Anna in Canada - Day 2 and 3

Tues, Aug 13

After revisiting the road to Ministers Island this morning at low tide, when we were able to drive across the ocean floor, we went to downtown St. Andrews and made reservations for a "whale watch cruise".

Road to Ministers Island - Low Tide and High Tide

We had already made reservations for a tall ship cruise at 4:30 PM, but the weather indicated that we would be better off taking an early afternoon cruise on a boat with an enclosed cabin, so we cancelled the tall ship cruise and went on a powered catamaran with a cabin.

It has been cool all day, and this afternoon on the cruise it got very foggy.  It ended up that most of our 3 hour cruise was in the fog, but we still got to see several whales.

Tomorrow we start heading South by taking two ferry rides and plan to end up on Campobello Island.

(Hijacked again!)

HEEEEYY!!! Peoples! I'm baaacck! So it was not just a trip to Ministers Island it was a drive across the rocky ocean floor. As we were driving we saw quite a few people digging up something so Mimi just got out and asked "may I ask what you are digging?" The man said that he was digging clams so we got to hear all about the kinds of clams here. He was digging in a bunch of rocks like I mean seriously how do you tell a clam from a rock? They all look exactly the same!!!

Digging Clams on the road to Ministers Island.  He was staying at the same RV park that we are, so we took him some brownies tonight.

Then we went to cancel one whale watch cruise and get on another one. That turned out to be the best choice because we saw 3 whales for quite a while over 30 dolphins, 2 eagles some other birds a jellyfish :( and a tuna. As we were coming in we passed the boat that we would have been on and I say those people looked really cold and miserable. That boat ride was cold!!! But when we all layered some more a snuggled up we were better.

Yes, it's called Seal Island, but there is no island at high tide

We were dressed for the whale watching trip

We saw several whales

According to that paragraph way up there I guess we will start heading south by taking two ferries!!! Imagine Mimi and Papa's RV on a ferry!!! I know great imaginations!

The lobster girl

The lighthouse at St Andrews in the fog

The sailing ship we were supposed to go out on - in the fog - in the cold

Wed, Aug 14

(My blog is still being hijacked by a 12 year old, very imaginative young lady)

So today was pretty cool. We got up early and I showered. Yep... SHOWERED during the day! (I hate doing that) I was just way to tired to do it last night so yep I SHOWERED! We all got ready and were almost to the point of leaving when Mimi and I realized that we had not gotten any rocks from this part of the bay of Fundy, so since it was low tide we went ahead and got some, yep, just walked down at low tide and came up with pieces of the ocean floor. Pretty Cool!

Then we hit the road for a short 1 hour drive to the first ferry. Before getting on the ferry we detached the CRV so that we could get on the ferry without dragging too much. Turns out we should have detached the hitch too because it dragged a little bit but it was OK in the end. While on the ferry we passed by three dolphins playing and got to see them for a while. FUN!

A happy Papa!

The motorhome travels across the Bay of Fundy

So we got off the ferry (again scraping the tow bar) and started to head to the next ferry, just a short drive across Deer Island. We stopped to attach the CRV again and Papa and I decided to go into a little shop to ask for directions. I saw the ice cream they had there and ran right back to the RV. I yelled in “they have soft served vanilla ice cream cones!” that was all it took to get Mimi and I heading back over to the shop. With Papa's wallet!

When we got the ice cream we started to talk to the lady there about where to get the best live lobster. Apparently the only place to go was down this windy hilly road, apparently the road was the best on the whole island. Well their island must have REALLY bad roads because there was lots of potholes and rocks spraying the car the whole time. Good thing we detached the car yet again and left the motorhome at the top of the hill!

Supper!!!!!! I was not thrilled having live lobster... like can't we buy it already cooked?!?

The place to get the lobsters turned out to be a lobster pound... where they ship all the live lobster for the Kroger grocery stores. We got 2 huge lobsters for Mimi and papa and flash frozen lobster meat for me, I did not have it in me to tear the lobster apart. :)

We then took the RV and CRV to the ferry loading place separately because it would be too much work to attach and reattach the CRV. While we were waiting to load we took the hitch off the RV which proved to be a very good decision. When we got on the ferry everyone was able to get out of their cars! Also the ferry place where the captain sits did this super cool thing. Look at the pics below!

The ferry was actually a barge that was pushed across the Bay of Fundy by a tug boat that is attached to the barge and swings around to reverse and steer

We kinda took up most of the ferry.

So while we were on the ferry we saw a few dolphins and a whale!!! we were very excited to see the whale and the views were great! When we were getting off of the ferry the people were really nice and saved us for last so they could move the ferry up a little more so the back of the RV did not drag as much.

Are we going to get off the ferry on this?

The ramp felt like it was about the same width as the motorhome

We were finally on Campobello Island! We went about five minutes down the road to our RV park. 

One of the coolest signs for an RV park

We were so excited to see that all of the spaces available were absolutely fabulous! We picked a nice long one in the woods away from everyone else. After settling in we explored the island a little which did not take long... it was only 11 kilometers long! There is a real cool lighthouse at the end of the island and at low tide, you can walk to it. It was high tide, so we could not, but we did see a boat come through the channel that you can walk across at low tide.

If we had been here at low tide, we would have been able to walk across the inlet to the light house

When we came back we started a fire and just hung out at the campsite. Around five we finally decided it was about time for dinner. So we had Papa cook the lobsters following Mimi's very articulate instructions, from outside beside the fire. The lobster was AMAZING!! I mean like realllllly good. I split one with Mimi, and Papa ate one all by himself but ate every last piece he could off of his plate. IT WAS GOOD.

I'm not real sure about this!

I think I can!

Yes, I can!

We then went back to the fire and Mimi turned out to be the queen of making campfires! She had that fire going at least 3 feet high and it was very warm for all of us. Papa even took the liberty of hanging up the swing for ME!

The campfire was terrific!

We all sat around the fire and made some s'mores and had a blast. Then Papa and I decided to take a bike ride around the property and found a tether ball in the playground area. You know what that means! It was on! Papa and I played quite a few games but it turned out Papa being taller had quite a few advantages. I'll just stop at that!

We came back and sat around the fire for a little while longer. Then we came in and did some more of our latch hooking. That's all for today, tomorrow will be a big one yet again.... We will be home sweet home in the USA!

Thurs, Aug 15

We start the day in Canada and end the day in the USA.

We got an early start and went to President Roosevelt's summer home on Campabello.  This a beautifully preserved home that the President's family owned and they used as a summer "cottage" - with 18 bedrooms.

Ok this is Anna again... see how weird my head looks? Well the camera was on the auto thingy sitting on the fence. So right before it took the picture PAPA said to get my head in the light and tilted it to that weird angle so just to let the record show... it was not me!!!

We turned right and headed back to the good ole US of A!