The last two days we have been travelling and are now in Brunswick Maine USA

I was too tired to sort out my photos and write the blog yesterday but I’m catching up with things today.

Here are pictures of a heron and  an egret we saw near Yarmouth in the south of Nova Scotia , the day before we left on the ferry.

Our ferry  was very smooth and comfortable. We chatted to an English couple for most of the 2 hour journey and also met a UK man (with a voice box) from Bristol who was cycling round the world. He still has 2 more years to go! He was in his seventies I think.

We arrived by ferry in the fog to Saint John New Brunswick ,late morning. Our hotel was there but we really wanted to go back to Hopewell Rocks. If you remember, when we got there on the Fundy Coast 4 weeks ago the tides were wrong and we got there to see the rocks at high tide…..Well yesterday we had a 4 hour window to explore them while the tide was out. We have a new sat nav and we programmed it  for Hopewell Rocks. We were doing really well time wise and noticed we were going a different route from last time over “rocks road”

To our surprise we ended up on an unpaved road we continued for a couple of miles and took a wrong turn we think…. and ended up on a hilly mud track! So frustrating and bumpy for our backs. We turned round and eventually found a tarmacked road that took us to the main road we needed to be on, We had travelled through a forest!

Nevertheless we did not go back that way. Hope you like the Flowerpot rocks. we were so amazed by them and explored the beach for ages. there were so many people there too, its a very popular venue!

Back in Saint John we refound the fog and it was still thick fog  there as we left this morning.

Today the journey seemed long but it took 4 hours travelling plus stops. We are now in USA and have gained an hour in time.

We briefly visited the nearby coastal islands all joined by causeways and took a few pics.

Hope that lily and Otis enjoy their last at day at school and nursery tomorrow.

xxxxxx