Been a little while since I posted, we've been running around a fair bit. We're on a 3 hour ferry ride, so I thought I'd get the blog caught up.
Since last time, we drove to Moncton ... way to early in the morning ... and did a tour of the city. Moncton wasn't really all that impressive, basically a small city. The tidal bore is kinda neat, but we didn't get the chance to actually see it happen.
The next day we did our marathon tour of the Bay of Fundy. The tour was run by Roads To Sea, Basically they take groups (in our case, us plus one young woman from Sweden visiting Canada for 2 months), around the area via a large van. The tour runs from Moncton down the coast to the Fundy National Park and back, with a running commentary and fairly frequent stops at particularly picturesque spots. The tour was great, the guide knowledgeable and funny, the vistas breath taking and the phenomenon of the Bay of Fundy tides was a reminder of just how small we are compared to mother nature.
From Moncton we drove to Saint John, not St. John's, which is where the ferry to Nova Scotia leaves from. We walked around uptown Saint John for a day, constantly getting asked if we were from one of the two cruise ships docked there that day and ducking in and out to avoid the rain.
The next day we decided to go whale watching, the boat leaves from Saint Andrews by the Sea, which is a small town very close to the border with the US. The whale watching tour was great. We saw a bunch of hump back whales, including a mother and her calf. The calf was feeling playful when we arrived, breaching the surface, rolling over onto his back and waving at us with a fin. The only pity was that the last of the batteries on my camera died about half way through the tour.
And that takes us to today, we're playing cards and updating the blog on the 3 hour ferry ride from Saint John to Digby. Free wireless FTW.
See you all soon, we'll be flying back to Toronto on Sunday.
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