While walking to the Memorial Day parade we spotted this little lighthouse over in St. Stephens, New Brunswick. It's built on a wharf in the St Croix River and we found out later that it never had a light and was called a faux lighthouse. Best I can figure is that the old town fathers thought that having a lighthouse would bring more tourists to St. Stephens. The town is known for it's chocolate factory which we'll visit on our return trip.
The crossing went pretty smooth with customs, maybe because we didn't have anything to declare except that we were now in Canada. St. Stephens is a very nice older (all the towns are old) towns not like the border towns that I've been in Texas and California. It did take the best part of an hour while the custom agents went through, what seemed like, every nook and cranny of the RV. I was very happy to find that that they didn't confiscate the ice cream in the fridge.
Our destination, just a few miles away, was the Kiwanis Oceanfront RV Park in beautiful St. Andrews-by-the-Sea. The park is on City property leased to and operated by the Kiwanis Club. It's provides a nice income and just like other Kiwanis Club's the money's spent on activity's for the kid's. We stayed for two nights and I actually attended a club meeting held in the rec building of the park. The land is the distance is Deer Island and the water is PassamaquoddyBay which is off of the beginning of the Bay of Fundy.
This is their Market Wharf which to me is an amazing structure built on wooden pilings supporting concrete beams with a concrete deck which leads to the parking lot where this picture was taken. This is just about low tide.
That's all slope at low tide - at a beach in front of the Pendlebury Lighthouse which is now dark and undergoing a major restoration project. That's all rocks and stones and while we look for shark's teeth at Fernandina Beach, I was hunting for sea glass here and got lucky - I found a handful, white, blue, green and brown.
We got lucky again on Thursday the day for the Farmer's Market at Market Square which is their waterfront park in front on the wharf. Susan was in high cotton - she bought Thai spring rolls, Hummus and meat and spinach/feta stuffed flatbread from the middle Eastern vendor and 6 Samosas with different fillings from the Indian vendor. We been eating pretty good since then, forgot - baclava, yum yum.
This is Water Street, the main shopping area. Probably more than half of the buildings looked they were originally built as homes and then converted, and then converted at some time, into shops, restaurants and offices. The street really has a quaint feeling. St. Andrews is one of Canada's oldest and best preserved 18th century towns, a designated National Historic District and Canada's oldest seaport resort. And a fun place to visit.
On the way to St John we were hunting Cricket Cove, a yarn shop in St. George that wasn't there, even though it was listed on the internet and there a road sign on the way promoting the sign. After an up and down on Main Street we stopped a nice lady and she told us "Nope, it's not in St. George". She also told us how to find their other shop in Black Harbor which we did. Susan's feeling very good - a nice morning at the farmer's market and an afternoon in the yarn shop. Now we're all set for St. John.
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