Escaping a heat wave in Northern New Brunswick

    

    We all wish we knew French at this point. Out of the three of us I know the most. I’ll helpfully say “This store is open”, “That sign says Come Again”, “This says no bikes on the beach”. Basically things that are very obvious to all and often have pictures with the words. 

    A lot of signs say “Le fleuve” because we are by the St. Lawrence. It’s fun to say. I guess rivière means the water is not going to the sea or ocean and le fleuve means it is. The water must be unnamed until you travel to its end to confirm its outflow. I can imagine the explorers refusing to name the water, battling the mosquitos and brush to follow it... they finally reach the end and cries of "Le Fleuve! Le Fleuve!" are heard in the forest.

Restigouche area

    A heat wave has hit us, just as we are switching back to camping. We spent a long day driving to the border of New Brunswick. The fleuves, I mean rivers, here are wide and clear. We found respite from the heat wave in Tide Head. It's a perfect temperature and not too crowded. We paddled around and swam, cooling off in this heat wave nicely. We also saw a Google Street View car, but it's possible the driver was just pulling over to jump in the river himself or we may be on the Tide Head street view.

Elsa would like to do some guest blogging:

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Help! Get me out of here! Send moneyy and i'll fly home. tell oscar i love him. it's not ending! HElp!

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Oh, ha ha, what a little scamp. She is having a great time. She hasn't mooned over her "Toe beans" photo album that much.

An album of Oscar's feet

    

    She is just low on her fuel - Peanut M&M's. I'll throw some her way soon. Maybe we will also pick up a gallon drum of "After-Bite" with a spray nozzle, hose 'er down.

V'al Comeaux

We found a campsite along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It feels like a seaside getaway. We have built sand castles on the beach and watched the sunset. The campground is full of flapping Acadian flags. We can't look up what the whole 'Acadian' thing is, Elsa looked at her flashcards on her phone from Social Studies. It said "Francophone citizen of Acadia". Real helpful! I'll have to check what her marks were in that class. 

    The Acadians are a fun loving bunch anyway, they had an open air bingo that involved people getting up and dancing on stage whilst the crowd cheered and whistled. I didn't think we should go too close, lest they forced us to do a dance. There were also fireworks being set off on the beaches. Josh had a birds eye view of them after they woke him up.

    

    Soon we pick up a new arrival - Charlie! He's going to join our band - "The Complainers". Elsa and I will be relegated to background artists for sure. He is the Ultimate Complainer - he travels with his own spotlight and loud instruments.

Birds n' Mammals

Semipalmated Plovers running in the surf (Lifer!)

An Osprey catching a fish

Common Tern

Ruby throated hummingbirds