Hiking on Friday

We had hoped to bike some in Fundy National Park, but the trails which indicated that biking was allowed indicated "mountain" biking, and while our bikes have fat tires, their riders (i.e. Carl and I) are not mountain bikers (I, particularly, am not comfortable riding on narrow paths, rough terrain, or 'bumping' up or down the path). So, instead, we decided to try a couple of hikes...

Many of the trails in Fundy are indicated as "difficult". We are more the "easy-to-moderate" type of hikers. But we saw on the campground map that there was a section of a "difficult" trail that passed alongside the campground and had access points from two different places in the campground, so we decided to try it.

Entry point at the parking lot for the trailhead

We were only going to do a very short section.

There were some very pretty areas in the woods,

And the trail wasn't *too* difficult for the part we hiked.

This is part of the Trans Canada Trail

Interesting laid-stone on one part of the trail

We hiked to the intersection with the access to the campground and then headed back to the campground.

We decided we'd like to do a little more hiking, and Carl had researched and found a trail to Laverty Falls.

The Garmin took us to the trailhead -- about 4.5 miles down a dirt road -- glad we had not washed the Jeep!

Entering the trail

Hmmm, it says 2.5km one way (which I calculated to a little less than 2 miles), but the time as 1-1.5 hours one way... since we tend to be on the slower part of the scale, 3 hours... seems like a longish time for less than a four-mile hike...

It was a pretty trail, and the biting flies and mosquitoes weren't *too* bad.

After about an hour of hiking (flat or mostly downhill),

... we arrived at the top of the falls.

Looking over the top of the falls...

... Carl at the top of the falls.

We walked down to the bottom of the falls... they were really pretty. You can possibly see some figures on the left side at the bottom -- that was a family who were enjoying the pool at the base of the falls when we got there.

Testing to see how cold the water was -- it was cold, but not unbearable.

A large group of young people came and were also enjoying playing and swimming in the pool at the base of the falls.

We had not seen that it was touted as a place to come swimming -- obviously almost everyone else who came on the trail knew that!

On the way back -- Carl said that this should be called the "Root Trail" -- there sure were a lot of roots!

Although the trail back was much more uphill, we made it back in just about 10 more minutes than the way down took! It was nice to get to experience two of the trails in Fundy National Park!