New Jersey Golf

Today was a good rest day. Our freezer was over-frosted and our ice-maker locked up. Oh Noooo! We defrosted the fridge. Elwin used the hair dryer to speed up the freezer and the ice-maker. It took one hour this morning. We have great internet with our Mi-Fi and Cable TV. We played 18 holes of golf at the Creamridge Golf Course with a couple of really nice guys from here. Our ice-maker is working now. Elwin is able to watch the PGA Championship Golf on TV this evening. A good day of rest. I did not take pictures, since I knew they would put us with someone, and golf courses look the same after a while. The courses here are long and sloped. I have no good score to report. The weather here is awesome! 82 degrees is the high. It was a cool, sunny day in New Jersey. The Course was very nice, long, and challenging with slopes and water everywhere. We had a great recovery day. Headed out to Virginia, via Delaware and Maryland to do the dreaded (me) Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, before we get to our good friends in New Kent, Virginia. Looking forward to seeing New Kent friends. We will stay in their driveway for a few days, and spend time with very important people: Friends! We are blessed and rested.

Timberland Lake Campground, New Jersey

This time we are crooked the other way!

We drove 9 hours today through 6 states, a real record for us! We started in Maine, went through New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey.  We are totally beat. I would have stopped earlier, but there were no decent campgrounds on our route. This campground is rugged, but it had full hook-up and even TV cable, Yeah! We are staying here two nights to recover, since we are retired it takes a day to recover, ha ha. Hope to golf tomorrow at Cream Ridge Golf Course 5 miles from this campground. 

Back to Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Traveled a little over 200 miles today to a really nice campground on the southern end of Maine. We plan to stay here 2 nights,  and then hit the road again for 4 days to get to New Kent, Virginia to visit our very good friends there. I never auto leveled this unit, so we are way crooked on this site. They gave us one of their newer sites next to the railroad track on new gravel. The site is very nice, but not level. The guy next door said when he tried to auto-level his jacks, they ended up in the ground too far, and he is in a pickle. Oh well. I will sleep better when the blood rushes to my head tonight, as my feet are a tad bit higher. I cannot say I have been level headed any part of this trip. Just had a bunch of fun. Gravel and grass, meant the dogs finally got a bath today, yeah! We were in this campground before and  the amenities are great. This time we are next to the train tracks,...choo choo, whooo, whoo. Our tourist adventure for tomorrow is a local Walmart Superstore to stock up till we get home. Nice place with a hot tub and pool for adults. Homeward bound.
Watching a Hurricane called Bertha, since we want to go across the Cheasapeke Bay Bridge Tunnel. That is our route for now.

Our site at Old Orchard Beach, Wagon Wheel Campground.

We are crooked for sure!

See the Train tracks? I will hear them and tell you about it.

Dinner's cooking. Train track behind us. Choo, choo.

Katahdin Shadows Campground, Medway, Maine

We traveled around 193 miles today to Medway, Maine. We crossed the border without any problems, but they took my tomatoes! Tomatoes are expensive in Canada. Bummer. Jubilee had a major anxiety attack while we were crossing the border, which was not fun. She is a good dog, but a very anxious traveller. Luckily she settled down after we arrived at our campground. We have a great pull-thru site right next to the pool and amenities. Internet is spotty, but at least we have it. They have little bunny rabbits everywhere here and I caught a picture of one under our motorhome.

Nice enough gravel, fairly level pull-thru site.

Nice pool next to our site. Children rule the pools up north. I might get in later when they are eating.

Here bunny, bunny.

T.N.T. Campground, Cole's Island, New Brunswick

We traveled 167 miles to Cole's Island Campground in New Brunswick. We were not able to get a further campground as this is New Brunswick Day weekend in New Brunswick. All the Canadians have a 3 day weekend and are busy camping. This campground was nice for an overnight stay. Mostly seasonal's here enjoying their escape for the weekend on the Canaan River.

Home for the last night in Canada!

We are in a field on the Canaan River.

Canaan River, Cole's Island

Canaan River

Happy field camping.

Five Islands, Bay of Fundy, NS

Today we traveled the upper rim of the Minus Channel of the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. I thought it was all along the water, but it was not. Again this land is all small townships along the shoreline, but in the mountainous terrain. We saw mostly pine trees, farmland and occasionally beautiful shoreline. This bay is a dry basin until the tide comes in, as shown yesterday in the Tidal Bore blog. The roads of Nova Scotia are rough, due to their winters here. The towns are small, each with a little white church and graveyard. The life here seems simple, and hard. It ended up a long days drive down hills and valleys of wilderness, townships, and bay views. I underestimated the hugeness of this province of Canada. It is part of the left-over Appalachian chain from the ice age, and it is mountainous! Impressive, but overwhelming to cover in such a short time. We enjoy our campground and Truro township. We are getting ready to head back to the good old USA on Saturday!

Bay of Fundy from other shore of the bay than yesterday.

Hills of farmland and forest along the water.

Stopped car to capture a picture of the landscape.

Five Islands Lighthouse, which we could go in to and take some pictures of the five islands.

Two of the five islands. The tide is low.

View along the drive.

Speck on right is a man four wheeling on the dry bay bed before the tide comes in later in the day and puts it under water.

Landscape along the drive.

Before tide.

After the tide on our drive back home.

I put these two together so you can compare before and after. Interesting tides here.

Fishing village of Advocate Harbour at the end of the bay of Fundy.

Lovely scenery along the waters of the Bay of Fundy.

Fog stays over the water here. The day was cool and pleasant in the 70's.

What a view of Advocate Harbour.

Tidal Bore, South Maitland, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia

Today we drove to South Maitland to the Fundy Tidal Interpretive Center to watch the Shubenacadie River Tidal Bore. The bay's incoming tide is so extreme that it temporarily reverses the flow of several rivers that empty into the bay. One hundred and sixty billion tonnes of water (more than the combined total of all the freshwater rivers and streams in the world) flows in and out of the bay in on 12.5 hour tide cycle each day. Today it was a around 1:20 p.m.. It takes about 45 minutes to an hour to watch this slow but steady stream of water enter this virtually dry river basin from zero to 30 ft. in about a half an hour. It is the only place in the world where you can experience the thrill of  tidal bore river rafting. I took some pictures and some movie footage. The river bed is very red here, much like the soil on Prince Edward Island. The water evidently clears closer to the ocean. This was definitely worth watching, quite the experience.

Dry river bed before the tidal bore.

Our observation bridge behind Elwin.

Dry river bed behind me.

Dry Shubenacadie River bed.

You can slowly see the water coming over a 20 minute period.

The rafters are coming over what was dry before.

Filling in the dry spots.

Getting deeper.

Riding the tidal bore. You get very wet and red muddy clothing.

Riding the tidal bore over what was dry about 30 minutes ago.

River is full now.

Swirling water, that was previously only a few feet deep.

The water eventually rises to the water mark on bridge piling over 4 hours and then the tide goes out and it starts all over again.