Canadian Maritimes travel

We are venturing somewhere that neither of us has ever been!
Heading to the large coastal Maritimes in Canada, via Maine.
This trip will involve long, long hours in the car, but we are breaking it up into several smaller segments. *Follow us daily 🚘 Read more

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September 2, 2023
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Day 1
Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 12:40 PM
☁️ 72 °F
Altitude: 951 ft
United States Bennington Municipal Forest 42.883287, -73.14968442°52’60” N 73°8’59” W
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Oh Canada, here we come!
September 2, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
We are now on the road (Sat Sept 2nd) . Looking for experiences & sights to share with our Family and Friends. Plenty to map out and plan to see... 🗾
Traveler I think we may see a few lighthouses 😅🏮
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Traveler We will endeavor to post some new stuff for you --- nearly every day. **This is pending wifi connectivity.** --- Will love to "have you along for the ride" this way!
8/25/23Reply
BluebutterflyThanks for sharing and "taking" us on your trip with you.
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Day 1
Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 8:01 PM
☁️ 64 °F
Altitude: 89 ft
United States Stillwater Avenue 44.833847, -68.74448344°50’2” N 68°44’40” W
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In for the night / in Maine
September 2, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F
Met our first destination goal, Bangor! Had an excellent, inexpensive Mexican dinner, yum...
Now we and the car can rest, for the night. 😴🛌🥱
Bluebutterfly Yum, yum yummy
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BluebutterflySweet dreams 💤💤🌛😴
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TravelerThanx. Night all 🥱🤤
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Day 2
Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 10:00 AM
☀️ 68 °F
Altitude: 89 ft
United States Thomas DiCenzo Athletic Complex 45.178595, -67.28100245°10’43” N 67°16’52” W
Meeting/Friends in Calais
September 3, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
We attended the Sunday meeting in Calais, Maine. (Pronounced "callus")
It's 2 mins from the Border Crossing 🚸! Made some new Friends 🫂🤗 in the small congregation of 35 publishers.
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Day 2
Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 12:30 PM
☀️ 75 °F
Altitude: 46 ft
Canada Five Corners 45.191627, -67.28765945°11’30” N 67°17’16” W
Welcomed to Canada
September 3, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 75 °F
This was THE fastest border crossing for us. All done ✅ in about 1 minute, no joke!🤣 I think we waited longer in line, maybe 2 1/2 minutes.
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Day 2
Sunday, September 3, 2023 at 8:33 PM
🌙 63 °F
Altitude: 728 ft
Canada Chambers Settlement 45.679081, -65.3081745°40’45” N 65°18’29” W
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Our First Abode
September 3, 2023 in Canada ⋅ 🌙 63 °F
This is quite the unique geodome, right in farm country. We can hear the cows off in the distance right now🐄🐮and the haymaker going back and forth. Lots of open skies, so star gazing will hopefully be good tonight...Read more
Traveler Looking forward to stargazing in here💦✴️⭐
9/4/23Reply
Bluebutterfly I see them when I blow the picture up 😊
9/4/23Reply
Bluebutterfly Is that a functioning " out house" or just a decoration? ☺️
9/4/23Reply
TravelerNope, not outhouse. It's rather tiny (covers the capped well here). It might work if we were Lilliputians 🤣🙊. https://pictures.abebooks.com/inventory/md/md14…
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Day 3
Monday, September 4, 2023 at 10:30 AM
☁️ 66 °F
Altitude: 43 ft
Canada The Rocks Provincial Park 45.821226, -64.57252845°49’16” N 64°34’21” W
Hopewell Rocks (Low Tide) - Bay of Fundy
September 4, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
We visited Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy, where they have the largest difference between low and high in the world! Low tide today was 1.5 feet. High tide was 44+ feet!!!

