening. I’ll try to pick up some of the best ones and upload them when I have a good internet connection.
This morning we got up and were going to go to the farmer’s market in Caraquet for breakfast but we couldn’t find it. After wandering around for a while downtown towing the trailer, we gave up and headed down the road towards the Acadian Village just outside of Caraquet. This was very interesting, similar to Williamsburg, VA, where they have tried to replicate how the typical Acadian families lived during the 1800’s. Every building had a person in period dress, and who talked about what it was like to live then. We found a cauldron of corn on the cob they were cooking and handing out today, their last day open for the season, so we each had an ear of corn and a molasses cake, ummmm yummy!
We headed out from the Acadian village in search of lunch, and finally stopped at the first open restaurant we found. Much to our delight, they had plenty of lobster choices on the menu, so Steve had a lobster omelet, and I had a lobster roll. Umm, just what we had been waiting for. We topped lunch off with a piece of warmed up sugar pie and ice cream and coffee. Way more than we needed, but it was just great!
This morning when we left the Berry Patch campground it was 60 degrees and misty, overcast. It was cloudy, rainy, and misty for much of the day, finally clearing right before we got to the national park. The mosquitos have been bad at both campsites, and our Deet doesn’t seem to phase them much. Tonight we got campfire wood when we checked in, and had a nice fire, a light meal, and great showers. We are tucked in our little tent with the heater on low, just keeping the chill off of us.
Tomorrow we are headed to Shediac, the lobster capital of New Brunswick. I want to go out on a lobster boat, so we’ll see if that happens. We may just stop for lobster, and head over to PEI. We are definitely behind on our schedule, so we may be at Jon and Lori’s by next Sunday (not tomorrow). Maybe Monday, we’ll see how it goes.
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