Saint John, New Brunswick

We drove to Saint John, New Brunswick (not to be confused with St John's, Newfoundland) on Wednesday. We made it over the border easily, and got onto Highway 1 which was a nice 4-lane divided highway with almost no traffic until we got to Saint John. In Saint John, it was significantly busier and under construction. We got to our campground, Rockwood Park, which is little more than a gravel lot, but it is right in town, so location is everything.

We wanted to see the reversing rapids in Saint John -- to see them, you need to go to the overlook at low tide, slack tide (between low and high) and high tide. On Thursday, we went to view the rapids at low and slack tide. The interesting thing is that the Saint John River empties into the Bay of Fundy, and the tides on the Bay of Fundy have such a huge tidal change that the water pushes up the Saint John River causing it to flow up-river during high tide. Hopefully we'll have pictures and/or videos to share of all 3 tidal points for another blog entry.

When we were out on Thursday morning, we also went downtown to see some sites...

We found parking on the street that ran behind Trinity Anglican Church.

We walked past King's Square and found our way inside...

... the Saint John City Market.

We had seen Fiddleheads being sold along the roadside in Maine - we decided to get some at the market.

We found that we could walk inside passing between several market areas, ending at Market Square. This was an open area inside the building -- it seemed to be pretty upscale, and appeared to be new and not yet fully occupied.

There were a number of levels in a couple of the market buildings (this particular picture was in Marked Square). Note the phone booth capable of supporting a Clark-Kent-to-Superman transformation!

Saint John is very hilly -- looking at a map, it is confusing that there are roads that appear to parallel each other but have no connecting streets, until you're on them and realize that one of the roads is at a significantly higher (or lower) elevation.