These photos were taken right after low tide, so we were actually able to go and walk on the sea floor. We avoided the mud, for the most part.Read more
Very nice!!! [Wendi McCauley]
9/6/23Reply
TravelerThanks Wendi. It was both neat, yet strange, to walk on the ocean floor. And because of all the iron/clay, the wet mud down there looks just like chocolate pudding 🙃. But we didn't try any!😵‍💫
9/6/23Reply
BluebutterflyWhy not???
9/8/23Reply
TravelerNo sugar in it 😵‍💫
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Day 3
Monday, September 4, 2023 at 10:49 AM
☁️ 66 °F
Altitude: Sea level
Canada Hopewell Cape 45.815867, -64.57786145°48’57” N 64°34’40” W
Hopewell Rocks Tide Comparison
September 4, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
You can see the difference in the tide location from the first two photos. #1 was taken at low tide, while #2 was taken about 3 hours later - still a couple of hours before high tide.
How Amazing Is That! [Debbie Cleary]
9/5/23Reply
TravelerYes, Debbie, for certain! 👌
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Awe inspiring [Margrete&mona]
9/6/23Reply
TravelerHi Margarete & Mona. ( u found us) Yes, truly "awe inspiring ", you are so right! More to come this week and next, so come back here often 😉.
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Day 4
Tuesday, September 5, 2023 at 6:05 PM
☀️ 73 °F
Altitude: 627 ft
Canada McCumber Brook 45.493348, -65.30085645°29’36” N 65°18’3” W
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Natural Vistas
September 5, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
Practicing some photography... 📸
Not too hard working off the Creator's varied palette! 🎨
Traveler Awesome 😎
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BluebutterflyAbsolutely beautiful!!
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Day 5
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 12:30 PM
☀️ 70 °F
Altitude: 36 ft
Canada Bertrand 47.787418, -65.08863847°47’15” N 65°5’19” W
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Village Acadien -- 1
September 6, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 70 °F
Visited a period-specific recreated Acadien village. Lots of authentic history and living characters sharing "their" specific crafts and experience.
*More details and location here:
https://villagehistoriqueacadien.com/en/siteRead more
Traveler Yes, those are actual wooden clogs! Wondering if they are allowed to glue 21st-century insoles inside 🤔, with all the walking they do in the large village.
9/6/23Reply
Traveler Yes, an actual farmer 👨‍🌾
9/6/23Reply
Traveler 😁 Duck, duck, duck, duck ... didn’t see a goose🪿
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Day 5
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 2:03 PM
⛅ 72 °F
Altitude: 23 ft
Canada Bertrand 47.786724, -65.10420347°47’12” N 65°6’15” W
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Village Acadien -- 2
September 6, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 72 °F
Really enjoyed our history lesson here + we got in a good country walk in the very warm sunshine🌞 .
Bluebutterfly What an amazing stove!
9/7/23Reply
TravelerYes! Geoff told the lady of the house that we had friends that would have totally used that... and daily. What an appreciation Bill & Dolores maintained for such things!
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Day 5
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 6:30 PM
⛅ 64 °F
Altitude: 23 ft
Gulf of Saint Lawrence 48.00957, -64.49241348°0’34” N 64°29’33” W
Miscou Island Lighthouse
September 6, 2023, Gulf of Saint Lawrence ⋅ ⛅ 64 °F
Neat, easy-to-reach lighthouse.
History time here... (*notice the Champlain connection). The French explorer Jacques Cartier navigated along the shores of Miscou as early as July 3, 1534. He named the northern point of the island Cap d'Espérance (Cape of Good Hope), believing he had found the route to the East Indies through the bay that extended westward inland. On July 9, 1534, he named this body of water Chaleurs Bay.

In 1600's, Miscou Island, with it's well sheltered harbour, was busy trading center for fish and fur and played an important role in the early occupation by Europeans of the northern part of the continent.

The name Miscou was first mentioned by Samuelle de Champlain in 1623. The name then followed several variations such as: Muscoe (1680), Michkou (1685), Petite Île Miscou (1686), Isle de Saint Louis in Jesuit relations, then again Miscou in 1744.Read more
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Day 5
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM
⛅ 66 °F
Altitude: 16 ft
Gulf of Saint Lawrence 48.01022, -64.4928948°0’37” N 64°29’34” W
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Ocean time relaxation
September 6, 2023, Gulf of Saint Lawrence ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
What an excellent memory we made on the eve of our 32nd anniversary ❤️ 📷.
Really felt like we were left alone in this private, peaceful spot at water's edge!
Traveler Found my perfect spot. It even had a back rest 💦🩷
9/7/23Reply
Just Amazing...Happy Eve of your Anniversary!💓💓 [Debbie Cleary]
9/7/23Reply
TravelerThanks!
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Day 6
Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 8:34 AM
☁️ 64 °F
Altitude: Sea level
Canada Dalhousie 48.06098, -66.35081648°3’40” N 66°21’3” W
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Easy anniversary
September 7, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 64 °F
Quieter day! 🐌 🐢 Slow start at heading out & about. A personal chef👨‍🍳 made breakfast, a coastal ride north thru mostly modest residential areas, light picnic lunch near a small lighthouse, and then returned back for dinner & meeting in Bathurst, NB.Read more
Jeannette N Tim PutnamHappy anniversary 🎉
9/8/23Reply
TravelerMany thanks again. Nothing too exciting here --- just old people stuff type of day. Took forever to get moving, rode around, got back early, ate at weird times, etc. Guess we are migrating there. After all, we have a kid in his 30s, starting today 🙃😬. (Just seeing if Nate actually is aware of our blogging 🤣😜)
9/8/23Reply
Jeannette N Tim Putnam🤣👴👵❤️
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Day 7
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 11:04 AM
☁️ 70 °F
Altitude: 10 ft
Canada Kellys Beach 46.827167, -64.90603346°49’38” N 64°54’22” W
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Kouchibouguac National Park
September 8, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Drove thru the park (pronounced similar to Koo-she-BOO-gwock), still in New Brunswick. Got a bit of WiFi connection while at the Visitor Center, and then walked along the marsh boardwalk, ending at the beach ⛱️ for a quick picnic🧺.Read more
Jeannette N Tim PutnamNice 🙂
9/8/23Reply
Traveler Can you pronounce it? 🤔😉
9/8/23Reply
TravelerLikely not the correct Native American way 🙄🤐🤭
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Day 7
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 11:21 AM
⛅ 70 °F
Altitude: 33 ft
Canada South Kouchibouguac Dune 46.822551, -64.90382546°49’21” N 64°54’14” W
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Birds of New Brunswick
September 8, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
Here are a few of the birds we saw in New Brunswick. (I excluded the crows. 🤪)

