St John to Clifton,

St. John, New Bruswick to Clifton, Maine
Today it was time to say goodbye to St. John, NB and travel now westward and it was a really nice day to start off with. The sun was shining today again and there wasn’t too much wind. Before we left we found right in the campground a really neat lookout where you could see almost all of the surrounding city and harbor. Two tankers were offshore either loading or waiting to come into the harbor and one tanker was in the harbor loading fuel. St. John is a major refinery here on the east coast.
It was a leisurely drive on Hwy 1 thru Canada with side trips on what they call the Bay of Fundy Scenic Drive. It proved to be some spectacular scenes with low and medium tides. Remember when I told you last that the tides here can reach 40’ to 60’ in height. Well while we ate at a bayside restaurant in St. Andrew the tide came up at least 8’-10’ in just the time Bev ate her lobster dinner. Yes she had another lobster feast before leaving NB and she was in heaven.
We crossed the border at St. Stephen and we were still in the Anglican/Baptist/Royalist areas of the country with their small white churches with the small spires and the little villages along the Bay of Fundy.
We are now in Maine and the Hwy changed to Hwy 9 although still the same road. A quick stop at the tourist bureau and we got info on campgrounds. We chose the Park by the Pond in Clifton, Maine and that is where we are tonight. The colors of the trees got dramatically better as we left the warmer costal area and moved farther inland.
Upon arrival we are here for the next to last weekend that the park is open and were immediately invited to their Harvest dinner. We were not planning on a big meal tonight but they had it all here for us to feast on. Turkey cooked trash can style (they put it on an upright spit and then cover it with an overturned galvanized trash can sealed with tin foil. Next barbeque coals are placed all around the trash can for two or three hours and voila you have a cooked turkey. That and all the fixins that go with a harvest dinner including several types of pie other assorted deserts. It seems that most of the folks in the campground are seasonal (they have the space all summer long) and just leave their trailers here for the winter but the campground closes Oct 14.
Well it was good food and company and we were made to feel right at home even though we were only here for the night.
So there you have a life in the day or is it day in the life of these intrepid wanderers. Jist a smile on our faces and a full tummy is all we need to now lay down and go nitey nite.
1 The St John Skyline
2 Bev's Lobster dinner
3 Low tide
4 Higher tide one hour later
5 Harvest Fest dinner