Having come to a stop at the US border and not wishing to antagonise US immigration officials, we turned back to St Andrews and St John.

St Andrews is located on the tip of a peninsula in Passamaquoddy Bay and at the mouth of the St Croix River. St Andrews was founded in 1783 by loyalists who left the US after the Revolutionary War and named after St Andrews in Scotland. Since it sits on the edge of the Bay of Fundy, St Andrews experiences large tidal movements.

 













 St Andrews lighthouse, which sits at the tip of the peninsula, is the oldest remaining mainland lighthouse in New Brunswick and is commonly referred to as Pendlebury Lighthouse after the family that tended the lighthouse for almost 100 years from the 1840s to the 1930s.

 

Adjacent to St John is Minister's Island named after a loyalist Anglican priest, Rev Samuel Andrews, who settled the Island in 1786. However, it is more famous as the summer home of William Van Horne, builder of the Canadian Pacifc Railway. At low tide you can walk or drive to the Island along the ocean floor. It was hard to believe there was a road there at high tide.

 

We stayed in St John for two nights and the following day visited downtown St John and mixed with all the passengers from the various cruise ships tied up at the dock. They were obvious with their little passes and name tags swinging freely from their necks as they strode purposefully though the narrow streets of St John.

 

On the northern edge of St John is a large park with lakes and walking trails. We were intrigued with Lily Lake given Trevor's mother's name was Lily, but alas they did not name it in her honour. The walking trails, which were not at all strenuous, were pleasant with beautiful displays of fall colours.