Wednesday June 29, 2016 Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick Canada

We woke up to a rainy morning with fog.  We only had 107 miles to drive.  It turned our to be slightly further.  We got our coffee ready and were pulling out at 9:30.

A stop along the way

I remembered that we hadn't got our FRS radios out.  We stopped at the exit of the campground and got them out.  The batteries were run down and the light on the charger didn't come on when I plugged it in with the radios in place.  We decided to check them further after we were on the way.

We got to the exit of the park and the Garmin GPS didn't indicate the route.  We went on since we had a sheet with detailed turn info.  That didn't help we pulled off and got the new Garmin out of the Jeep.  Gerri also got regular AA batteries out for the radio and it worked.  Later when we arrived at Ponderosa Pines RV, I checked out some other rechargeable batteries and they worked.  The dead batteries in the radios also came to life after being charged in another charger.

We weren't too far off course ad were soon out of Saint John and on a 4 lane highway.  We passed a couple of covered bridges but there was no place to pull over.  We left the 4 lane on Route 114 and the road became rough, curvy and hilly.  When we got closer to our destination we drove through a national park. The road was better.

The last town we came to was Alma.  We saw boats sitting on the sea floor tied to a dock that was easily 20' above their deck.  Again no place to pull over.  We were able to stop at a covered bridge before we got to the RV park and get pictures.

Once at the RV park we got set up and then it rained heavily.  We drove to the park where the Hopewell Rocks are located.  I didn't try the stairs to the sea floor.  The tide was out so there were people walking around the rock formations called the flower pots.  There was one cache near the viewing platform and I found another at the turn off from the highway into the park.

We were caught in a rain storm walking pack to the park entrance.  After returning to the coach we spent the rest of the afternoon and early evening watching it rain and listening to old time radio.  Gerri made a delicious Mexican style soup with sausage and beans.

We turned in at about 10 PM.  We heard it rain most of the night.