New Brunswick

Today we took an extra big bite of the Canada landscape. After an early morning start we traveled 450 miles through the entire length of the province of New Brunswick. It wasn't typical freeway which was nice and the smaller roads gave us the opportunity to enjoy the various sights and signs along the way. We saw quaint villages, rolling hills spotted with yellow dandelions, church steeples galore but not one single moose sighting.

By the late afternoon we reached our destination, the Bay of Fundy, where the world's highest and lowest tides take place 2x every day. The tides rise up to 13 vertical feet per hour and can reach up to 46 feet. We were there at low tide and walked around on the ocean floor that hours later was completely covered over with many feet of water.  

We were thinking it was rather mucky looking then we learned that the motion of 160 billion tons of water mixing with the silt from the mud flats makes the water brown. This creates the "Chocolate River" effect, known around the world.

 

I post this picture below to show how crowded the roads were today. It was Saturday of a 3 day holiday weekend for Canadians celebrating Victoria Day, which is is like our Memorial day. With that in mind we had been expecting terrible traffic but as you can see, not so. Thank you Lord for open roads and uncrowded byways.

We ended the day with a sweet campsite next to Ponderosa Lake. We heard there is a 4 foot snapping turtle who lives in the lake but we're not going to lose any sleep over that. Time to rest!