We had rain today on and off and now it’s pouring all through the night.

We wanted to go up the coast to Fundy National Park area. It is a long drive but we saw 2 lighthouses, some flowerpot stacks in the sea, and marshland, and forests. We went along the scenic byway that is lovely but slow going. This was a very remote part of the coast and looked dramatic with grey skies. ( would have preferred sunshine and blue skies though!)

The stacks can be walked round at low tide. We really wanted to see them at low tide too. But we would have to wait 4 hours at least! Never mind ….

We talked to some interesting people about the environment and Trump and USA and effects to Canada and the world!

Hope you like the chairs I am sitting on. You see a lot of these everywhere in Canada.

We are in the east of Canada now. We left a town called Calais in Maine and crossed over the river (that marked the border) and entered Canada at a town called St Stephen.

We followed the scenic coastal road rather than going on the motorway and enjoyed the coastal views. A deer crossed the road in front of the car at one town. We saw many eagles in the sky.

We are having lighthouse withdrawal symptoms! Also there are no signs for lobsters here!

They mostly seem to be advertising blueberry pies, jam and wines.

We are treating ourselves to a steakhouse dinner tonight. The first one so far!

So it’s warm windy and about 72*f inland and about 65*f on the coast. The sea must be cold!

We are here for 4 nights and hope to see a “reversing tide” at falls view, more news later when we understand the tide times. Also we may go whale watching too.

Our best Western plus hotel has a pool. My mosquito bites are better and gone for now. All is good.

Love

On our last day here we travelled to the other peninsular, also in Acadia NP. It was very different. It was uncommercialised and natural. There were bays and small working harbours all along the shore line. The water was so clear and the surrounding rocks were flat and orangey coloured.As we travelled further on the beauty was so overwhelming. The sun was warm and there was hardly any people around.

I even did some scary rock climbing! Although it doesn’t look too scary on the photoMaine blueberry ice cream is yummy!Here are more images of the flat orange rocks and iris grow there tooWe saw another lighthouse

We ended the day back in Barr Harbour and this is the Margaret Todd sailing ship. xxxxxxx love you all xxxxx

Lazy day at Acadia National Park.

We woke up to rain for a change. We headed into Barr Harbour to buy me some trainers and have a coffee. The coffee was very nice but very expensive. ( dad says Matthew remember St Marks Square prices? Well it was almost there, won’t go to that place again!!)

Louis and Otis see if you can spot Grandad and Grandma in any of these photos…

We explored more of the Acadia Mount Desert area and gradually the rain and grey skies cleared. By afternoon we had sunshine and blue skies again. We had haddock sandwich for lunch! Then we went to sand bay and relaxed in the sun.

Eventually we went round the loop road and up to the top of Cadillac Mountain. It had almost 360* views of Arcadia and well worth going up there.

We spent a lovely early evening around the coastal walk at Barr Harbour and now we are back at the motel and doing our washing!

We had a long but relaxing day

Hope you are all enjoying the heatwave in Britain and hopefully Netherlands

Xxxxx

We are now near Acadia National Park.

We had a good journey here and have left the rain and impending thunderstorms behind us. We have warm sunny weather again and a nice motel. We were wondering what it would be like but we’re pleasantly surprised! Our room is very big and clean. There is a swimming pool and a guest laundry, so we have all we need. We did a little loop of the park this afternoon and it is lovely. There were lots of visitors though as it is the weekend and the schools ave all just broken up for summer. It should be quieter tomorrow I expect. There are beaches and walks along and into the hills.

I’m a bit wary of walking through woodland at the moment as my leg has loads of nasty bites on it. Trust me!

We took a few photos today and hope you like them. We are both sticking to our diets so far so good. New England has been good so far.

We are noticing more French speakers here as we’re closer to Canada.

Hope you are all ok, keep in touch

Love from both of us xxxx

It is market day in Bath. There were farmers stalls and jazz players, people signing petitions about Trump keeping children apart from their parents (illegal immigrants) it was very much a community event. The coffee shop nearby was a real part of the local community too.

So today we set off to find more lighthouses, it seems that’s the done thing round here ha ha!

We parked the car and walked a mile to a disused lighthouse. We walked through woods near to the river and saw ground squirrels, deer, wild turkeys,osprey and mosquitoes. They found me very tasty as usual!

As we got back to the car it started to rain slightly so we set off for Portland a huge town and port. We wandered around the port and then it started pouring down. We set off for nearby Cape Elizabeth and captured more lighthouse photos. It’s the first rain we’ve had and the temperate has dipped by 20*f !

I’ve sussed out how to upload photos at last! Hope you like them and the others that I’ve managed to include in past blogs this week.

It was the longest day yesterday and the sunset here at 8.20pm ! Much earlier than in Thornbury.

Today we visited 3 Maine lighthouses. All completely different and in different environments.

The first one was Pemaquid. It was built on top of long lines of rocks that were good fun to clamber over. There was lots of ops for photography and we had a seafood omelette here. Crab,lobster and prawn in a 2 egg omelette mmmmmm!

Grandad asked for a 2 scoop ice cream. We each got enough to feed a family! We learnt our lesson, only ask for kiddie size in future.

Next we went to owls head lighthouse. It was high above the path and had wooden steps up to it. From the viewing platform we were so lucky to see a cutter sailing ship with all sails full with the wind.

6 miles away was another lighthouse.Rockland Breakwater lighthouse We had a miles walk along a causeway across the harbour to reach it. It was good fun walking all the way right into the sea. When we reached the lighthouse it was too scary to walk up the steps as it was high tide and we didn’t risk falling into the water. Again we saw sailing ships and chatted to people who loved the way we speak! They guessed we were Australian.

A tiring day but delightful, we’ll sleep well with the exercise and sea air.

A market day tomorrow and another lighthouse or 2 xxxx

We weren’t sure about going to this botanical garden but it was well worth the money and journey. We spent 5 hours there surrounded by beautiful landscaped gardens with different themes. The children’s garden was sheer delight for all ages. We went for a long walk through the woods down to the estuary, all part of the gardens. There was a bus back up the hill but we walked back too. We are doing so much exercise!

On the way back we followed a track through woodland with our car to a little lighthouse. It was a mystery tour to find it.

Again we have warm sunny windy weather. The views are amazing over the rivers and inlets. We visited Brunswick too, the nearest town to our hotel . Photos as and when?!

Today we left the Boston area and took the coastal road north through Massachusetts, New Hampshire and then into Maine. We are now at Bath in Maine. All along the coast there are little and long beaches and inlets full of boats. Lots to see and take in. We are staying in the Days Inn Bath for 4 nights now.

I am writing this up this up but having probs uploading photos. So I’ll persevere and update as I work out what is wrong. I’ll keep writing my blog so wish me luck.

Another warm sunny day with a warm breeze again.

Love to you all xxxx

We set off at 8.30 for Boston and pleased we did for the traffic bothin and then later as we left was horrendous. BUT we were really pleased to visit the city, it was so lovely.

We went on the trolley bus for a tour of the city and all the major buildings and sites were pointed out to us.

Its been a sunny and very windy day; very hot but not humid like it was yesterday.

we had a lovely light lunch on the harbour front. I had a delicious chowder and grandad had mussels. Then we both had a salad. Im trying very hard to eat  healthy food.

We hope you like the photos weve uploaded. When we return to boston at the end of July we hope to visit cape Cod.

lots of love from us both xxxxx