NOVA SCOTIA & NEW BRUNSWICK

NEW BRUNSWICK (Saint John, Moncton)
Day 57   Wed July 23
New Brunswick Botanical Garden, Edmundston is a provincial park on 7 hectares and is the largest arboretum east of Montreal. There are exhibits on butterflies, a vegetable garden, rhododendrons, roses, tulips in season, and plants shaped into birds, vases and butterflies. 
There is also an antique automobile museum on the same grounds: $ 21, $19 reduced. 
On the road near the botanical garden. I was kicked out of the parking area near the campground twice. 

Day 58 Thur, July 24
MIGUASHA NATIONAL PARK WHS. Some 370 million years ago, what is today the coast of the Gaspé Peninsula was a tropical estuary. The peaks of the Appalachians lined the horizon. Primitive trees, scorpions and spiders covered the land. In the warm tidal waters, an astonishing variety of fish thrived. Some were spiny, some armour-plated. Others had lungs and pairs of lobe-like fins that enabled them to crawl across mud flats- and enact one of the significant steps in evolution, when fish evolved into four-limbed animals.
In its representation of vertebrate life, Miguasha is the most outstanding fossil site in the world for illustrating the Devonian as the “Age of Fishes”. The area is of paramount importance for its exceptional number and best-preserved fossil specimens of lobe-finned fishes, which gave rise to the first four-legged, air-breathing terrestrial vertebrates – the tetrapods.
We know this today because a two-million-year snapshot of life at the time is preserved in the vibrant fossil beds of the Escuminac Formation, which is exposed in a seaside cliff at Miguasha, on the south shore of the Gaspé facing Baie des Chaleurs. There are some 60 such Devonian period fossil sites around the world. But none matches Miguasha in the abundance of specimens, the quality of fossil preservation, and the representation of evolutionary events for vertebrates. It is the only Devonian site on the World Heritage List.
There is sufficient biodiversity at Miguasha – scores of species of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, algae and micro-organisms – for scientists to have constructed an almost complete picture of Devonian life. But it is the 21 species of fish fossils that made Miguasha famous, none more so than Eusthenopteron foordi, the “Prince of Miguasha,” whose limb-like fins and two-way gills-and-lungs respiratory system gave rise to the modern conception of evolution from fish to four-limbed, land-dwelling vertebrates, or tetrapods.
The Miguasha fossil beds were discovered in 1842. Starting in the 1880s, thousands of fossil specimens were collected and shipped to museums and universities around the world, helping to confirm the site’s scientific importance.
My experience. The most convenient way here was to drive south into New Brunswick and then return to Quebec to see the park. The excellent museum shows exceptional specimens and great explanations. I was the sole person on a tour of the beach with a ranger. There are 8,000 specimens in museums around the world and 16,000 in the museum stores. The 100-metre deep cliff slopes down to the beach. It has sedimentary layers (all the fossils are squeezed flat) and layers of sandstone (where 3-dimensional fossils exist). The cliff is not dug into, and almost all the fossils obtained today are on the beach as rocks fall off the cliff through normal erosion. A park employee scours the beach daily. $20 reduced 

Restigouche Regional Museum, Dalhousie. In a 1924 building, there are fossils from Miguasha, woodworking, a blacksmith, a jail and a lot of eclectic stuff no one wanted to throw out! Donation
ON Grand Anse 

Day 59 Fri July 25
Grande Anse Lighthouse, Grande Anse. On the shore of Chaleur Bay, this very cute LH was built in 1808 and is in the Acadian colours of red, white and blue with a red light. It’s a 4-sided tapering rectangle.
Around were several storyboards about the community – lobster is in season in late summer, snow crab in April-June and herring in the spring (smoked and sent to the Caribbean). 
Historical Acadian Village. Well before Caraquet, this open-air museum has 40 buildings with staff dressed in period costumes that portray Acadian life from 1750 to 1950. A highlight is the Hôtel Château Albert, a reconstructed hotel that burned in 1955. 
An unusual feature is typical Acadian food, and a hotel where one can stay. $19.30 reduced

CARAQUET
Musee Acadien. Photos, a few artifacts, fishing, and ethnology focusing on Caraquet. Only French. $3, $2 reduced.

