The World is Upside Down!
Jet and I went for a run this morning on the Atlantic beach and for some strange reason the sun was not setting over the ocean but rising! Very strange for this westerner. Jet didn’t like the taste of the water either. So we were both out of sorts a bit on our morning run. New Brunswick shares a border with most of Maine, but we are on the Western border quite a way from Maine.
After stewing about some jack problems and the last couple of crowded parks (it is summer here in Canada) we were getting a bit testy today when we find this huge field across from a beautiful ecologically protected sand dune with brand new RV park sign. No RVs outside the two in the back. So I pull in, and Rick comes out and says he is open, just started last month. He has roundish clam in his hand and cracks it open telling it is a Quohaog (medium size clam) and offers it to us raw. It is great, as good as an oyster. So I am sold on staying here. We pull up on a large grassy spot overlooking the lagoon, dunes and Atlantic, PEI is offshore in the distance. Wow what a find and half the price as we have been paying in crowded places. Rick goes down and gets some scallops for us from a neighbor who farms them, he will get us lobsters for big neighborhood Lobster feed Friday night (six lobsters, $18) and then Saturday night he plays the guitar (bass) in a French Acadian Band that is having party here that we are invited to. So we will be here a week. Tonight we had clams that Rick’s friend dug out in front this morning at low tide. Suzy and I had nice walk on the boardwalk in the eco dunes this morning as the sun rose.
We will side trip to the Bay of Fundy between NB and Nova Scotia where they have 48 foot tide changes (tide changes not sunamis). We will also visit two national parks on the coast, the Acadian Festival on Saturday along with Farmers Market. Suzy even found a quilt shop in Moncton nearby to check out later. It will be good to sit a week and renew. Easy to get caught up in seeing things and going and going to see more and more. Its time to rest a bit so this doesn’t become work.
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.’ - George Bernard Shaw
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Now THIS is travelin'. You're making me proud! Looking forward to your post post-Lobster fest. I bet Tate $20 that mom told Rick that Rusty plays bass within 2 minutes of learning that Rick does too. Did I win???
You won easy, maybe 30 seconds. Tate should know better. One of Rick's partners spent time in Boston and only took mom 10 seconds to sneak in that is where one of her daughters went to school. Easy money!
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