June 18, 2023
We started the day with a guided tour of the Kingsbrae Gardens, in St. Andrews. This 27-acre garden features a cedar maze, two ponds, streams, a Dutch windmill, a wide array of birds, butterflies & insects, and a woodland trail through an Acadian forest. It has over 2,500 different varieties of trees, shrubs, and plants, including vegetable plants, and some amazing flowers. It also has fauna, such as peacocks, pygmy goats and alpacas. A great morning tour.
We stopped for lunch in St. Johns, at a restaurant on a small lake. The weather was a bit chilly, and the water was freezing, but there were a group of young adults taking a swimming rescue course on the beach. Hearty soles!
Next we headed out to the coast of New Brunswick to the Hopewell Cape on the Bay of Fundy and the Hopewell Rocks. Due to the geological formation of the area, this section has phenomenal tidal changes of up to 50 feet, every 6 hours! The Hopewell Rocks are rock formations known as sea stacks caused by tidal erosion. They stand 40–70 feet tall. At low tide, you can walk on the ocean floor all through them, but at high tide, only the tree-covered tops show out. We went at low tide and had a guided tour by a naturalist. These were REALLY NEAT!
Our last stop was in the town of Moncton, where we stayed at another hotel right on the Bay.
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| Kingsbrae Gardens, St Andrews, NB |
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| Lunch at Lily Lake Pond, St. Johns |
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| Hopewell Rocks at low tide, Bay of Fundy |
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| Hopewell Rocks at high tide (we didn't see this) |
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