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St Basile (near Edmundston), New Brunswick, Candada27 Aug 2007
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Longest covered bridge in the world is over 100 yrs old &...
Road view scenery: New Brunswick River Valley & Hills
Road view scenery: New Brunswick riverview
We left Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia about 9 a.m. & got to St. Basile about 6 p.m. We are staying in a small but very nice & quiet RV park. The owners live in a nice house in the front with the campground behind them. We will be leaving tomorrow (Tues) a.m. headed for Quebec City for a few days.
In New Brunswick we drove on the Trans Canada Highway (TCL) #2 which crossed east & west in the lower third, then goes north up to Edmundston where it enters the Quebec province. I took photos along the way because the terrain is different than what we have been through. On the southeastern side it is the mostly flatish land/hills. The rivers drain into the Bay of Fundy. Going thru the middle & up the western side of New Brunswick, it is mostly forest with some good size hills/mountains with plenty of rivers. Many of the rivers are wide & the water is a beautiful dark blue.
They don't seem to have "regular" rest areas as we know them on the main highways, so we stopped at a Visitors Center for a break & brochures. There we learned about the longest covered bridge in the world in Hartland, NB. It is 1,282 feet (391 meters) long & crosses the St. John's River. It officially opened July 4, 1901 as a toll bridge. The tolls were 3 cents for pedestrians, 6 cents for a single horse, 12 cents for a double team & a strip of 20 tickets was 50 cents. In 1922 the bridge was covered. It has been a national historic site since 1980 & the 100th Anniversary was in 2001. It is only one lane wide & we didn't know what the weight limit was or what the parking situation was around it, so we had to settle for seeing it from the new highway. Of course I was taking photos from the RV as we went by & will be sharing one with you.
There were numerous warning signs for moose & in these areas they also had high fences along the highway which were back off the pavement & shoulders. There are so many beautiful areas & things to see that it is hard to keep moving down the road. We have already learned that there are many, many more things to see, do & appreciate than what we have time for. It is kind of like going somewhere new & taking a tour where you get a taste of an area & what is there, but don't have as much time as you'd like to stay longer. We want to see as much as we can & then go back later for longer visits.
(You should be able to change the "view" of the map of our travels to include Canada.)
