June 7th - Moncton, New Brunswick

Yesterday for our arrival at Kendal's Camper City Campground in Moncton, New Brunswick, it was quite muddy. Here is a picture of where the truck was parked on our lot. Even after a day of sunshine today it did not dry out.

This morning we headed to Hopewell Rocks, about 20 miles away, where at low tide you can walk on the ocean floor. Here are a couple of pictures we took at 10:00 a.m.

It was a beautiful day. After walking around all we wanted we left and headed to Magnetic Mountain where your car goes backwards up hill. We knew it is an optical illusion but it was fun. No one else was around so the attendant let us do it twice. Kellen took a video but it accidentally got deleted.  We had packed a picnic lunch and ate it there and topped it off with a big ice cream cone. (What is a vacation without a big ice cream cone?)

We then headed back to Hopewell Rocks to see the ocean at high tide. On the way we stopped at a little park and took a picture of the Chocolate River, which is the muddy river in Moncton that empties out twice a day with the tide into the Bay of Fundy. We watched as the water filled it back up.  Here is a picture. It rose a foot in a matter of minutes.

At Hopewell Rocks the tide changes up to twenty-seven feet every six hours depending on the moon. Today it changed twenty-two feet between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Kellen and I walked down the steps toward the ocean floor as far as we could to watch the water rise. The entire lower landing was under water by the time we got there. Here is a picture I took of a sign across from us when we got there and the second picture is ten minutes later when it is under water. Pretty amazing to watch.

With the two walks down to the rocks and back we walked over two miles, uphill both ways. The second trip Kelly walked down but paid to take the trolley back up.  It was really a beautiful day for sightseeing in Moncton. The kids are still in school here but there were several buses of little French speaking kids out on a field trip. I'm sure their moms will love all the mud they were getting into.

This morning before we left I had a camper repair to make. Upon unhitching the RV yesterday I noticed that the generator compartment door was not latched on one side.  Here is a picture.

I thought it had just come unlatched. When I opened it I found that the locking arm had come off. As luck would have it the locking arm and screw that holds it in were both laying right there precariously on the framework. Here is a picture of it laying there with the screw threads on one side of the metal and the lock on the inside. Who knows for how long it had been like this since the last repair on the gasoline compartment lock which is only about two feet away.

What is going on in this area for these locks to all of a sudden start falling off? I don't have any Locktite with me but I do have a bottle of wood glue so I put some of that on the threads and tightened the screw as tight as I could. I checked the lock on the other side and it was quite tight. Here is a picture of the reattached locking arm ready to do its job once again. I will have to be checking these things I guess. In ten years of owning this RV I have never had lock problems like this before.

Tomorrow we are off to North Sidney, Nova Scotia, where we wait a day to catch our ferry to Newfoundland. It will be about a six hour drive from here. We hope to be able to stop and have lunch with friends in Truro, Nova Scotia, on the way up. Waiting to hear back from them.