Aug 22, 2012 - Fundy Bay & The Fundy Trail

Day 10, Wednesday, August 22, 2012, Along the Fundy Trail. Spent a leisurely day driving from St. John to Fundy National Park, but never made our destination. Covered about 65 miles and decided to camp at a site on the shore of the Bay of Fundy, at St. Martins, NB. Drove the Fundy Trail, 20 well-maintained miles one way to its end, and then back. Very scenic, except it is EXACTLY like driving along the North Shore. Only difference is the tidal change, for which the Fundy Bay is noted. Saw many tour buses and taxies with couples or groups,...

Aug 12, 2011 - Fundy Trail and A Bright Full Moon

We got up this morning and found out we could wash the RV at this park. So after a few buckets of soapy water, the RV looks great--also got rid of about 3000 miles of bugs! So, prior to lunch we decided to head out to the Fundy Trail--a scenic drive along the Bay of Fundy. Then the sea fog or marine layer started blowing in. We decided to go ahead and try the trail. The fog came and went and then returned. The land and sea scenes were really striking with the fog. After that we headed home and took a break. Around 6 pm the fog broke and we...

Aug 11, 2011 - Canada OH Canada

We had a great day driving to Canada. The clearance leaving Canadain Customs was only 12' 6"---The RV is 12' 9"! So they had to stop traffic to let us wiggle around a few cars. Otherwise we would still be in the USA! We are in St. Martins, New Brunswick on the Bay of Fundy. We can see the Bay outside our rear window. The highest tides in the world are in the Bay of Fundy. More exploring tomorrow. The previous day in Acadia, it rained all day--not to bad since we did laundry, went food shopping, got fuel for the truck, and generally...

Jul 4, 2011 - St. Martins New Brunswick Canada

After we left Woodstock we stopped at Kings Landing, a site where Loyalist came when they immigrated to Canada. This village was moved when the St John river was damed up. We continued onto to St Martins a wonderful village on the Bay of Fundy. From here we visited the Fundy Parkway Trail - a wonderful trip along the Bay of Fundy coast line. We also visited the Fundy National Park and waked the ocean bottom to the caves near St. Martins. We drove to the Quaco Head Lighthouse, there we saw the rocks we could see from our RV site. St. Martins...

Jun 5, 2011 - Fundy Trail and St Martins

We left Fredericton and headed east to the small hamlet of St Martins on the Bay of Fundy, home of the World’s Highest Tides. The original name of the community was “Goolwagagek” a Micmac word meaning “haunt of the hooded seal” which was later translated to Quaco by 1762. In its time St Martins was the third largest producer of wooden sailing ships on the eastern seaboard of North America.The last vessel was launched in 1919. Our campground was just on the edge of the village and we had great views of the Bay of Fundy and the local sea...

Sep 9, 2010 - St. Martins

Today, waking up to semi-clear skies,we decided to head to St. Martins, a tiny community about 40 KMS from St. John, on the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Back in the days of sail it was the home of many ship building firms and over 500 sailing vessels had been built there. It seems that every road in the Maritimes leads to a Tim Horton's, and sure enough we just so happened to come across one. So after the required coffee we continued on our way to St. Martins. Today St. Martins major draw is the twin covered bridges,the St. Martins caves,...

Aug 3, 2010 - Bay of Fundy

Sunday, August 1: St Martins We had a super campsite at Century Farm Campground in St Martins, right on the ocean by a long rocky beach with red rock cliffs. St Martins is known for its “world famous” chowder, so we had to at least visit the restaurant even if neither of us had the chowder. The outdoor deck overlooks the “Caves” where we saw kayakers exploring at high tide, and busloads of people walking at low tide. The Fundy Trail is a section of road that is being developed to display the beautiful scenery of the coastline. Many stops...

Jul 25, 2010 - NB Bay of Fundy

Stopped at a beautiful campground right on the Bay of Fundy, twisty turny road to get here but worth the trip. Fog and fog horns for most of the day and the smell of the ocean. We even have cable to watch the race in Indy today. Jamie MacMurray won in a very good action packed race. We even had our race day breakfast at a Timmies of course before we set up camp for the day. Walked along the beach and took some pixs and listened to the waves roll onshore in the evening. Off to get the new helmet in the morning.

Jul 9, 2010 - St. Martins, NB - Century Farms Campground

Our trip from St. John to St. Martins took us about an hour to traverse the 29 miles. The Mothership also got her first opportunity to handle a 13% grade and handled it beautifully. It was only about a mile and a half but she came down it in second without breaking a sweat. We are staying in Century Farms Campground and have a nice, large, full hookup site with a great view of Fundy Bay and we can see the caves from the campground. The satellite setup was quick and easy. The campground has WiFi but it is too far to our site to connect so I...

Aug 27, 2009 - St Martins, New Brunswick, Canada

We've had a great time at Bar Harbor. Now we are moving into Canada this afternon. We had a great time at Bar Harbor. Now we are moving into Canada. Our trip into Canada was quite easy. We stopped to stay a few days on the coast of New Brunswick at St Martins. This is just east of St Johns a little on the Bay of Fundy. The Bay of Fundy is famous for the highest tides in the world. Where most ocean tides are 3 to 5 feet, here in the Bay of Fundy tides are from 32 to 45 feet.

Aug 14, 2009 - St Martin's Rest Time

We've been in St Martin's for three days now and enjoying our rest time. We walked yesterday for miles along the beach in the morning the weather was fantastic. We've have been meeting lots of people here and having great campfires in the evenings. The morning sunrises have been absolutely beautiful a brillant orange it's hard to stay in bed you want to just get up and sit and watch it rise. The song "Oh how great is our God" comes to mind each time I see the sunrise that he could of created something so beautiful. We have met a couple from...

Aug 11, 2009 - Back In St Martins, New Brunswick

We left Hubbards Nova Scotia at eight this morning and arrived in St Martins New Brunswick at around one. It was an easy drive and very relaxing. We will be here until Sunday then leave for the States where we will spend the next 18 months travelling around starting in Maine then heading over to Vermont, New Hampshire then down into the New England states then into Florida for the winter. We decided that we wanted a rest period before heading out because we figure we'll be pretty busy and on the go for the next couple of months. Brian said...