Canada
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| We entered Canada on July 31 into New Brunswick. Upon coming to the visitor center, we found out that (1) we were now on Atlantic time, not Eastern time, and (2) we should know when low, high, and slack tide times were to visit the "Reversing Rapids". |
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| The Bay of Fundy experiences some of the greatest tide changes in the world. On this map, the fellow at the visitor center marked where the tides push up the St John River, causing the flow of the river to go upstream at high tide and the rapids to reverse from downstream to upstream. |
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| We had the opportunity to stay in several Canadian National Parks while in Canada - this was our campsite at the Fundy National Park in New Brunswick. |
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| Overlooking the flats exposed by the tide in Alma, New Brunswick, on the Bay of Fundy. |
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| At Hopewell Rocks, the rock formations called the "Flower Pots" dramatically demonstrate the difference between high and low tides. This was near high tide... |
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| This is near low tide - the water had been covering all of the ground and up onto those rocks at high tide (refer to previous picture). |
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| Fuel was significantly higher priced in Canada, and we were on our way into Newfoundland, where it would be even higher priced, so we filled up in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, before getting onto the ferry to Newfoundland. The price was CAD$0.965 for regular, and CAD$0.884 for diesel - per liter... the exchange rate while we were there was about US$0.75 to CAD$1, so we got about a 25% discount on the costs. |
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| Getting onto the ferry that would take us to Newfoundland - a 16 hour ferry ride. We took the longer ferry going over to save us time and fuel to get where we wanted to visit. We took the shorter ferry ride (6 hours) coming back. |
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| On the ferry with us, there were Blue Bird school buses being delivered. |
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| Tabitha was settled in to her normal travel resting spot just outside the kitty privy. We had to leave the bus for the duration of the ferry ride, so we had a cabin on the ferry, but the cats stayed on the bus and seemed to be none-the-worse for wear. |
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| Another ferry coming in as we were leaving. |
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| The water views in Newfoundland were beautiful! There were bays, or lakes, or ponds around every turn. |
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| A stream near Mistaken Point shows evidence of peat in the brown runoff. |
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| Sunrise at Cape Spear Lighthouse, St John's, Newfoundland - the first spot on North America to see the sun each day. |
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| At Signal Hill National Historic Site - where Marconi's telegraph signal was first received. |
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| Beautiful bay north of St John's |
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| Beautiful bay on way to Gander |
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| Gander North Atlantic Aviation Museum - neat displays - this was a stopping spot for flights going to Europe before trans-Atlantic flights could go from continental US all the way to Europe. They also had a neat remembrance of the service that folks in Gander provided to "airplane people" for those flights that were diverted here on 9/11/2001. |
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| On our way up to an overlook in area near Twillingate - beautiful water views all around! |
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| A iceberg off area near St Anthony - these come from Greenland down through these straits. |
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| Boat tour of "Western Brook Pond" in Gros Morne National Park - "pond" is definitely a misnomer for this beautiful lake! |
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| Boat tour on Western Brook Pond in Gros Morne National Park |
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| Our leveling jacks stopped working just about the same time we entered Canada. Dwayne was communicating via email and phone with a service guy with HWH in Iowa and he had us doing various debugging. (We ultimately took it to HWH in Iowa to have it worked on in October.) |
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| We were also having a problem with the headlights not working (well, things like the high beams didn't work on one side and low beams/daytime running lights on the other). Since we couldn't use the leveling jacks, we took advantage of being in a WalMart parking lot that had a little slope that helped us get under the front of the bus to work on getting the bulbs checked/replaced. |
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| A young man, Jim, on a motorbike stopped by to see what we were doing. He was a great help as he was skinny and had long arms that helped in reaching the area where the headlights were! |
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| On Prince Edward Island, Cavendish Campground - near where Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up and placed the setting for her "Anne of Green Gables" books. |
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| Miss Kitty generally settles in on a chair, the ottoman, couch, or the bed - wherever we are. |
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| We went into Quebec City for the day - enjoyed seeing the old town. |
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| There was a Grand Prix bicycle race going on that day so we got to see parts of it also. |
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| We had gotten "social cards" with Miss Daisy (our previous rig) on them, and we had given most of them away. We wanted to order new social cards, so we got a picture of us with Miss Doozie while near Kingston, Ontario. |
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| We also got a picture of the two of us - we find it helpful with other people's social cards have their picture on it... we try to write down something to help us remember them, but a picture definitely helps. Social cards are often exchanged with people that we meet in campgrounds or other places along our travels. |
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| One of our last campsites in Ontario, right on Lake Ontario near Toronto. It was so beautiful and peaceful! |
Links to other parts of this letter:
Part 4:
The Wondrous Beauty given by God
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