Acadia
Trip Start
Jun 26, 2010
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Trip End
Aug 31, 2010
New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
Thursday, July 29, 2010
After Quebec City, we continued on north to Riviere-du-Loup, next to the river that borders New Brunswick. We spent our first night in Campbellton, in the Bay de Chaleur. Everyone seems to boost that the Bay has some of the warmest water in the Atlantic, but I think that they held their thermometers upside-down. We decided to travel along the coast, on the Acadian Trail. Stopping on the Acadian Peninsula for the night, we found a restaurant for our first "Seafood Supper". We ate at the marina, in a cutesy little place. I got the biggest plate of shrimp I have ever seen. We continued on our way the next day, and then we traveled down the Acadian trail, which fallowed the cost of New Brunswick. Later we went to a campsite on the Acadian Isles where we stuck our feet in the ocean for the very first time. That same day, after supper we took out the kite because it was very windy by the ocean. We tried to fly our kites, but more than once they ended up in the water... When we were finished playing with the kite it was 9;30 and we were all ready for bed. The next morning we went to the same beach to go see the tide. If we were at the same spot as we were last night we would have had the water up to our knees. After that we packed up and and left and kept driving. We kept driving and driving until we reached Shediak, which is the lobster capital of the world! For me thought, lobster was gross but everyone else thought it was good. Then that afternoon we went to the big lobster (which is the biggest lobster in the world!) Papa expected us to take a family picture with it but luckily I got out of it. -Celina
One thing we did notice was that the houses along the coast of New Brunswick would sport five point stars. Thinking the stars symbolized their Acadian pride, we didn't question it. Only when we learnt that the stars are used a hex to ward off evil spirits did we investigate. Farmers use them as a symbol of luck. The different colors are used for specific wishes. We see brown and rusted colors most often. Although many of the stars we see are only used as decorative accents. Another thing we see hanging outside of New Brunswick homes is their underwear. Almost every house we drive past seems to have their laundry hanging out on the line, and they leave nothing for the dryer. The amount of granny panties and boxers we see would be shocking to any westerners, but out here "anything goes!" -Mercedes
Comments
Your drive along the Acadian coast sounds both idyllic and relaxing... ahh... summer along the Atlantic coast... what could be better?!!! :)
Hey wht's up Just reading your blog (finally) sounds and looks like lots of fun. did you fall off acliff in New brunswick. I don't get anything more.
Keep having fun