Canada/NE - Day 20

 

Essex Junction to Rich’s cousin’s “camp” at Newport, Vermont. 

It’s raining for the first time in a month and our first real day of rain on the whole trip so far. 

We saw some covered bridges on the way:

Waterville Covrred Bridge 

Montgomery Covered bridge. 

Jayne’s Covered Bridge at Coddling Hollow 1877 Aldo known as the Kissing Bridge. Such a cute name! 

Lumber Mill bridge 

Morgan Covered Bridge. 

Hutchins Covered Bridge 1803.

Lattice framing with timber pegs instead of nails. 

Fuller Covered Bridge. 

Beehive hanging from a tree. 

Chipmunk! At last. 

The picture on the wall is a barn quilt. Painted on timber. 

Big Falls at Big Falls State Park. 

“Camp” turns out to be a very cute cottage right on the Lake Memphremagog front. 

View from the deck. You can see Canada from here. 

Canada/NE - Day 19

 Walking the tracks near Jackie and Rich’s. 

Autumn colours here. 

Walk near Jackie’s.

This is a typical US post box. They put the red flag up when they want the postman to pick up letters they want to post. Whereas in Australia (mostly in the country where driveways are long) the postman puts the flag up when he delivers mail. 

Vermont University building. 

Jackie and Rich took us out on a yacht to see Lake Champlain from a different perspective. It is called “The Friendship”. It’s a gaff rigged sloop. It was built in 1989 and is one of  20. 

Canada/NE - Day 18

 Heading back to Vermont. 

Autumn colours are coming!

Canadian moose warning. The Canadian border control police wanted to know if we had firearms or Marijuana. The US border control police wanted to know if we had alcohol or fruit.

US deer warning sign. 

US skidoo road sign. 

US moose warning sign. 

Sunday River Covered Bridge 1872. I don’t know why this photo is blurry. I’ll replace it with Ron’s later. 

Sunday River Covered Bridge 1872.Sunday River Covered Bridge. 

Sunday River Covered Bridge.

The Stoned Moose in Bethel where you can buy recreational marijuana if you are 21 or over and not intending to go to Canada. 

Vermont state police with a green car. Most of the Sheriff’s we’ve seen have black cars. 

One of the many lakes where people enjoy summer boating and swimming holidays.  There are a lot of school camp facilities in this area.  

Passed a lot of cars on the side of the road which I thought was a bear sighting but as we got closer there was also a full parking area at an Appalachian Trailhead. 

Dinner at Shanty on the Shore and saw the sunset. 

Canada/NE - Maine - Day 17

Heading back to Vermont via an overnight stop in Maine.  

Morning rainbow seen from our balcony.

       The trees are starting to show some colour on PEI.

Canadian road sign - moose crossing. 

US road sign - deer crossing. 

Dinner at Miguel’s Mexican.

Canada/NE - PEI - Day 16

It’s started out at 14* C - foggy and cloudy and a tiny of rain which cleared and the temperatures rose to 17*C. 

Surf’s up at MacKenzies Brook beach. 

New London Wharf. 

We went to French River, PEI which is a tiny town on more of an inlet than a river.

New London lighthouse. 

Cape Tryon lighthouse. We took a very rough dirt road to see this lighthouse. We aren’t even sure if our hire car allows us to go on dirt roads. 

Spectacular cliffs at Cape Tryon lighthouse.

The house where Lucy Maid Montgomery was born in 1874.  She wrote “Anne of Green Gables”.

The back of her parent’s house.

We were told there were once lots of Walrus in this area. And I thought I saw one. See photo below. 

Unfortunately when Ronnie zoomed in it turned out to be a piece of driftwood in the shape and colour of a walrus. Turns out they were hunted to extinction in the 1800s. 

Dinner at Pedro’s Island restaurant North Rustico.