Travels in New Brunswick Canada and Maine

On Tuesday the 9th of June my husband Donald and I left CT, bound for New Brunswick CANADA.

On our way there we stopped off at a Hometown style Restaraunt on RTE 9 in Maine in a little town named simply Township 22

Good food and a small Hometown atmosphere where several "locals" where also there for the daily chit chat and noontime meal

After a long 8 hour drive, we arrived at the US/Canada International Bridge Border and passed into New Brunswick.

We traveled another 2.5 hours along CANADA 1 through the Villages of St George, St Andrew, St John and a few others till we reached the Town of Moncton where we stopped for the night.









The next day we traveled through Fundy Bay National Park along Rte. 114 to Alma and the Fundy Bay area. Fundy Bay is known to have the Highest Tides and the largest amount of water flowing in and out of the bay.

Each day 100 billion tons of seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy during one tide cycle more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers!

Visitors can see two extraordinary high and low tides every 24 hours. The time between a high tide and a low tide is, on average, six hours and 13 minutes. As such, you can reasonably expect to see at least one high and one low tide during daylight hours. Tide times move ahead approximately one hour each day, and tide times vary slightly for different locations around the Bay. Check with the community you are planning to visit for accurate high and low tide times.

The difference between low tide and high tide can be as great as 54 ft. 6 in. (16.6 meters) !!

Wednesday afternoon we headed south again along US 1 back towards the US and Bar Harbor Maine was our destination

After a good nights sleep at a Holiday Inn in Bar Harbor Mount Desert Island area we wandered over to Acadia National Park where we drove to the 1530 ft. summit of Cadillac Mountain.

WHAT A VIEW !

I swore I could see Canada from up there.. Actually you can`t see that far but on a Very Clear day you can see Mt Katahdin

After walking around up at the summit and learning the history of the mount

ain we headed back down the winding road to the bottom to go see the Famous " Thunderhole"

Mother Nature out did herself with this Wonder I`ll tell you !

Thousands of gallons of water rushing in to this little cove area that has been hallowed out from the tide waters makes a Thundering "boom" when the water hits the cove. As the tide gets higher the

"boom" gets louder.

Seeing this for the first time when I was 10 years old I couldn`t wait to see and "hear it" again.

This was My husband `s first trip here and he was as infactuated with it as I was.

VIDEO clip below

After spending several hours enjoying the show and the beautiful Atlantic Ocean we had to head back toward home.

Back on U.S. Rt 1 , we headed for

Bucksport Maine another place with a History and memories for me.

In a Cemmetary in the center of Town is the Col Jonathon Buck Memorial. The legend has it, that Col. Buck a highly decorated Revolutionary Soldier had condemned a local woman for witchcraft and had her burned at the stake. Before being consumed by the fire she supposedly put a curse on Col Buck stating that her presence would be known upon his tombstone. As the story goes, before she was totally consumed, her leg fell away from her body and her son recovered it from the flames and disappeared into the woods with it. He was never seen again from that day on.

60 years later when Col. Buck died and his tombstone was erected an outline of a leg and foot appeared on the bottom half of the Granite Monument and also an outline of a heart turned sideways at the top of the Monument.

Whether you believe the legend or not, it is a Fascinating site and intriguing story.

After viewing the Bucksport Legend, it was time to get back on the road and head home.

I hope you`ve enjoyed my Blog and will come back to read about our next travel log :>)