Fredericton and Back

The historical village that we wanted to start off with today does not open until tomorrow, so we decided to make a loop today and come back here and take it in tomorrow. We stopped in St. Stephen, home of Ganong chocolates and their museum. Unfortunately, they were still completing some renovations and were not opening until Monday. (Is this starting to sound familiar?) Nevertheless, the store was open and we bought a few chocolates.







From there we went on to St. Andrews. This is a very pretty and quaint old resort town near the US border. It would be a great place to spend a week or two, as there were so many things to see and do in the tour book. We took in an old blockhouse from the War of 1812. There were many interesting original and reproduction artifacts and the interpreters told the story well.







Before we left, I took this picture of the shore as the tide was going out. Later we returned and took this picture near low tide.






























The next stop was the Kingsbrae Gardens. Although there were not a lot of exotic specimens, there was a huge variety of familiar plants well organized and arranged. Celeste found this oversized chair there.






















On the way back to Fredericton via the Fundy Coast, we stopped at the Atlantic Salmon Interpretive Centre. It was pretty interesting, explaining the salmon life cycle and migration. They had an aquarium enclosure containing live salmon in the nearby creek. We returned to the hotel at 6:30.



Today was again near 20 degrees with a breeze. It was quite cool near the water and a couple of times fog banks rolled in. The terrain was heavily forested again, as it has been everywhere we have been. It is very pretty country, but not as spectacular as the Rockies or the West Coast. You don't have height of view and the contrast of the mountains, forests and trees. The land is hilly, but they are not very high. And the view from the road is usually obscured by trees. You rarely see the ocean from the road, unless you are right on the shore. I believe that it is more mountainous farther west in the Appalachians, but we will not bo going that way.