We got another early start this morning to leave St. John, since we got to see both tides yesterday. We were on the road about 8:30, heading on Hwy. 1 to St. Stephen, then crossed the border and picked up "Coastal 1" in Maine. As we drove out of the campground, I took a picture of the best moose we saw in Canada; this one lives right here in this park where we are camped.
As we crossed the River in Saint John, we saw a Carnival cruise ship in port, Splendor we think was the name of it.
It started sprinkling just as we were leaving the campground, and then
set in and rained just about all day. We were going to stop and fuel
just before we left Canada to use the last of our Canadian cash, but it
was raining and just nasty outside, so we just kept going. We even had
the heater on in the RV. It stayed in the 60s all day.
We got to the border crossing about 10:15 (9:15 Eastern time). We didn't have any problems crossing the border, although the guard did board the RV, asked us some questions and looked in the refrigerator and back in the bedroom. Took about 5 minutes. I think he just wanted to come in out of the rain.
As we drove through the little town of Mathais, Joe spotted twin waterfalls on his side, so he pulled into a parking lot for us to take a better look. We were actually looking for a soda stop, but he never found that. We did see a few other small "roadside" waterfalls along the way, I'm sure due to the rain.
We found a campground about 25 miles from Bar Harbor, right on Frenchman Bay. We pulled in there at 12:10 EST, got set up, and were in for the afternoon. Or at least for a while. I got caught up on the computer now that we are back in the U.S. and I can use my hotspot, then I took a nap. Joe spent the time on his Notebook, checking out the area. Once I got up from my nap, we took a little drive (of course). Our campground, Mountainview Campground, is also an antique store, so we walked around in it and talked to her about extending another night. We may have to change sites, but she was waiting to hear from someone coming in today so we never did find out.
Finally, we left there and headed out for a short drive. We didn't take Lucille with us (Joe said, "we didn't have out get out of jail free card with us") so we only went about 10-15 miles in each direction. We drove back one road that said "Tidal Falls," but I think it was another one of those reversing rapids areas. We did see some river otters again.
We also walked the rocky beach, looking for seaglass. No seaglass, but I picked up another couple of rocks and a few seashells.
It was misty rainy and very foggy. On the way back, we stopped at Tracy's Seafood, right next to the campground, for some chowder for dinner (seafood for Joe, corn for me), and by the time we got back to the RV it was so foggy on the Bay that we could hardly see the water. We were in for the night this time. Joe defrosted the refrigerator, and I started on this blog. We may have to turn the furnace on tonight, it's supposed to get down in the 50s.
We are glad to be back in the U.S., where our $$ works, gas comes in gallons, not Liters, and our phones are back to full use. But Canada was good, and we saw a lot of very interesting places and things. We enjoyed it and are very happy that we made the trip.
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