Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Sunset Point RV Park, Lubec, ME - July 25-31
This cg is right on Johnson's Bay off of the Bay of Fundy. The cg is quite basic but has LOVELY views. The rising & falling of tides (they average about 25 ft) is quite dramatic, and the sunsets right from your campsite are spectacular. Lubec is the easternmost TOWN in the US (not to be confused with Eastport, which is the easternmost CITY in the US!).
The activities in this area are abundant. We went to Campobello Island (New Brunswick) several times. While there we took a whale-watching trip into the Bay of Fundy. We saw a lot of Finback Whales & it was quite thrilling. However, the minute one would spout, about 2 dozen boats would rush towards it, so by the end of the 2-hr trip, we were rooting for the whales. 
We also went on a tour of the "cottage" & grounds of FDR's summer home of many years. It was lovely but hardly a cottage with over 30 rooms. We hiked several trails in the International Park, including a very interesting one through a peat bog. It was a slow day, so we had the naturalist to ourselves and learned much about this interesting terrain. We timed a visit at low tide so we could walk out to the East Quoddy Head Lighthouse. At high tide it is completely surrounded by water, but at low tide you can scramble over the rocks & up & down some ladders to reach it.
You can see distant whales from this point also, but nowhere near as good as from the boats, where you can see & hear them spouting & breathing. We also visited Herring Cove Provincial Park, also on the island, walking on their beach & walking through the campground. From various places you can see seals playing in the ocean.
Another day's outing was to Quoddy Head State Park (the easternmost SP in the US!) just outside of Lubec. We walked to the lighthouse there (the easternmost lighthouse in the US!) and hiked on the trails along the ocean cliffs and through the peat bog. On the way back we visited the easternmost gift shop in the US! As you can see, they really beat the "easternmost" theme to death!
We drove the Quoddy Loop: starting in Lubec, head over to Campobello Island, take a ferry (VERY SMALL) to Deer Island, drive across Deer Island & take another ferry to Letete, NB (we visited Green Point Lighthouse there), drive through St. Andrews & St. Stephen, and return to the US in Calais, ME. We ate lunch in St. Andrews and enjoyed walking around the pretty harbor town. St Stephen, also known as Chocolate City, was the home of Ganong Chocolate Factory & Museum (AND Gift Shop of course!). We visited the museum & gift shop. The factory only gives tours during the annual Chocolate Festival, which unfortunately is not while we will be here. The museum was interesting; we learned as much as we want to know about the chocolate dipped candy making process and had some yummy free samples. We also visited the city of Eastport, the Moosehorn Natl Wildlife Refuge and did some more hiking in an area called the Bold Coast, which has wonderfully lovely views of rugged cliffs on the ocean.
Interesting new birds we have seen here are Nashville Warbler, Common Eider and Black Guillemot. We love this area and could easily spend more time here.# posted by Doug and Willie @ 6:51 PM 
