Summer Trip - 2011

Our trip this summer was to the Canadian Maritimes. A trip that's been at the top of our wish list for some time. The photos begin in New Hampshire, where we spent a few days. Pat watches TV shows like "The Great Race" and says; "I can do that". So we stoked up our courage and took the Breton Woods Canopy Tour (zip lining and rappeling) near Lancaster, NH. Then spent a day or two checking out the covered bridges and countryside. Our next stop was Maine. We found an interesting Bog / Boardwalk in Bangor. Then spent several days exploring Acadia Natl Park. Then a few more days along the coast to Campabella Island (in New Brunswick). It seems all in the rain and/or fog. From Maine, we zipped across New Brunswick onto the Gaspe' Peninsula of Quebec. Our destination here was the Gannet colony on Bonaventure Island across from Perce', Quebec. Complete culture shock. I think of Canada as not-quite-foreign. Not so, Quebec. But we found the area interesting and the people very friendly (but not understandable). There is a separate gallery on Boneventure Island. We then looped back through New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. Did you know that the "House of Green Gables" is now on a golf course? A quick trip across eastern Nova Scotia took us to the ferry landing at North Sydney, before our departure to Newfoundland on June 10th. There is also a separate gallery for Newfoundland. After returning from Newfoundland, we spent a day at Fortress Louisbourg near Sidney, NS. The largest historical reconstruction project in North America. Then a day at Hopewell Rocks on the Bay of Fundy, just south of Moncton, NB. Then pretty much back home.