Lamèque and Miscou islands, DARE. This was a 30 km drive each way. I crossed the bridge and drove around the first community, mostly campgrounds.
Musée Historique De Tracadie, Tracadie-Sheila. In an unusual big old 2-story building with many community agencies (including a large genealogy centre), this has more Acadian history, medical history and ethnography. $6
St. Michael’s Basilica, Miramichi. A monumental 3-nave church with a great rib-vaulted ceiling, lovely stained glass, frescoes behind the altar and a choir with great oak surrounding the altar.
ON the Canadian Tire parking lot in Miramichi.

Day 60 Sat, July 26
Irving Arboretum. Over 35 years, Mrs Jean Irving planted over 5,000 trees, now all full-grown. Park and walk the many paths and roads through the trees. I had to park out on the highway as the entrance was so overgrown. Unfortunately, few trees are labelled. Use Google Photos. Free
Giant Lobster, Shediac. A very realistic lobster in a park before a bridge. Made of reinforced concrete, the 50-ton lobster, built over 3 years ending in 1990, is 10.7 m long and 5 m high, sitting on a 32-ton pedestal. A fisherman dressed in yellow and blue is looking out to the horizon. Bizzarium
Campbell Carriage Factory Museum, Sackville. The Tantranar was a saltwater marsh that was dyked and drained by the Acadians and improved by the British after 1755 and the expulsion. They created the best farmland in the province – the world’s largest hayfield. The Campbells made hay wagons and many other kinds of one-horse carriages from about 1850 to 1951, when they closed. There are two floors of tools and machines (including a saw run by horses), three carriages, a functioning blacksmith shop, and the remains of a funeral home, including some great hearses. Free
Fort Beausejeur, Aulac. Built by the French in 1751, it was captured by the British in 1755, recaptured by the French for one year and played a role in the War of 1812. There are dirt ramparts and some stone walls inside. It was abandoned in 1851. Free 
Amherst. A cute town with wonderful red stone churches, a courthouse and several other buildings.

NOVA SCOTIA (Halifax, Lunenburg)
Nova Scotia was lovely to see, much more interesting than Newfoundland. The architecture was great compared to the vinyl-sided houses in Newfoundland. There are lots of granite in the south and nice seascapes.
Anne Murray Centre, Springhill. (1945-) She is a Canadian retired country, pop, and adult contemporary music singer who has sold over 55 million album copies worldwide during her over 40-year career. Murray has won four Grammys, including the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1978.
Murray was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts and also the first to earn a Gold record for one of her signature songs, “Snowbird” (1970). She is often cited as one of the female Canadian artists who paved the way for other international Canadian success stories such as k.d. lang, Céline Dion, and Shania Twain. Murray is well known for her Grammy Award-winning 1978 number-one hit (in several countries) “You Needed Me”, and is the first woman and the first Canadian to win Album of the Year at the 1984 Country Music Association Awards for her Gold-plus 1983 album A Little Good News.
Besides four Grammys, Murray has received a record 26 Juno Awards, three American Music Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, and three Canadian Country Music Association Awards. She has been inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame, the Juno Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. She is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame Walkway of Stars in Nashville and has her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles and Canada’s Walk of Fame in Toronto.
In 2011, Billboard ranked her 10th on their list of the 50 Biggest Adult Contemporary Artists Ever. $10, $9 Reduced

Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum. Art, simulators and a hangar of 25 planes. The ultralight was interesting. Donation 
ON the Canadian Tire lot

Day 61 Sunday, July 27
HALIFAX
Museum of Natural History. Forest, marine and animal exhibits. $10, $9 reduced
Halifax Public Gardens. Very manicured lawns, beds and mature trees. Free
Lord Nelson Hotel. Built in 1928, it has a very modern lobby, wood and steel banisters.
Halifax Central Library  , featured in Architectural Delights, boasts a rotated floor and elevated floor with extensive glass. It incorporates numerous sustainability features.

