Today we drove to St. Martins from St. Andrews, about 100 miles though we have switched our GPS to km. We are very surprised at the improvement in roads, at least so far. Previously, 10 years ago, the roads were rough going. This year we have had a 4 lane highway for the major roads. The secondary roads were a bit of a challenge.
We arrived at St. Martins and had 2 goals. The first, was to take the Fundy Trail Drive. This is a new road along the cliffs from St. Martins for 19 km. The road will extend further and the plan is to finish the road by 2018. This is a toll road and has some really great views. I feel they need to take a few lessons from the US National Parks. Signage is small, and hard to read from any distance. Some of the turnouts have no signage at all.
This road has many turnouts with several short 1-2 km hikes. We didn’t do any of the hikes but generally enjoyed ourselves. One word of warning, if you don’t like curvy roads with ups and down in the 13%-15% range on average this is not the road for you. I thought I was riding a roller coaster.
After that we went looking for some Sea Caves. These are caves that are full of water at high tide and at low tide you can walk in them. I understand that there is layers upon layers of shells within the caves. Unfortunately we were there when the caves were full of water.
After that we went back to the cg. We finished off our last bottle of US wine and had no idea where to buy wine in CN. Stopped by our neighbors who were having happy hour and asked them. Only at the NB Liquor stores is wine sold. Tomorrow I will keep my eyes open for one of them as we drive.
We chatted with them for about 30 minutes. This is one of the nice things about camping, everyone is willing to share information and make you very welcome.
Tomorrow we don’t have any distance or city goals, just drive until we are ready to pull over for the day. Finding a liquor store and a supermarket will be on our horizon.