North Sydney, NS
On Saturday, June 20 the sea was calm and the voyage from Port aux
Basques to North Sydney lasted 6 hours but the landing procedure and
the unloading took 50 minutes. I spent the night at the carpark of
the motel above the port as to the outward journey.
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| North Sydney harbour |
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| Landing to North-Sydney Harbour |
Braeshore
On Sunday, June 21 I noted that the temperature was more mild in
Novia Scotia but alas the weather was overcast and the barometer
announced rain. It appeared around 14:00. At the beginning of
morning traffic was very sparse then it was denser. On the highways
the speed is limited at 100 km with a minimum of 70 km if not it is
necessary to set flashing lights. The consequence is Canadians drive
in convoy at 100 km, trucks included! On the way I discovered in a
garden the Simpson family. Further I stopped at the lookout of Port
Hastings with photographs of the beginning of the 20th century. Now
that the season is estival I will attend the campgrounds on Sunday
to make water, laundry, ablutions and publication of the pages of my
website. I bivouacked in Braeshore at Harbor Light Trailer on the
side of a sea arm between Pictou and the landing of the ferry for
Prince Eduard Island.
En route highway #104
Port Hastings
Amherst, NS
On Monday, June 22 I left the campground in the rain and in the fog.
It had rained all during the night and the ground was very muddy. To
join Amherst I took the coastal road Hwy #6 where the traffic was
episodical. I stopped in Tatamagouche hoping to make pictures of the
pretty frontages of the shops. Alas the street was encumbered with
cars of which my truck. A front of store exhibits reproductions of
photographs of the end of the 19th century, very instructive. The
road traverses typical landscapes of Scotland, a true spinach dish.
Of course there were cattle in fields. I lunched in Wallace at the
entrance of village close to the port in the beating rain. I went to
Amherst to bivouac on the Wal-Mart car-park where I had already
stationed on October 30th, 2011 under snow, time passes quickly.
Tatamagouche
On road #825, NB
Tuesday, June 23 was still a gloomy day which ended in rain. I made
a great detour towards Fundy Bay hoping to find a pleasant bivouac
at the edge of water; no possible access for a vehicle; either
dwellings or fields or wood. St Martins is a pretty village with
spruce houses. It is a station of holiday … in hot season. I found a
bivouac unspecified at the edge of the road #825 at 25 km from St
John where I had appointment the following day at 8:00 for the
routine maintenance of my truck.
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| Sweet home in St Martins, Fundy Bay |
St John, NB
On Wednesday, June 24 after two hours of waiting in the customers
salon of Mercedes-Benz I went to visit downtown two curiosities not
seen on October 31st, 2011, the Museum and the Loyalist House. The
museum on three levels exhibits the work of wood for the
construction of the sailing boats whose St John was an important
center until the end of the 19th century. A room is devoted to the
birth of New Brunswick in 1812 at the time of the war of
independence of New England. This period saw the victory of the
loyalists over the freedom fighters announcing the creation in the
20th century of Canada. New Brunswick is the only officially
bilingual province. The second level is dedicated to geology as well
as the fauna of the state. The third level is devoted to the fine
arts. I show the pictures which the most marked me with a mention
for the painting of Stephen May freely interpreting a painting by
Andy Warhol seen during a temporary exhibition of this artist in
Marseilles, France. The Loyalist House is a good example of the
construction in the beginning of the 19th century, 1820, with the
furnishing of time. She was inhabited by the family until 1959. At
the beginning of afternoon my truck-2 climbed to Carleton Martello
Tower where I had bivouacked on
October 31st,
2011 and again on June 24th, 2015. The day was particularly hot with 28°C.
Musée du Nouveau-Brunswick
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| Italian Symphony by Peggy Smith |
Un après-midi d'automne by Clarence Alphone Gagnon |
Loyalist House
Fredericton, NB
On Thursday morning the sun was sunny. As on November 1st, 2011 I
traversed Hwy #102 along the splendid St John river. But in Gagetown
the ferry which was to enable me to skirt the river on left bank was
not operating, a detour was essential to take the Hwy #105 until
Fredericton which I had visited in 2011. I drove directly to Walmart
to bivouac there again.
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| Hwy #102, St John River |
No ferry at Gagetown ! |
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| Peaceful cemetery with its church, Maugerville |
On road #102, NB
Kings Landing
On Friday, June 26 I visited in Prince William the Kings Landing
Historical Settlement which gathers on banks of the majestic St John
River dwellings of the beginning of the 19th century inhabited by a
community of a hundred people in costume of time. All the trades
necessary to the life of an agricultural village are in activity. I
have the chance that the sky was mild although it covered with
clouds in the afternoon. Carrying on my way along the river I found
with happiness a path leading to the shore where I stationed.
On road #105, NB
Two sights were at the program on the Saturday, June 28th of which
the second is surprising. The Hartland Covered Bridge asserts the
longest being of the world with its 390.75 meters builds in 1921. I
traversed it in the two directions. Twenty kilometers further at
Florenceville Bristol is made proud to be the world capital of
potato and French chip! A small museum sponsored by
McCain is dedicated to it. It recalls the origin of the tuber until
our days dominated by technological mechanization, GPS and data
processing, which generated the gigantism of the exploitations by
costs and world competition. The culture of this humble tuber is the
object of all the attentions by Ottawa for its economic consequences
for Canada.
Hartland covered bridge
Florenceville Bristol, Potato Museum
Grand-Sault / Grand Falls, NB
On Sunday, June 28 on the way towards Quebec I visited the Gorge of
the Saint John river at Grand-Sault/Grand Falls as well as the
waterfall which is spectacular at the beginning of spring at the
snow melt. At the time of my visit the head water was scanty but the
spectacle with the noise was in spite of very impressive. The
Malabeam Center exhibits a model of the Gorge as well as objects
telling the legend of the Maliseet young girl who by a stratagem
saved her tribute of the extermination by Mohawks. All the
activities of the city were opened to the tourists only on July 1st!
After lunching I carried on my way until Edmunston to find a
campground close to the Quebec border.
Saint John River
The Gorge
Malabeam Center
