Roosevelt Campobella International Park

 Campobello Island is located at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy where the highest tides in the world occur. We went there to visit  the Roosevelt Campobello International Park.  This is also where Passamaquoddy Bay is located if you have heard Anne Murray talk of it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - as a child, a young man and a President - spent many enjoyable vacations on Campobello Island in New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy.With the signing of an international treaty in 1964, President Lyndon Johnson and Prime Minister Lester Pearson created the Roosevelt Campobello International Park as a memorial to President Roosevelt.  The park is a tangible symbol of the friendship between Canada and the US.  It is Canadian soil that has become part of America's heritage and is managed by both the US and Canada.  In addition to the house with it's furnishings being preserved (with a docent in each room to tell its story) there is a big display of 9/11 and how the passengers on the planes that were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland were taken care of by the Canadians as another example of the "enduring friendship" with our neighbors the Canadians.

 After touring the Roosevelt House we learned that there were carriage roads in the area that we could bike.  Yea, we got on our bikes and started out from our campground following the red line on the map that was listed as a carriage road....

 It looked good.....












  the woods was a gorgeous green...but where did the carriage road go?  We ended up pushing our bikes 80% of the way..up hill and down...at least this time we weren't flipping over our handlebars like we did on the California coast when the road disappeared and became a trail.

 So the next morning we headed out to the northern most point of Campobello Island to visit East Quoddy Lighthouse (supposedly the most photographed) which can only be reached  at low tide.  You have to go up and down iron ladders, across a seaweedy rocky beach, over a bridge and more rocks.  It proved to be a great place to see whales - we saw fin whales (second largest) and minke whales as well as seals and numerous varieties of sea gulls.

 

 Fin Whale

 From the light house we drove back down the island and hiked out to a point on the coast.  Across the way we could see the point where there was a sculpture that was part of the sunsweep...a series of 3 sculptures that follow the sun's path from east to west....we had to see it.

Once we got out to the point, it was a great place to once again watch the fin whales......

 

 before we moved on to see more of the Bay of Fundy.