1) Ruddy Turnstone
2) Ring-Billed Gull
3) Piping Plover
4-8) Great Blue Heron

Most were seen today at Kellys Beach in Kouchibouguac National Park. The exception is the last bird photo:

9) Turkey Vulture we saw at the Fundy Trail Parkway on September 5th.Read more
Traveler Neat
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TravelerYes, Geoff was quite the steady hand on that camera zooming! 🎦🥰
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Traveler I am really liking the bird's shadow on the water! To me, the shadow appears as if it were a pencil ✏️ sketch 🎨
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Day 7
Friday, September 8, 2023 at 7:00 PM
☀️ 73 °F
Altitude: 85 ft
Canada Buchanan Island 46.082538, -62.94384846°4’57” N 62°56’38” W
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Our Fun Cabin on P.E.I.
September 8, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 73 °F
After arriving on Prince Edward Island this afternoon, we made our way over to our uniquely quirky cabin. (VIDEO link below) It is loaded with fun one-of-a-kind decorations. And everything necessary is here in this small space too! Looking forward to having these large windows 🪟🪟 open for the warm, moist breezes tonight and the next. ( Update: windows became essential, as a hot & humid summer weekend arrived. All were open wide, night and day)
**Here's a video link of the cabin: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yxSaCWWQJuiwiLDM6Read more
Jeannette N Tim PutnamHow adorable!
9/8/23Reply
BluebutterflySoooo cool...somebody was very artistic.
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Like a cabin out of a fairy tale story!😍 [Debbie Cleary]
9/9/23Reply
TravelerAnd, thankfully, no fairies 😬🥴
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Day 8
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 7:16 AM
☁️ 70 °F
Altitude: 16 ft
Canada Dalvay Pond 46.417887, -63.08030146°25’4” N 63°4’49” W
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Seaside Scenes
September 9, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 70 °F
Compilation of seaside scenes we enjoyed
How Wonderful Is That!💜 [Debbie Cleary]
9/9/23Reply
Bluebutterfly That's a lot of seaweed. Love the waves.
9/9/23Reply
Bluebutterfly Great shot of the waves.
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Day 8
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 10:27 AM
⛅ 70 °F
Altitude: 3 ft
Canada Point Prim Lighthouse 46.050314, -63.03905746°3’1” N 63°2’21” W
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Lighthouses
September 9, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 70 °F
Very similar in appearance on PEI (Prince Edward Island).
But the settings, access, and amount of private-feeling areas do vary.
Bluebutterfly Those waves are much quieter than the other ones.
9/9/23Reply
TravelerI think I can count 9!!! I love lighthouses!
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Day 8
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 12:00 PM
🌬 73 °F
Altitude: 43 ft
Canada Green Gables 46.4884, -63.38146146°29’18” N 63°22’53” W
Anne of Green Gables Heritage Place
September 9, 2023 in Canada ⋅ 🌬 73 °F
This was a must-see museum tour on the national Parks Canada list. It is based on the beloved fictional character, Anne. Its intent was to make the 1908 novel blend with the real-life experiences of local author Lucy Maud Montgomery, who drew inspiration from the idyllic farmstead and its red woodland pathways.
Besides the historic feeling of the place, especially inside the home, we thoroughly enjoyed the natural trails!Read more
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Day 8
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 1:45 PM
🌬 77 °F
Altitude: 46 ft
Canada Brackley Beach 46.412765, -63.19723446°24’46” N 63°11’50” W
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The Dunes Studio Gallery & Cafe
September 9, 2023 in Canada ⋅ 🌬 77 °F
This was a doubly recommended place to visit, by sisters in a congregation on the island. Free to tour, even without buying a meal! We are pleased that we went to look for this place! Being that we needed lunch, we splurged for an elegant one 😋. And it was healthy, loaded with flavors.
