The morning seems darker today when I woke up looked out the front window as I turned on the laptop and the fog or sea mist had set in. It was 6.00am and outside was like pea soup I hope it will be better when we go to the Acadian Historical Village for the 10.00am tour this morning. Finished yesterday blog when Richard got up at 7.00am I made coffee for us while Richard had his shower and then before I could have my shower John Skyped me and I had a long talk to Phyllis. Richard hopped on the laptop to look at a few different things.

  Richard went out on the porch with his ipad (that is the best place to get a connection for his ipad) but he wasn't having much luck. I took a photo of him then made our lunch and coffee the fog is still thick and it is quite cool.

It's just after 9.00am so time to go to the Acadian Historical Village takes about 20 – 30 minutes to get there up the coast. Bit dangerous on the road it reminds us of Ecluelet on Vancouver Island when we drove to Tofino. I thought we were going the wrong way and told Richard to turn around big mistake Richard took off on the wrong (left-hand side) of the road. Gave us and the other two drivers a fright plus increased Richards pulse rate naughty me couldn't stop laughing. Then when we were going the other way I realized Richard was going the right way so we had to do a u-turn and go the right way.

This was a bad start to the day travelling along the coast road the fog was still pretty thick the
sun was trying to shine through plus we were low on petrol and we couldn't stop at Grande-Anse as it was getting close to 10.00am for the tour. Just made it in time to pay and go to the toilet before the tour. The Guide was dressed in period costume plus he gave us an English version of the Tour Map/Guide. Seeing there were French speaking people in the group he did the tour in French and English.

  We were a bit disappointed as we thought the village was a authentic original village. The buildings are original but come from different parts of New Brunswick the first being Martin House dating back to 1773 the next section of the village was in the 1800's and the last being the town was in the early 1900's and there are some reproductions as the original buildings are still being used in the original towns either as restaurants or some other sort of business. I was lagging behind taking a video when I ran across the field onto the gravel road to catch up with the group I went for a sixer fell over like a beauty. Mum won't be too happy I cracked the glass on her watch and had a bit of blood and gusts on my arms. Quick dust and I was right but Richard was a bit upset so he came he a good dressing down. The tour lasted two hours when we went back to the car we had a coffee and biscuit on the outdoor setting.

Back on the coast road again to Grande-Anse to get some petrol $125.2 travelling back passed
Janeville turned onto Hwy 134 the “Acadian Scenic Drive” to Belledune. The weather is true to form now it is warm, blue sky and sunny. There is a haze on the horizon you can't see Quebec Province only a faint outline. The views along here are the same as Hwy 11 going to the Acadian Village homes on both sides of the road with maple and black spruce forest, wetlands and forest in the distance. Lots of homes, cottages on the shoreline and in some parts the road is next to the Saint Lawrence River. Now we are driving through the autumn coloured forest with a sprinkling of homes in between before we turn at Daly Point Natural Reserve at Salmon Beach.

Poor Jill is getting very confused by us staying in Hwy 134 “The Acadian Scenic Drive” it is a pity we had to go through Bathurst and Bereford another big sprawling town with homes on both sides of the highway through to Nigadoo a French town with the base of the lightpoles painted red, white and blue the colour of the French flag. Now we can see the water of the bay behind the homes, passing through Petit-Rocher this highway is one long road of houses, motels and cottages by the shoreline. Drove over a few rivers then came to another French town Pointe-Verte on the shoreline of the bay. All the towns along hwy 134 fly the French flag and the signs are in French what I thought would be a scenic drive turned into a slow nightmare. Poor Richard was driving through suburbia near all the way should have gone on Hwy 11 it would have been much quicker. Now passing Brunswick Smelter and the industrial area then at last back to the maple forest then a big lumber/timber yard and homes by the shoreline all the way to Belledune.

Once at Belledune Jill lead us up the garden path again down some dirt track had to go to a supermarket for directions and potato chips to ward of the hunger plus go to the tiolet seeing we were both busting. Then the directions we were given put us on Hwy 11 no signs anywhere to say where Salmon Barrier on Jacquet River was. Richard and I wanted to see the man made
hatchery in operation. Eg. a salmon hatched in the Jacquet River will return as an adult and spawn only in that river. By the 1990s the salmon gene pool for the Jacquet River was almost extinct. Since the implementation of this conservation effort, the salmon population in the Jacquet River has increased substantially.

I told Richard to turn off at Hwy 257 to go under Hwy 11 and go back to Janeville but Richard wanted to follow Jill and we ended up 50kms out of our way because Jill took us to the next off ramp to go back. Not happy Jan!! Hwy 11 was quick but we went miles out of our way and we were quite mad that we didn't find Salmon Barrier should send them an email to tell them to put up some signs on the highway and roads to where they are.

Had coffee on the road and lunch once we got back to the cottage at 4.00pm. Richard was very tired and had a nana nap while I went online to book a cottage near Hopewell Hill in Bay of Fundy where the tides drop and you can walk on the ocean floor. While I was deeply engrossed in doing this there was an all mighty crack of lightning and thunder then rain. This woke Richard
and gave me a good fright told him I found a nice cottage near Hopewell Hill. Checked the review on Trip Advisor and booked it for two nights (lucky because it was the last one) then tried finding
somewhere in Saint John when I saw Linda was online so I Skyped her and had a catch up conversation.

  Richard and I decided not to go to Saint John as Richard checked out the attractions and the Reversing Rapids near Saint John didn't get that good a review on Trip Advisor.   The sun was setting and Richard took some photos while I cooked dinner. Thankfully the rain stopped and Richard put the BBQ on for the pork loin. Finished the sliced pineapple before we relaxed I downloaded the photos and the sunset ones turned out great. Caught up with today’s blog will download tomorrow morning with the Internet is not playing up.

Watched some TV while Richard used the laptop to cold to go outside to use his ipad. Good movie watched the end and went to bed last time in a small double bed that squeaks every time you get out.