Halifax Citadel. This is the fourth citadel built by the English in 1856 (the first was built by the French in 1749). It protects the Halifax Harbour, which is 35 km long, 3.2 km wide, and 76 m deep. Good history of Halifax and the Halifax explosion (Dec 6, 1917, a Norwegian relief ship struck a French munitions ship and 2925 tons of explosives produced a blast, the largest until the atomic bomb. 1600 were killed, 9,000 wounded, and 6,000 were homeless. Walk the ramparts and explore the several museums on site. Free
Saint Mary’s Cathedral Basilica. With a white stone front and brick back, it has high arched vaulted ceilings, great stained glass (including the dome above the altar). The W of the C was an oil painting.
The Split Crow Pub. On July 17th, 1749, Governor Cornwallis granted a license to sell beer and liquor to a Mr. John Shippey. This was the first liquor license to be issued in New Scotland (now Nova Scotia). John Shippey named his tavern ‘The Spread Eagle’, but shortly after opening, the tavern became affectionately known as ‘The Split Crow’.
John Shippey’s ‘Split Crow’, located at the southwest corner of Salter and Water Street, quickly became a second home for sailors, mariners and travellers. It was there that they could expect comfortable lodgings, hearty platters of food and generous mugs of grog. In the tradition of the day, music was played, ladies entertained, politics were discussed, and, inevitably, fights broke out. One of these fights resulted in the first ever murder charge in Nova Scotia.
More than 250 years later, although in a different location, the Halifax-based Split Crow continues to serve mariners and travellers from around the world proudly.
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. A large exhibit on Maud Lewis with her cabin in situ. Blacklight was the exhibit on the second floor: $ 15, $12 reduced.
The Westin Nova Scotian Hotel. Dating from 1930, it has a grand lobby. Connected to the VIA rail station.  
Mary E Black Gallery. A small room, unusually, with students’ art. I found the ceramic house fascinating. It is part of a school of fine arts with a significant ceramic component. Free 
Seaport Farmers’ Market. A low-key market with small tables of handicrafts, two small produce stands, and minimal food.
Nova Scotia Sport Hall Of Fame. Closed
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic / CSS Acadia / HMCS Sackville and Discovery Centre are not of much interest, and parking for the Maritime Museum is impossible. 

Day 62 Monday, July 28
Since Labrador, I have needed my fuel filter changed. For something that I go down the street for in Courtenay at a third of the price, I may not be able to get it done in Nova Scotia. Several places don’t work on diesels, some don’t have a hoist that can deal with a camper, and some don’t have the filter. My manual makes it sound easy, but one needs a hoist.
In the future, I will be buying a filter to have with me.
I was finally able to find a mechanic, Dale’s Truck Repairs in Dartmouth, who made an effort to accommodate me. I waited all day at various free wifi locations in Halifax and finally drove to Dartmouth to wait it out.
ON Dale’s Truck Repair in Dartmouth. 

Day 63 Tue, July 29
My truck was fixed by 9:30 (cost $111, I was quoted $260 by O’Reagan Chev in Halifax.
PEGGY’S COVE
Park for free at the Visitor’s Centre and walk the 500 m to the LH. Stop at the Fisherman’s Memorial – a 30 m long wall of granite carved with a fisherman, a large angel, a family and several fishermen. Next to it is the de Garthe Gallery, full of lovely paintings by the artist.
I purchased a print of a watercolour of Peggy’s Cove from an artist on the walk to the LH,
Peggy’s Point Lighthouse. A small, lovely white LH, a tapering hexagon to a red light. The setting is idyllic, set on a point surrounded by glacially carved granite. People were everywhere. There was no storyboard. 
Swissair Memorial. On Dec 2, 1998, Swissair 111 (McDonnell Douglas MC 111) on a flight from New York to Geneva crash landed in the ocean 8 km off the coast (the location is at the point of an equilateral triangle with the base between Bayside and Whale Rock. All 215 passengers and 14 crew died. Flammable material used in the aircraft’s structure allowed a fire to spread from the entertainment system. The local communities participated in the recovery. The monument consists of two round pieces of light gray granite placed on their side where the unidentified remains were buried. One has three notches on it. There is no storyboard with the people’s names—the Dark Side.

