RV Travel in North America: 2025 July, August Maine, Newfoundland Canada

OYE, 2 days hard driving and I'm in Augusta, ME taking a day off. Bicycle the Kennebunk River trail of 14 miles is a nice respite for a little exercise. One small portion is in a little town with no bike paths forced to ride a narrow and busy road, do not recommend this trail. Nice murals though!

Tomorrow I will go to Bangor, ME to store the truck at the Air Force base before going to Canada and Newfoundland.

Uneventful border crossing and I stayed and few days in Moncton, NB. The highlight is watching the Bore Tide, this time with a surfer riding the wave!

A bore tide, also known as a tidal bore, is a unique tidal phenomenon where a strong wave of water travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the current. This occurs when the leading edge of an incoming tide pushes against the outgoing tide in a narrow inlet

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Louisbourgh, NS Fortress, a city inside the fort. Canada does an excellent job showing the history, all sites have well trained docents!

The ferry crossing from North Sydney, Nova Scotia to Port Aux Basques, Newfoundland was uneventful. No whales, porpoise but new to me is the fact that I was able to receive a cellular signal for an hour after getting underway. I retired from the Navy before there were cell phones, so I did not experience this before.

What a fascinating country Newfoundland is. The topography is unique and very diverse. I am constantly amazed at the scenery as i drive through. As I look about i want to kayak and fish these rivers and bays. So many lakes with wild shorelines. Yes another trip will be in store with time allocated for kayaking.

My campsite looking at puffins, whales, lighthouse. Wow, I am so blessed to have these opportunities!

Couple of the WINs, Brandy and Paula.

Fox sitting on the root cellar

I met up with the group of WINs at Bonavista, NL. I stayed on the point of land near the lighthouse to watch puffins and whales.

I cant decide if this looks like boobs or plumbers crack?

Got quite a few bike rides in at different places. Festivals tend to be music oriented and unfortunately for me the volume is extremely painful.

Kind of puts things in perspective

Wow, met a local fisherman, asked if he would mind showing me how these traps worked. Holy money, got an hour long demonstration of fisherman life from catch to market! Fascinating!

Holding pens until enough to ship to market.

Remember Newfoundland is an island, everything comes and goes by ferry or airplane.

A Newfoundland initiation ceremony.

Grand Banks festival

Signal Hill, keeps the town safe. Still fire the gun at noon to set Mariners chronometer.

Some of my traveling friends, Linda, Theresa down watching the cannon firing.

Click on the video of the cannon firing.

A Labrador, huge animal

Left to right, Linda, Theresa, Chris, Brenda, me. Missing Paula, Brandy, Liz

Brenda

This is the man who carved the whale bone faces

Cross Canada Highway

Linda, Liz

Linda, Paula

Blueberry's at my campsite, I picked a Tupperware full then placed them in sandwich bags and froze them to eat a little at a time.

Touring the lighthouse at Gros Morne

The father of Flyfishing in America had a home here in Newfoundland, he promoted flyfishing here.

Pitcher plants abound here. Normally this island is quite wet. This year a drought is happening. Which in one respect is good for us travelers rather than alot of rain.

During the hiking tour the guide gave a great lesson on how pitcher plants digest their food. The fly or ant comes in, the sides are slick and have hair that prevents going out. The fly or ant drowns in the water captured in the plant, it slowly dissolves and larvae digest it, the poop from the larva is what feeds the pitcher plant.

This is a point of land sticking out into the ocean that has numerous fossils and other unique rocks.

A boat tour up the fiord - Western Brrok Pond. It is no longer connected to the ocean and has turned all into fresh water. There are no nutrients feeding the lake so few fish or birds.

It is very deep and tall cliffs because of the glacier that carved it out.

On the drive home we saw some moose

This is a boat tour on a Fjord that has been cut off from the ocean and is now a fresh water lake.

The Tablelands is a piece of the earths "Mantle" that has been pushed up to the surface. The soil is extremely toxic with heavy metals and few plants have found a way to attach onto rocks and create a life here. Read the pic.

Pitcher plant does not grow on soil; it is a carnivorous plant that eats insects. The ranger helped explain that the pitcher plant captures water inside its tube, fly's and ants enter and the surface is waxy coating with hair preventing their escape. they drown then larva slowly eats the ants and fly's then when the larva poops that is what the pitcher plant lives on. Wow, survival by poop!

Lunch nearby Tablelands

From left, me, Linda, Theresa, Liz

Seals, when I was traveling along making detours along the shoreline I found several places today that had seals feeding near shore at high tide.

Country ingenuity, a small gas engine connected to a winch then mounted on a ladder to raise shingles onto the roof.

This is labeled sea caves, I think it looks like Boobs or perhaps a plumbers crack?

Lighthouse

Saw this from across the bay, drove over then discovered the pictures from across the bay gave more depth than the pictures up close making them look 3 dimensional. Actually they are because they are painted on very large rocks