Wednesday, June 25, 2008

St. John

This morning we had an epic breakfast.

We discovered this place called Mikes which is an Italian themed family restaurant. They are all over Quebec and a few places out east and all I can say is WOW. The breakfast menu is amazing.
I had a Frittata which is like an omelet only baked in a unique dish. John had a Breakfast Pizza which he said was really good. I can only imagine what the rest of the menu is like but I will find out soon.
Sadly the only one in Ontario is in Timmins it seems. When this trip is over I'm going to have to seriously look at opening a location in the GTA. I'd be raking in the money if I did.

After we had stuffed ourselves we left for St. John and the Bay of Fundy coast.
We reached there quit quickly and soon found ourselves lost in the maze of twisty turney streets that you get when you build a city at the mouth of a river and on cliffs of every shape and size.
Somehow we got to a lookout that was right on a beach so we headed down to see the sea.
The amount of distance the tides will move the water was quite something. By the rocks on the shoreline we could tell that the water would go up at least 3 metres from where it was when we got there which seemed to be pretty close to low tide. The distance down the beach looked to be something like 10 or 20 metres.
I looked in every tide pool I could see but sadly there were no interesting sea creatures.
We found a hotel and crashed for a few hours and then went out to explore the city a bit more.
We found a little park out on a peninsula that let you drive through a forest which was really cool. The foot paths take you through a charming forest and then out onto the rocks.
There was a lookout where they claimed that seals would frequent the rocks below but sadly none were to be seen. The biggest animal we have seen so far was a rabbit!

Hopefully our next stop, Fundy National Park, will reveal it's animal life to us.

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