MAHONE BAY
LUNENBURG
OLD TOWN LUNENBURG WHS. Lunenburg is the best surviving example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. Established in 1753, it has retained its original layout and overall appearance, based on a rectangular grid pattern drawn up in the home country. The inhabitants have managed to safeguard the city’s identity throughout the centuries by preserving the wooden architecture of the houses, some of which date from the 18th century and constitute an excellent example of a sustained vernacular architectural tradition. Its economic basis has traditionally been the offshore Atlantic fishery, the future of which is highly questionable at present.
My experience. I saw all the NM sites and drove around a lot. All the houses are immaculate Victorians. It would have been nice to have the Blue Nose at its home port. 
Lunenburg Academy Foundation. A grand 3-story white shingled building with black trim, it was the town school built in 1895 (maximum size 670 students. Most of the buildings are community offices, a library and a restored one-room classroom that derided the loss of cursive. The upper two floors (one now a performance hall) were closed. Wood doors, casings, and high ceilings were lovely. It stopped being a school in 2012. Architectural Delights. Free
Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. Exhibits on the Bluenose, the Atlantic Destiny, the lobster fishery and an outfitted dory. $14.50, $12 reduced
Lunenburg Waterfront. This is a short section of pier extending from the museum to the Fishermen’s Memorial. The Blue Nose docks here, and the Picton Castle (a training ship) is parked.
Fishermen’s Memorial. Composed of polished black granite, eight triangular columns surround a central square monument with an inscription. The names of about 70 vessels and the dates of death are listed. In 1827, during “the August Gales,” when a series of storms and one large gale caused the loss of many fishermen’s lives on the Atlantic and Great Lakes, 84 names were listed for 1827. 
St. John’s Anglican Church was closed, but it is a grand church with a tall central bell tower and spires on the corners. A fire in 2001 destroyed part of the church.

I talked to a fellow from a house near the church. Built in 1753, almost everything is original. I was hoping he would invite me inside. He was a wealth of information.
Outside the church, I started talking to a lady from North Carolina who looked interesting. She was a traveller who lived in her van permanently. I thought she was nice, but she turned out to be a radical MAGA and the most closed-minded person possible. We ended up in a shouting match!! The USA is in trouble. She was whacko.
Halifax & Southwestern Railway Museum. Permanently closed.
Blue Rocks. A tiny village at the end of the Lunenburg peninsula. 90% of the deaths in 1827 were from this town: nothing to see but nature.
On the road in Blue Rocks.

Day 64 Wed July 30
Mahone Bay (pop 1,100). A long-standing picturesque tourism destination, the town has recently enjoyed a growing reputation as a haven for entrepreneurs and business startups. The town has the fastest-growing population of any municipality in Nova Scotia, according to the 2016 census, experiencing 9.9% population growth.
It had an active shipbuilding industry until 1971.
White Point Beach Resort, White Point. 90 minutes from the City of Halifax, this year-round, privately owned, Four Green Key property of 800 acres of pristine coastline, including a one-kilometre white sand beach.
White Point was initially built in the late 1920s as a private hunting and fishing lodge. It has since expanded several times. The Main Lodge overlooks the surf of the Atlantic Ocean.
Cape Sable Island. DARE. At the southernmost point of Nova Scotia, it is separated from the mainland by the narrow strait of Barrington Passage, with a causeway since 1949. The largest community is Clark’s Harbour. Other communities are listed below. At the extreme southern tip is Cape Sable.
It was first settled by Acadians in 1620 and had an extensive fur trade with the Mi’kmaq and farmed the land. During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), as a result of these Scottish victories, Cape Sable was the only significant French holding in North America.
The pirates Ned Low and John Phillips attack Cape Sabke fishing vessels. The British Conquest of Acadia happened in 1710, but for forty-five years, the Acadians refused to sign an unconditional oath of allegiance to Britain. Acadians had militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to the French Fortress of Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour. The Acadians and Mi’kmaq from Cape Sable Island raided the Protestants at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, numerous times.
Following the Acadian Expulsion in the 1750s, the island was settled by the New England Planters from Cape Cod and Nantucket Island. Many received the unrestricted 50 acres of land. It remains an essential base for inshore fisheries. It is famous for the Cape Islander fishing boat,

YARMOUTH
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Closed 
W. Lawrence Sweeney Fisheries Museum. Don’t miss this wonderfully curated museum. Started in 1923, all the original sheds and shacks on the Sweeney Wharf have been moved to the upper floor. Sweeney made a lot of money during Prohibition. $5, $4 reduced
Firefighters’ Museum. Another great museum with a very knowledgeable manager who gave me a personal tour of the two floors. This is easily the largest exhibit of ancient fire engines that I have ever seen. The oldest is from London (1819), several hand pump engines, two chemical engines (for instance, fire suppression using sulfuric acid, soda and water), several steam-driven pumpers, a rotary engine pumper, hose wagons, and slightly newer engine-driven engines. Other artifacts include helmets, badges, axes and a 60-foot ladder. $5, $4 reduced
Cape Forchu Lighthouse, Cape Forchu. A 6.9 km one-way detour to the end of a peninsula, the original LH dated from 1839. The present 1962 LH is called the “Apple Core” as it is a 23 m tall, slender reinforced concrete column, 1.5 m in diameter to reduce wind resistance. Herb Cunningham, the keeper from 1922-52, climbed the stairs 47,000 times, the same as climbing Everest 100 times.
There is a nice trail around the point.

