Atlantic time, eh?

Sunday June 5th

Crossed the border with a minimum of hassle. They asked us lots of questions (like how much wine did we have on board), but we were through without being boarded.

Our first stop was the border town of St Andrews By-the-Sea, New Brunswick. You could see Maine across the bay. We had a great campsite on a point overlooking the harbor.

St Andrews' harbor is part of the Bay of Fundy, and this was our introduction to this lovely bay with its dramatic tides. The difference between low and high tides was as much as 20 feet. At low tide, boats that were tied to docks were sitting in the mud and you could "walk or drive on the ocean floor" across the channel to a nearby island.

While there we visited Kingsbrae Horticultural Gardens. It was interesting to see how much later everything was blooming.

We also visited the St Andrews blockhouse, a fort that was built during the war of 1812 out of fear of attack from the Mainers across the bay. St Andrews had been founded after the American revolution by British loyalists who took their entire houses with them across the bay from Castine, Maine, so maybe thay had reason to be paranoid. 

While walking around the little town, we noticed that several stores had closed, despite posted closing times that had not yet arrived.  It took us a couple of days to realize that we were in a different time zone!