Geoff's flower photography 📸 will be featured on another trip footprint (or maybe 2.)Read more
Bluebutterfly Do you always drink with your nose??
9/12/23Reply
TravelerHa ha ha. 🤣 Missed that!
9/12/23Reply
Bluebutterfly That looks sooooo yummy 🤤 😋
9/12/23Reply
TravelerLobster 🦞 Quiche and fresh salad 🥗 . Perfect (and we don't truly like Lobster, but when in Rome...)
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Day 8
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 2:45 PM
🌬 79 °F
Altitude: 49 ft
Canada Shaws Beach 46.412792, -63.19694346°24’46” N 63°11’49” W
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Dunes Cafe -- flowers aplenty
September 9, 2023 in Canada ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
This is a sampling of the many many plants in the gardens behind the Dunes Cafe. Our photographer, Geoff, braved one of our hottest days to capture Jah's gifted beauty. 🌹🌼
Bluebutterfly Soooo beautiful and such variety!! Jehovah does love diversity. 😍
9/12/23Reply
Traveler... and He shared all that with us 🫠🤗
9/12/23Reply
My kinda place! 😍 [A.M.]
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Day 8
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 3:15 PM
🌬 79 °F
Altitude: 46 ft
Canada Shaws Beach 46.41256, -63.19665446°24’45” N 63°11’48” W
Dunes Cafe --- garden scenes
September 9, 2023 in Canada ⋅ 🌬 79 °F
More scenes of beauty behind the cafe.
Plus, a few with us there, too 🤪🤭
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Day 9
Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 2:00 PM
☁️ 77 °F
Altitude: 56 ft
Canada Fort Lawrence 45.851776, -64.25688945°51’6” N 64°15’25” W
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Entering Nova Scotia
September 10, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Woke up on the Island, PEI. Went to meeting with a ton of Friends, had a huge ice cream 🍨, and crossed the 15 minute bridge. Back on the big land, and have finally entered Nova Scotia. And get this: we are in Amherst, really 😜. The throwback lunch location we found in Truro. Yummy 😋. And the anniversary gift 🎁 / message we found in our rental cottage 💞Read more
BluebutterflyMiles' mother's family is from Beach Meadows, Nova Scotia. Any place near where you are?
9/10/23Reply
TravelerNo, kinda opposite in direction. Beach Meadows is between Yarmouth and Halifax. The closest we might get to it is when we go to Halifax, but Geoff thinks that's where a lot of people come from the states cuz it's an easier trip there. We are in the Bras d'Or lakes region; just arrived a bit ago
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Bluebutterfly Love their root beer floats. Been ages (decades) since I have had one.
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TravelerTo relive some memories DM, and maybe a few too much, go here: https://youtu.be/hWONWakkon0?si=wp23_N151S9yuPr_
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Day 9
Sunday, September 10, 2023 at 9:16 PM
⛅ 66 °F
Altitude: 20 ft
Canada Lieu historique national du Canada du Canal-de-St. Peters 45.65899, -60.87040345°39’32” N 60°52’13” W
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Fun variety of stuff
September 10, 2023 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 66 °F
Miscellaneous collection here.
And some really goofy stuff, as well.
Bluebutterfly 😂😂😂
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Bluebutterfly Another bucket lunch?
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Bluebutterfly Love the clouds. The sky fascinates me...always changing.
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Day 10
Monday, September 11, 2023 at 10:00 AM
🌧 61 °F
Altitude: 1,634 ft
Canada Island Barren 46.68387, -60.67248246°41’2” N 60°40’21” W
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Cabot Trail & Cape Breton Highlands NP
September 11, 2023 in Canada ⋅ 🌧 61 °F
We had a LONG day yesterday driving the Cabot Trail, which runs through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Here are some samples of what we saw...
Bluebutterfly Very froggy 🤪🤭😅
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