CANADA

25 and 26 June 2012: We arrived at the passport control in St. Stephen after lunch. Our first stop was to get Canadian dollars, and our second stop was at the New Brunswick information center. The first news was that the ferry we had planned to take from St. John to Digby was not running that week, it was in dry dock maintenance. But we were given lots of ideas of things to do and places to see on the drive around to Nova Scotia, so we were looking forward to the drive.

Going over the border into Canada

We drove to St. John, the only city on Fundy Bay, and camped in the city's Rockford Park. It rained all night, and was still raining in the morning. We tried to dry the tent under a pavilion, but the air was so wet that even with a good breeze we couldn't get it dry. We packed our stuff away wet as loosely as we could. We were heading for St. Martin and didn't want to be delayed.

Sheila tries to dry the tent.

We brave the rain to visit Reversing Falls, where the tide comes in so fiercely that it goes uphill. The tide was going out when we visited. At low tide you can walk across the ocean floor.
At high tide the water is 40 ft. deep.

Then we get on our way to St. Martin's to cycle the Fundy trail.

But the rain gets worse.

 After making several enquiries we learn that it is going to be bad like this for at least three days and probably a week. We really have been looking forward to seeing the maritime provinces, and so we are willing to motel it and dine in instead of camping and picnicking, but then we think: will we even be able to SEE anything?

We made the decision to turn around and start west. We will go back to Canada another time.