And Now we go home

Yesterday we took the Conway scenic train, a 4 1/2 hour trip from Conway, NH up to the Crawford Notch. The Notch is  at the base of Mount Washington. Tom loved all the train stuff and we both loved the stunning fall foliage. 

Dining car- and it was an excellent lunch.

Maine

We were in Maine for 6 days. A couple of days in the mountains and 4 in Acadia National park. We had a day and a half in Acadia before it was shut down. On tuesday  we put the kayaks in at a local park so the shut down didn't matter. Yesterday, we along with many other people spent the day crossing roadblocks to hike on the trails in the wilder part of the park where there were no gaurds to chase people away. I really felt sorry for the elderly people who couldn't go hiking.

This is how 15 year old Paddington goes on long hikes.

Acadia is known for these carriage roads that are a favorite place to ride bikes.

This is Mount Katadin, the highest mountain in Maine

This was the river right by our camp sight when we were in the mountains.

Kingsbrae Gardens

Today we spent the afternoon in St. Andrews mostly at the Kingsbrae gardens. Tomorrow we leave Canada and I hope to get a new phone!

for the Caves clan

I had to stop and take this picture. To bad it wasn't time for dinner!

Fundy Bay

after leaving Kejimkujik we started around the Bay of Fundy, a circuit we won't finish until we leave Acadia National Park next week. The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world. This is a result of its shape and position. Our first point of interest was a place called FORCE. It is a cooperative effort between the government, numerous universities and industry to try to utilize the force of the tides coming through a slightly narrower spot in the bay to power all of Nova Scotia. As well as trying to engineer the power generation, they are studying fish, marine mammals, birds, sediment suspension and anything else that this project might disrupt in a very delicate ecosystem. If anyone wants to learn more there website is fundyforce.ca.

Next we stopped at the Joggins fossil center. This site has fossils from the "coal age". It was a site that was instrumental in Charles Darwin's thinking.

The most amazing thing for a "just tourist" was these trees that would be sticking out of the cliffs in their upright position.

Out next stop was the Hopewell rocks. These cliffs are eroded by the twice daily tides in such a way that the remains look something like flower pots. We arrived about an hour after low tide and started with a walk on the beach.

These are some pictures to show the progression of the tides through the next 4 hours. 

As you can probably tell our weather is deteriorating again so we didn't get to do much outdoors for a couple of days. These are some pictures of the Fundy coast from our travels.