Adventurous Leila

We headed to cross the boarder first thing in the morning. I was a little nervous because my mom told me she watched other stories of full timers who get their rigs torn apart when the boarder patrol searches. When we got to the boarder my mom gave them all our documents they requested but unfortunately because my parents had alcohol they asked us to pull over for a search. We all had to get out and two officers started searching the RV. I saw them going thorough all my stuff and my camera bag and I was just hoping they were careful with it. After the search they came out and informed my parents that they had a little over the alcohol limit and would need to either pay or abandon some so my parents chose to abandon it. They also took my mom’s house plant that she got for her birthday because apparently you can’t bring soil across. I was surprised when we got back in the RV everything was put back in its place except tucking in my blanket on my bed.

Our first campsite was The Shire. It was a really nice grassy property that the owner turned into a free campsite with a common area for fires, a flushing toilet and an old trailer turned into an office. In the office he had guest books that went back all the way to 2004. I signed the guest book, added a pin in Phoenix AZ on his world map and left a photo of us on the wall. Across the road is his house where he has a pond and lots of cute piggies. The pigs pen had an electric fence around it and my dad shocked himself, it was so funny. During our stay we met a few other campers from Toronto CA who hung out with us by a fire that night.

The next morning we got up and went to Fundy National park to explore. Of course our first spot was the visitors center to get a Jr ranger packet, but here in Canada they are called Xplorers. Next we went on a waterfall hike, it was so pretty with all the green moss everywhere with thick woods. It reminds me of northern Washington/ Olympic NP. We had bought a new game at the visitor center that we played along our hike where you pull a card and have to find that object. After the hike we went to an area called ship harbor, since it was low tide we were able to walk really far out and see all the shells. It was getting late so we found a place to cook dinner. It was a big grassy area that overlooked the ocean. I like to call it groundhog paradise because there were so many. Landon and I basically spent the whole evening chasing them.

On our second day we went to our first provincial park which is pretty much what we would call a state park in the US, called Hopewell Rocks. It’s this area in Fundy Bay where the tide fluctuates 32-46 feet. At low tide you can walk out really far and look up at the huge rock formations then come back at high tide and see the water come all the way up. We got there first thing in the morning during low tide and hiked all along the huge rocks but it was so muddy. After exploring all the way to the end we tried coming back and got our shoes stuck in the mud. Luckily they have a spray area when you get back up to clean our shoes. While we were waiting for high tide we drove into town and ate some pizza. On our way back to Hopewell rocks we stopped at a park that had a old trian museum and ran into our friend from the shire. After exploring the museum it started raining so my parents decided we would go to high tide the following day since it was on our way to Nova Scotia anyways.

Since we were skipping high tide we went back to Fundy NP to turn in our packets and get our badge, but instead of a badge they give you dog tags. After getting my tag we went back to the RV for dinner. The next day we packed up and stopped at Hopewell rocks for high tide, it was really cool to see how high the tide comes in each day. We didn’t stay very long because we wanted to get on the road to Nova Scotia.