Report From Downeast

Eastport, Maine, from Americas easternmost diner.

Reversing Falls Park turned out to be a really beautiful place. It is not only beautiful, by interesting with a reversing water fall, and very cool because dozens of harbor seals frolic on the downstream side, then eagles try to steal fish from the seals.

In fact, we are going back there today. But alas, there is no camping there. We found a camp site at Cobscook Bay instead.

Wow! What beautiful country. We expected Downeast to be a repeat of the rest of the Maine coast. Wrong. It is much nicer. What a pleasant surprise. In fact, we plan to research Cobscook Bay as a place it cruise on Tarwathie. We will have to deal with the tides which average 18 feet, but spring tides are up to 30 feet, but the bays and coves are beautiful and undeveloped.

This morning, we drove up into New Brunswick Canada and took the scenic Fundy Coast Road. It was very beautiful. As I said before, cruising the Bay of Fundy is on our list. We wanted to go up to the head of the bay to see the famous tidal surge. Too bad, our timing was wrong. High tide is at noon and it was an additional 250 miles away. To see the surge would have taken us an additional two days. Any how, it was the first time in New Brunswick for both Libby and me. We are very glad we did it. We got as far north as Denny's Harbor; a charming little place.

This afternoon we will return to the Reversing Falls to see it flowing the other way. Whew! It will make quite day.