On Friday we drove up to a Robbinston, close to Calais on the border with New Brunswick, Canada. Saturday we down to Eastport where they were having a Salmon Festival. We didn’t see any Salmon but came across two fishermen on the pier catching mackerel. With every cast they would real in 3 or 4 fish, continuously. In the evening the camp site had a disco which we went up and joined in – before you knew it we were sat around a camp fire chatting until midnight – great evening.
Sunday we drove over this bridge onto Campobello Island and the holiday home of Franklin
D Roosevelt where he spent his summers as a child. The Island is part of Canada so we had to
present our passports. The site is an
International Park as it is a joint venture for Canada and USA. It is a very picturesque “cottage” and we
learnt a bit about FDR.
On our journey
back into USA we spotted some seals in Lubec harbour and watched them and the
cormorants and seagulls fishing. It was terrific
to see so much activity so close to the shore.
We then went on to see Quoddy Lighthouse which is the furthest most
Easterly point in USA. From the cliff
top we spotted whales (possibly Minke). We
spent the evening again down by the camp fire and then were treated to guitar
music and singing by a couple of the campers – a terrific day.
Monday is the Labour Day holiday. Many of the campers were going home after the
weekend. We had a domestic day chilling
out and getting ready to move out again tomorrow.
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