Brier Island. DARE. This required a 67 km drive each way back along a spit with two short ferries. I hadn’t read anything special to do such a long drive. 

Digby Pines Golf Resort & Spa, Digby. Opened in 1929, this 4-story hotel is tastefully decorated with a vast dining room. There is an outside patio and deck. It is high above the ocean with no access. Most of the cabins are small duplex cabins.
ON Canada Tire in Digby

Day 65 Thur, July 31
Queen Anne Inn, Annapolis Royal. This 3-story grand mansion with a top cupola (Empire Style) was built by William Ritchie originally as St. Andrew’s Boys School and then as a hotel, which it remains. It was closed, but looking through the windows showed a very elegant house.
Greenwood Aviation Museum. This museum could be better curated. A genuine aficionado has developed it – the explanations are overly detailed, and the exhibits are cluttered and busy. The engine cutouts are interesting. The Victoria Cross was introduced in 1847 by Queen Victoria and has been given out 1,351 times, 93 to Canadians (69 in WWI and 16 in WWII). There are several planes and a helicopter outside. Free
Harriet Irving Botanical Gardens, Wolfville. On the Acadia University campus, this mature garden has two lovely fountains, an English garden and a greenhouse. The seven research projects were interesting to read. Free 
Prescott House Museum, Starr’s Point. Charles Prescott was a merchant, legislator, and a pioneer apple grower who built this house in 1847 and died in 1889. It was a nice guided tour of a wealthy family’s home. The house was renovated by his great-granddaughter in 1931. $3.90. $2.80 reduced

LANDSCAPE OF GRAND PRE WHS
Situated in the southern Minas Basin of Nova Scotia, the Grand Pré marshland and archaeological sites constitute a cultural landscape bearing testimony to the development of agricultural farmland using dykes and the aboiteau wooden sluice system, started by the Acadians in the 17th century and further developed and maintained by the Planters and present-day inhabitants. Over 1,300 ha, the cultural landscape encompasses a large expanse of polder farmland and archaeological elements of the towns of Grand Pré and Hortonville, which the Acadians and their successors built. The landscape is an exceptional example of the adaptation of the first European settlers to the conditions of the North American Atlantic coast. The site – marked by one of the most extreme tidal ranges in the world, averaging 11.6 m – is also inscribed as a memorial to the Acadian way of life and deportation, which started in 1755, known as the Grand Dérangement.
My experience. The 30-minute movie was professionally produced and very well done about the Expulsion of 1755-63. 10,000 were deported viciously to New England, France, and Louisiana. Many returned after 1763.
The museum features a notable example of the sluice system and bank construction. Initially, 50 families arrived from 1630 to 1650. There are approximately 3 million Acadians in the diaspora.
Memorial Church. Built in 1922 on the site of the original church, it serves as an auxiliary museum. Exhibits on Evangeline (Longfellow poem from 1847), and six great paintings showing the six big Acadian occasions 

Haliburton House Museum, Windsor. (Clifton Museum Park) was built in the 1830s for Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Windsor native who was one of Canada’s first famous authors. His “Sam Slick” stories won him acclaim around the English-speaking world of the 1840s. Though Haliburton’s famous character was fictitious, the home has also been referred to as the “Sam Slick House” informally for many years. The house was added to during Haliburton’s time, but 16 successive owners also made significant changes to the house until the 1920s. In 1939, the province acquired the home , and in 1940, itopened the site as the Haliburton Memorial Museum.
Though Haliburton auctioned off the property and the contents of the home when he left for England in 1856, the museum does have some furniture and artifacts that belonged to him, including his writing desk. $4, $3 reduced
ON Tim Hortons Windsor 

