Thursday, June 26, 2008

Fundy National Park

This place is Pretty!

It was a short hop from St John to get to the park. Though once we entered it looked about the same as the all the other roads out here, only with stops for trails along the way.
We walked though one which was quite nice and then headed for the visitors center at the other end of the park.
As we got close we could see this giant patch of fog rolling off the ocean and over the forests at the coast. Something to do with the cold ocean currents according to the info board at the lookout. It shows up on the timelapse for that day quite well.

We got to our campsite and found it very nice an fairly bug free. (although later we discovered many bites, the mosquitoes out here must use stealth technology!) We set up camp and then explored the area.
We descended a long path made up mostly of stairs to get down to a nice beach where a river let out. A little bit of exploring and we found the most amazing treasure of the trip.
We stumbled upon a stream coming down the rocks that was forming a cool little waterfall. We were able to climb up it and it was quite a sight to see. We took a lot of pictures there.
From there we climbed the rocks along the coast quite a way down and that was tons of fun.
The light was fading fast and occasional drizzle was dampening our spirits so we headed back to the campsite to make some dinner.

I really messed up the cooking fire though.

I had read lots of books about camping, but I had only once ever gone and that was a long time ago. I forgot a lot of how to build a proper cooking fire so it took like an hour to boil the water.
Next time however I'll be all set as I have the knack of it now.

As we worked on dinner the drizzle got more frequent and it seems that our night was not going to be as comfortable as we would have liked.
We got to bed and I had a lot of trouble sleeping. I could not get to sleep and when I did I had crazy dreams.

"Oh crap, a bear is right beside the tent! It's cutting a hole in the tent with it's claws! It's reaching in! .. and .. Taking my Wallet??? It's Running away with my WALLET!? That bear stole my MONEY!!!! STOP THAT BEAR!!!"

And to top it all off, we awoke to a coating of dew on everything in the tent. We were soaked! Nothing leaked as far as I can tell but when we got to the car and looked at the weather sensor data we saw the reason. 100% humidity.

1 comment:

Enigma said...

100% humidity... ew!

Also... I'm unaware of a difference between a campfire and a "cooking" fire. Campfires are easy, though. Especially if you start the base with leaves and/or newspaper.

 

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