16/09: Kouchibouguac --- Say That Fast or Even at All
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Kouchibouguac (not an easy word to say) National Park is about an hour north of Shediac on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Kouchibouguac is a Mi'kmaq word that means "rivers of long tides". Established in 1969, the Park protects square 238km of marshes, forests, bogs, coastal dunes, estuaries and rivers. To the park visitors this is a playground of beaches and bike trails.
Not that Ed and I have visited a lot of national parks in past few years but this one has features we're not accustomed in public parks. The campground is large with big sites (pretty normal) and some of the sites have three services ---- water, electric and sewer (unusual). Unfortunately, cell phone coverage is not very good to non-existent but wi-fi is actually pretty good (at least when the park isn't too busy). We were told they have "broadband service" so not blindingly fast but not too bad either.
There are 60 km of bike trails in the park, so Ed unloaded the bikes from the trailer for the first time this trip and we set off to explore the park.
Across the river from the main campground and still in the park is an active fishing port.
The parks services people do find great spots to put the red chairs. This park also put up sign posts by the chairs indicating distances to other national parks.
There is a huge coastal dune that is linked to the mainland by a 1.2 km boardwalk.
There is a long beach on the dune for park visitors to enjoy.
We think this little guy is a member of the woodchuck family.
My "art shot". A cute mushroom.
It is was really nice to ride around the park. The trails are mostly flat though there were several unexpected downhills followed by uphills, very wide and covered in pea gravel. Using the distances indicated on the park map I think Ed and I road just over 30 kilometers. On top of that we did a some walking. No wonder I was tired when we returned to the trailer.
Not that Ed and I have visited a lot of national parks in past few years but this one has features we're not accustomed in public parks. The campground is large with big sites (pretty normal) and some of the sites have three services ---- water, electric and sewer (unusual). Unfortunately, cell phone coverage is not very good to non-existent but wi-fi is actually pretty good (at least when the park isn't too busy). We were told they have "broadband service" so not blindingly fast but not too bad either.
There are 60 km of bike trails in the park, so Ed unloaded the bikes from the trailer for the first time this trip and we set off to explore the park.
Across the river from the main campground and still in the park is an active fishing port.
The parks services people do find great spots to put the red chairs. This park also put up sign posts by the chairs indicating distances to other national parks.
There is a huge coastal dune that is linked to the mainland by a 1.2 km boardwalk.
There is a long beach on the dune for park visitors to enjoy.
We think this little guy is a member of the woodchuck family.
My "art shot". A cute mushroom.
It is was really nice to ride around the park. The trails are mostly flat though there were several unexpected downhills followed by uphills, very wide and covered in pea gravel. Using the distances indicated on the park map I think Ed and I road just over 30 kilometers. On top of that we did a some walking. No wonder I was tired when we returned to the trailer.