Canada 2014: Funday National Park

We spent today, Thursday, September 18th exploring Fundy National Park and the surrounding area.

The day started with a stop at a small bakery called Kelly’s Bake Shop.  Here we picked up a fresh hot batch of sticky buns.  This amazing little shop produces, on a busy day in the summer, over 3,000 buns each day, along with other assorted baked goods.

Then we drove out to Wolf Point, only to have the road closed before we got to the covered bridge.  Wolf Point was once a huge and thriving logging and lumbering center.  I did grab a picture of the red covered bridge.  We also hiked to Dickson Falls.

Dickson Falls

Covered Bridge on the road to Wolf Point.

We had lunch at the Alma Lobster Shop.  We each ordered seafood chowder, and was it ever good!!

After lunch we stopped at the beach at Cape Enrage.  The wind was fierce, which is probably why it is called Cape Enrage.

Then on to Hopewell Rocks.  Just as we got to Hopewell Provincial Park, it started to rain.  The tide was out, so we decided to take a beach walk anyway.  Boy, did we get wet.  We didn’t stay long, but we did get to appreciate how much the tide changes here.  The difference between low tide and high tide is in the order of 35 to 45 feet, depending on the position of the moon.  These are some of the largest tides in the world.

Dinner was at the Tides Restaurant in Alma.  We had met the chef, Marc Casey the night before.  The dinner was extraordinary.  Al and I ordered sautéed scallops.  Susie had Parmesan Halibut, and Judy ordered a seafood marinara over pasta. All the dinners have been put on our ten best dinners ever list.

Friday we leave Fundy and make the drive to Bar Harbor, Maine.