Day 59: New Brunswick

We woke up in Moncton this morning ready to spend the day exploring New Brunswick. Our first stop was to see the tides at the Bay of Fundy and explore the Hopewell Rocks. These rocks are really cool formations which are also known as the flower pots.

We got to the park and it was closed but it said you may enter at your own risk. So we did. We walked through the empty parking lot, past the closed visitor center and down to the lookouts. There were several nice places to see the low tide. We finally got got to the lookout for the flower pots and it was really cool! We climbs down the steps and jumped a fence to get onto the sea floor. We walked around in the shore, which would in a couple hours be under 10 meters of water, and took some pictures. Joel wen exploring while I sat in the sun and enjoyed! It was pretty cool and we were the only ones there! Pretty nice for a top tourist spot.

After the flower pots we headed to Fredericton the capital of New Brunswick. We didn't stop here but we took a look at the Loyalist Burial ground. Loyalists being Americans who fled the US after the American Revolution. They are called Loyalist because they were still loyal to the British throne. Anyway they had quite an influence in the area of New Brunswick because they were predominantly English speaking! It was pretty neat to see the burial ground which held some of these people. We also drove by a barracks and a parade square from the 1800's. cool old buildings!

After Fredericton we headed to Kings Landing which is a replication city from the 1800's, but after poking around for a bit we discovered it to be closed. So we kept heading to Quebec.

Our last stop for the day was in Hartland which has the worlds longest covered bridge. After driving through the bridge, which was pretty cool, we headed back to the highway and on to a place to sleep for the night. That makes the amount of covered bridges we have see to three, one if California, one in Georgia, and one here! Pretty cool.

We eventually crossed over into Quebec and for the first time in our trip turned our clocks back an hour. Guess we are really heading home! Can't believe we are on the last leg of our journey! Anyway we stayed in a town called Rivière-du-Loup. Found a Walmart, parked outside and settled in for the night. I worked on my Spanish, which is going Ok. Then off to bed and to tomorrow we discover more of Quebec and put my French to the test!