PEI cont. Bay of Fundy and Camden Maine part II

End of PEI stay, Fundy National Park and Camden Maine part II

Due to heavy rains being forecasted for half of our planned stay, we changed our reservation from Nova Scotia to Fundy NP, New Brunswick. In addition we added two more days on to our stay at PEI. We spent our last few days on PEI by going over to the capital, Charlottetown and using the library,

outside Charlottetown Library celebrating 150 years of  Canada

downtown Charlottetown cafes

  followed by a walk to the harbour (their spelling).

150 Year sign at Charlottetown Harbour

Of course even there, many things mention Anne of Green Gables

Anne's cousin, Cindy of Green Gables!

On Tuesday, we drove a few miles over to New Glasgow, home of the  lobster supper. A fixed price four course dinner that has been a tradition there  since the 1950's, lots of food and very tasty to boot!
 New Glasgow Lobster Supper

PEI Mussels - yummy

We enjoyed our stay on Price Edward Island very much and hope to return there some day. Peaceful and low key coupled with fabulous views of rolling farm lands and the beaches along the Gulf makes this something to put on your list of places to go.

 The 3.5 hour drive from Cavendish NP over to Fundy NP in New Brunswick delivers you to a very nice park located next to the town of Alma, NB. Located on the bluff above the Bay of Fundy, the campsites are well laid out, and several give you a fantastic view of the bay. From these sites you an see the sun rise over the bay as well as the famous tidal change, largest in world at close to 40'!!! (this little nugget stuck in my brain since Junior High geography class).

Campsite in Fundy NP

taken from a campsite on bluff over bay

hard to imagine this boat will be at dock level

Driving North along the coast to  Flower Pot Rocks located at Hopewell, NB, you can walk down 100 stairs to the ocean floor during low tides. In the distance, across the bay, Nova Scotia is easily visible.

beach on way to flower pot rocks

on ocean floor, to be covered by 40' of water in 6-8 hours

Flower Pot Rocks

more flower pot rocks!

view from top of stairs

Our second day at Fundy NP allowed us time to hike Dickson Falls. This was a nice moderate trail that Cooper and CJ gave two paws up.

Dickson Falls

Nice hike of about 1 mile total

Many different species live in the small gorge compared to the surrounding area.

This was followed by a drive to the former logging town of Point Wolfe.

this area used to be full of logs for shipping along the east coast

Along the way we again stopped at a set of the Red Chairs. The NP places at points with  interesting views. We saw three other sets of Red Chairs while at Fundy NP.

Red Chairs near Point Wolfe, NB

The afternoon found us making a 1.5 hr drive South to the Fundy Scenic Drive (think Blue Ridge Parkway along the  bay, several hundred feet above the  water). All well worth the trip and quite beautiful.

well worth the view

Now back in the states with phone service again!. We stopped at Camden for a few days to regroup, do some PM items and then on to the next stop which hopefully will include some great Fall foliage!!

Camden Hills State Park

Cooper and CJ