Episode 24
6/2019
So, what we decided as we travel around is we make each stay at least 2 nights. This helps us to slow down and relax. If there is a lot to see it day in an area then we extend our stay as appropriate. Leaving Campobello Island on June 3rd 2019 the customs officer confiscated an hour oranges and garlic. The garlic because it had roots. Both of these items we bought in the USA brought him into Canada and now on the way out there were being confiscated.
They gave us a warning about a $300 fine because we did not claim them. Next to the confiscated contraband they left the blueberries and bananas, go figure. Well we were in Maine we filled our propane and gas tank because we knew once we got the Canada the prices were going to be astronomical. We got to the border crossing again to go to mainland Canada and we claimed our half a bottle of wine. They had us pull over two officers came into the rigs spent a half an hour looking through the whole rig and through the basement. Then they left. We arrived at St John in New Brunswick we stayed at another boondockers welcome location and when we arrived our hosts had made us a loaf of homemade bread. It was early June and it was rainy and cold. We went to the city market in St John and walked around St John proper. He ate at a Thai restaurant which was excellent.
The next day we went to reversing falls as we had this saved on our Google maps as a site to see. EH. Really it's a cascading River not a waterfall. It was not overly spectacular. You watch the water flow one way you came back a couple hours later when the tide changed and you watched the river flow the other way.
The next day we went to the sea caves in St Martin's New Brunswick. we heard this was a quaint town so we headed out there early so we could shop but there was only one gift shop and they were closed but saw us walking so they opened it for us. They told us that a guy across the street had caught a blue lobster which are rare so we took a walk over to see it but we were told it was "on tour" lol. This was during high tide so all you can see of the sea caves were the tops of the caves sticking out of the water.
We went back to the rig at lunch waited for the tide to reverse went back to the sea caves we found a path that took us to the caves and we found that they were huge. To get to the keys we were actually walking on the floor of the Bay which was pretty cool.
Next day we drove up to Fundy national Park. It was $23 a night after the international conversion. We'd love the conversion. For example Canadian gas worked out to about $5 a gallon Canadian but us money converted that down to $3.75 a gallon which was still very high but definitely not $5 a gallon. We found that by buying our national park pass for Canada at the time of checking in for our campsite we saved a lot of money. We got set up in the campground and then we went for a walk to Alma which was 10 minutes away. There were a bunch of shops and restaurants. We had lunch at the brewery well house. We walked back to the RV and the folks that were parked next to us we're telling us about Hopewell rocks they said how beautiful it was. We told them yeah we're going there tomorrow. They explained that when you buy your pass it's $26 but it gets you two days into hope all rocks they'd only spent one day there. So they gave us their pass which was good for the next day win for us. We drove up to Hopewell rocks the next morning we walked on the bay floor. This was an awesome place to see towering rocks with trees growing on top of them cold flower pots. Then walked up had lunch and a glass of wine at the visitor center at that time the tide was now high. So you cannot walk down to the Bay floor because it was under 30 ft of water and rising. This was spectacular to see. Well there we talked to a park ranger and he explained that the amount of water that goes over Niagara falls and in one year and 9...