We made our way down a scenic highway in the fog alongside the Saint John River. Here are some pictures from Perth - Andover -- the library and a bridge over the Saint John River in the fog.
Note -- this little backwards question mark sign we think indicated scenic highway.
Bonuses along the way were the Bristol Shogomoc Railway:
Florenceville Covered Bridge, and the Hartland Covered Bridge, the longest covered bridge in the world at 1282 feet:
(From this point on I'm missing some photos!)
We drove trough lots of woods that were probably hiding moose as they had moose gates for the escaped moose to reenter the woods;
down to a plains where we could see the Bay of Fundy, and the city of Saint John which has a deep and active port, where we saw a couple huge 8 story plus crusie ships.
We saw the Reversing Rapids from the roof of the Falls Restaurant. The rapids are created by the tide coming into the St. John River and rapids are created were the waters meet. We got there at Slack Tide about 11:33 am when the waters were calm.
We ate lunch down in Market Square, a rennovated waterfront area near the cruise ships at Grannon's Pub and Rick finally got his picture by a moose. Rick thought it would be fun to ride the ferries so we found the small ferry landing at Letete (not on any maps but in Rick's Garmin). Waiting in line at the ferry was a truck from Acadian Seaplants, Pennsfield, NB. They have the rights to seaweed around the area and harvest it. The driver told me they just got the rights to the seaweed within a 20 mile radiius of Ireland. We took the ferry with about 8 vehicles to Deer Island at no charge.
We drove around Deer Island to the ferry dock which went to either Eastport, Maine or Campobello Island, NB. The fee was $29 total. This ferry was like a landing craft, came right up onto the beach and we drove on. Right off of Deer Island is the Old Sow Tidal Whirlpool which is the is the largest in the Western Hemisphere.
Once on Campobello, Island, we drove directly to the Roosevelt International Park and went to the visitor's center and found out there are 20 tickets to the Tea With Eleanor in the morning. If we come back at 9:00 am and get in line when they open at 10:00 we might be lucky to get them. We visited the "cottage" that the Roosevelts summered in. This was the 2nd cottage that was purchased from the neighbors when FDR and Elenor's family was growing. They added onto it in 1915. The "cottage" that James and Sara Roosevelt owned (FDR's parents) had been torn down before the park was started.
We drove out to the East Quoddy Head Light House before night fall. There was a $5 fee to walk over to it and $10 to climb it. The tide was out so we could have crossed over but we didn't - we just took our pictures with it in the distant background. The lady manning the ticket shack said that she had just seen a whale surface and blow so we were whale watching for awhile before we headed into Lubec, Maine, over the FDR Bridge. Elenaor came for he dedication in about 1962 - and then died later that fall.
We found our Peacock Bed and Breakfast. What a neat place. Sue and Dennis are the owners. She showed us where we could lounge in the piano room with fireplace, in the study, and in the bar area off the dining room. The house and rooms were spotless. Sue was also very knowledgeable about the area and recommended a local put for supper. We walked a few blocks to it past some nice old homes.
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