Day 66 Fri Aug 1
I left at 7 to drive the 2 1/2 hours to the geological museum. I took a lot of narrow roads, and it took over 3 hours.
At a First Nations reserve, I stopped at one of the ubiquitous “smoke shops”. They had no pouch tobacco, and the price of THC was very high and dependent on potency: 25%+ 160/oz, 33%+ 244/oz, much higher than at the Komox reserve in Comox. 
Fundy Geological Museum, Parrsboro. A good exhibit on all geological ages. Panagea, 300 million years ago – the opposing side is the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Lotsa rocks. $8.50 reduced

Return to NEW BRUNSWICK 

JOGGINS FOSSIL CLIFFS WHS
On the coast of the Bay of Fundy, it is the “coal age Galápagos” due to the wealth of fossils from the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago). The rocks of this site are considered to be iconic for this period in Earth’s history. They are the world’s thickest and most comprehensive record of the Pennsylvanian strata (dating back 318 to 303 million years) with the most complete known fossil record of terrestrial life from that time. These include the remains and tracks of very early animals and the rainforest in which they lived, left in situ, intact and undisturbed. With its 14.7 km of sea cliffs, low bluffs, rock platforms, and beach, the site groups remain of three ecosystems: estuarine bay, floodplain rainforest, and fire-prone forested alluvial plain with freshwater pools. It offers the richest assemblage of fossil life in these three ecosystems, comprising 96 genera, 148 species of fossils, and 20 footprint groups. The site is listed as containing outstanding examples representing primary stages in the history of Earth.

MONCTON
Resurgo Place. Has a transportation and local history museum on two floors. The facade of the 1716 City Hall has been relocated here. The major economies were Mack Trucks, a railway hub, biscuits and a woollen mill. The Katcho Bar was recreated. The best thing was the 1:4 scale locomotive and train!!!! $10 reduced
Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral. Built in 1940, it appears much older as the yellow sandstone is very stained (apparently from all the train traffic, the sandstone is too soft to sandblast. Inside is enormous, as the side aisles are pretty broad. It holds 1500, including the balcony. The Ways of the Cross were mosaics. 
Thomas Williams House. Thomas Williams was a prominent Monctonian and the treasurer for the Intercolonial Railway. The house was built in 1883 and remains elegant.
ON Boston Pizza

Day 67-71 Sat-Wed Aug 2-6
These were rest days to prepare for crossing into the USA. I cleaned the inside of the truck and the camper, dumped and got water and propane (1/3 the cost of exchanging tanks) at the Truck Centre, showered, and vacuumed it all. My bicycle was stolen from the YMCA parking lot.
On the Mall lot, mooching wifi from a Boston Pizza, the best source.

Day 72 Thur, Aug 7
SAINT JOHN
New Brunswick Museum. Closed 
Loyalist House. Built in 1820 by David Merrit, a dry goods merchant who had come to Canada in 1783, part of the mass migration of 30,000 loyalists, most from Boston and New York. Most came to NB, fewer to NS, and even fewer to Ontario (where the poorer loyalists went). There were five generations of Merritts in this house until 1959.
It is a white, two-story house built on a rock. It survived the Great Fire of 1877. The tour was great, trying to guess what some very unusual objects were. $5
Saint John City Market. The building is magnificent – brick, with very high ceilings supported by a great wood beam arch system. There are rows on each side with produce and eateries. Down the middle are two rows of knick-knacks. Unfortunately, there were several open spaces.
After stocking up on groceries, I continued south to the US but took two ferries to get to Campobello Island. The first was from L’Etet to Deer Island (free, every half hour but one ferry was down. I was the last vehicle to not get on the first ferry, so I waited almost 2 hours). The ferry from Deer Island to Campobello was privately owned ($25, hourly on the half hour). I had a big nap at the park but had to leave from 9 0m to daybreak. Free wifi.

Campobello Island, DARE: 
Roosevelt Campobello International Park, Welshpool. The Roosevelts first came to Campobello in 1883 when they bought land and eventually built their summer home. FDR came here every year until 1921. The house was sold to the Hammer family of NY in 1952 and eventually purchased by the government. The visitor’s centre has a great account of Canada/US relations (now irreparably harmed?) and the Roosevelt family on Campobello. 
ON across the road from the park.

Day 73, Fri Aug 7
Up early, I stayed in the lovely park until the afternoon.

GO TO USA – Maine