09/09: Yeah! More Sun Than Fog
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Take a wild guess about this morning’s weather ---- yup your correct. It was foggy with a bit of rain. We’re packing up and moving about 50 kilometers east along the Bay of Fundy today. Driving trailer friendly roads makes the route just over a hundred kilometres and about 2 hours. As we drive northeast and inland, the skies clear and we actually see the sun but as we drive southeast and nearer the coast the fog returns a bit. We’re staying in a campground in Fundy National Park that is about a 5 minute drive down a very big hill to the village of Alma.
The tide was out when we visited the harbour in Alma. We walked around town checking out the gift shop and restaurants. I was a little surprised by the prices --- $23 for a souvenir T-shirt and $24 for a bowl of chowder and a lobster roll. Seems a little expensive too me but they do have a captured audience here.
Brochures I have read on Fundy NP indicate that Point Wolfe is one of the most scenic areas in the park and as the sun is shining we head out for Point Wolfe. Along the way we stop at Dickson. Falls. A scenic kilometer loop trail takes you to the falls.
The area surrounding the falls and the brook are luscious --- several varieties of ferns and lots of moss makes everything very green.
Just before Wolfe Point is a covered bridge and the start of the coastal trail. Fundy National Park has embraced geocaching and placed a number of caches around the park. There’s a cache less than 600 meters from the start of the costal trail so Ed convinces me to hike to the cache with him. The GPS measures the distance as the crow flies and doesn’t indicate anything about the terrain. Turned out the cache was over 800 meters away following the trail and the first 200 meters felt like they were straight up.
Found it! I did complain going up the hill but it was a nice invigorating hike.
By time we got to the beach at Wolfe Point the fog was beginning to roll in.
In the late 1800’s Wolfe Point was home to both a copper mine and a lumber mill. This is what’s left of the dockage.
Up the coast from Wolfe Point is Herring Cove, home to another thriving community in the late 1800's. Now it’s a picnic area, trail head and a beautiful beach.
Our first wildlife sighting on the trip. This deer crossed the road in front of us and stopped to graze on the golf course. I think it knew it was in the National Park and people wouldn’t hurt it.
I’ll end with a bit of sunshine. The park has down a wonderful job with some flowerbeds.
The tide was out when we visited the harbour in Alma. We walked around town checking out the gift shop and restaurants. I was a little surprised by the prices --- $23 for a souvenir T-shirt and $24 for a bowl of chowder and a lobster roll. Seems a little expensive too me but they do have a captured audience here.
Brochures I have read on Fundy NP indicate that Point Wolfe is one of the most scenic areas in the park and as the sun is shining we head out for Point Wolfe. Along the way we stop at Dickson. Falls. A scenic kilometer loop trail takes you to the falls.
The area surrounding the falls and the brook are luscious --- several varieties of ferns and lots of moss makes everything very green.
Just before Wolfe Point is a covered bridge and the start of the coastal trail. Fundy National Park has embraced geocaching and placed a number of caches around the park. There’s a cache less than 600 meters from the start of the costal trail so Ed convinces me to hike to the cache with him. The GPS measures the distance as the crow flies and doesn’t indicate anything about the terrain. Turned out the cache was over 800 meters away following the trail and the first 200 meters felt like they were straight up.
Found it! I did complain going up the hill but it was a nice invigorating hike.
By time we got to the beach at Wolfe Point the fog was beginning to roll in.
In the late 1800’s Wolfe Point was home to both a copper mine and a lumber mill. This is what’s left of the dockage.
Up the coast from Wolfe Point is Herring Cove, home to another thriving community in the late 1800's. Now it’s a picnic area, trail head and a beautiful beach.
Our first wildlife sighting on the trip. This deer crossed the road in front of us and stopped to graze on the golf course. I think it knew it was in the National Park and people wouldn’t hurt it.
I’ll end with a bit of sunshine. The park has down a wonderful job with some flowerbeds.