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After backing THE POD into it's new home we took off to do some sightseeing and find some lunch, with a good portion of the day left we drove into the nearby town of Lubec, ME.
Lubec is the easternmost town in the contiguous United States and is home to Quoddy Head State Park. Located inside the park is West Quoddy Head Light, a lighthouse built in 1858 to guide ships through the Quoddy Narrows.
We started this journey in May of 2018 with a visit to the Southernmost Point in the contiguous United States located in Key West, FL and now, in July of 2019, we have visited the Easternmost Point in the contiguous United States, here at the West Quoddy Head Light, ME.
If you're counting, because we are, that's two corners of the United States down, and two to go!
Another point of interest today was where we ate lunch, not so much which restaurant we were at, but actually where we were at. On the back patio of Frank's Dockside Restaurant in the town of Lubec, overlooking the Quoddy Narrows, we were just a few hundred yards from Canada.
If we would have went straight at the last intersection while driving here, instead of turning left to go to the restaurant, we would have gone over the F.D.R. Bridge into Canada. With our passports still back at THE POD that could have been a big problem.
The solar panels are just so more efficient and noiseless. We even pulled out our 200-watt portable panels from the back seat of ROVER and set them up in the bright daylight area of our campsite, first time we've done that in a while. The cell phone signal isn't terribly strong here (2 bars of 3G) so we got out our cell phone booster and made it totally usable for work.
If we get our work done today we might just go into Canada tomorrow for lunch and some more sightseeing on Campobello Island.
We have a few sights planned to visit today, but the first is very time sensitive. We plan on visiting the Head Harbour Lightstation on the northern tip of Campobello Island in New Brunswick. The reason this visit is so time sensitive is because you can only visit there during low tide.
You see the lightstation is on an island, and at low tide you can walk out to it on the dry ocean floor. It just sounded too cool to pass up! This is possible because here, at the bottom of the Bay of Fundy, there is a 10-11 foot difference between low and high tide. You only have a four hour window to visit the lightstation before the ocean floor once again has 10 feet of water over it.
FYI - At the northern end of the Bay of Fundy the tides change a record 53 feet, the largest tidal change anywhere in the world.
Here are a few photos of our visit!
After our visit to the lightstation we headed out to find lunch with a view! We asked all three of the people working at the lightstation where was the best place to eat on the island and they all said the same thing, go to The Pier Waterfront Restaurant. We knew they couldn't all be wrong and they weren't!
We both had their delicious Baked Seafood Casserole, with green beans, sweet potato fries and a bread roll. The only thing better than the food was the view of the calm bay waters from the outdoor dining deck.
With lunch taken care of we still had more to see before heading back to The States. When we were eating at Frank's Dockside a few days ago we could see a small lighthouse across the water inside Canada. We just had to get a closeup look from this side before we left.
Mulholland Point Light is currently being repaired and then will once again be accessible to the public. There is a small museum and information booth operated by volunteers and a pleasant little walking path around the base of the lighthouse.
One more stop! The southern quarter of Campobello Island is one large park, Roosevelt Campobello International Park. At the southern tip of the park is Liberty Point and from that vantage point we were able to zoom in with our camera and get a shot of West Quoddy Head Light from the Canadian shoreline.
Well for a total of 5 hours 27 minutes today we were in Canada! I must say the Canadian Border Agent was very pleasant and asked us the normal questions about whether we were transporting any guns, alcohol, fruits, vegatables or cannabus products. With all those answers being NO we were asked where we were from and how long we planned to visit, then we were good to go.
Coming back into The States we were asked basically the same questions, but this time the agent took a look into ROVER's back seat and wanted to know what all the bins were filled with. Before I could answer he asked if we were camping and I replied YES. He walked around to the back of the truck and peered into the rear window and then slowly returned to my side window before asking where we were camping locally. I told him Cobscook Bay State Park and he then waved me through.
While he was looking in the rear window I had visions that I was going to have to empty the entire truck and submit to a search. There would be nothing to find, but it sure would be a lot of work. In the end all of the fears were for nothing and so ends our first visit to Canada!
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A total two mile hike at the two lighthouses
brings our annual total up to 20.25 miles.
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