Camped in Fundy National Park New Brunswick

It was a fairly short travel day today, leaving PEI and getting to Fundy Park. It wasn't much fun getting through Moncton NB, as we think our GPS took us on a "short cut" through parts of Moncton we've never seen before. We got through eventually though. Really glad we were driving a little van today.

Some of the coastal drive from Moncton to Fundy was quite pretty:

The brownish-looking area below the sky is the Petitcodiac River when the tide is out. There were some amazing mud-lined gullies we couldn't get pictures of, common coastal features with the huge Fundy tide swings.

Hwy 114 was a much better surface than the last time we drove it a number of years ago. It still doesn't have the water views you might expect though, and very few places to pull off and admire the views you do see.

Once we arrived at Fundy via the town of Alma, we were able to easily get a site for the night in the Headquarters campground, our first choice. This campground is hiking distance into Alma, a nice town for a browse.

On our hike down to Alma:

Pretty plantings near Fundy Park entrance

Interesting old roots

Mist rolling into Alma from the water

Fishing boats in Alma harbour

Never seen this before - return shells to the beach!

Hard to see, but full of shells handed in

 

Once we had seen what we wanted of Alma, it was time to hike back up to the campground. We had come down by road, but there are steps provided that shorten the return distance:

Looking back down part of the steps. That's the road down there.

Looking up at the rest of the steps.

Lots of stops on the way back up the steps, but we made it. Then it was shower time before supper. Tomorrow we will continue on to St Andrews NB, where we'll be camped for a couple of nights.