Adventures: St. Andrews, New Brunswick

So On June 19th my boyfriend and I started our adventures of investigating the Maritimes. This particular occasion we figured we had better keep it somewhat local. With a busy weekend planned and a car not quite up to par we went to St. Andrews, a small-ish touristy town about an hour and a half away from Saint John. The map to the left shows where St. Andrews is in comparison to Saint John. It is the "A" on the map!

We had a quick stop at Tim Horton's for breakfast and then set out on our day-trip adventure. Our first stop was Minister's Island. Literally an island just outside of St. Andrew's that we could only access during low tide. So, we drove across the sand bar while the tide was out and set out on investigating that area. Minister's Island is the largest tidal island in the world-- and former summer residence of Sir William Van Horne. It was indeed very interesting, and astonishingly beautiful. The warm weather New Brunswick is enjoying and being surrounded by water made the time fly by.

Bath House on Minister's Island

Next, we went for lunch-- enjoying a quick bite to eat at a small pub in St. Andrew's. It was shortly after lunch when we embarked on our whale watching adventure.

St. Andrews Main Street

I had heard from a few people that this isn't the best time of year to go, but they had said that whales had been spotted out in the Bay of Fundy. I probably should have listened....some of the boat load did see one whale; a Minky--- but it went back underwater before my boyfriend and I spotted it so we were slightly disappointed with that. The best whale watching period is after the end of August so we will probably go again. We did see bald eagles and harbour seals and learnt interesting facts about the fishing industry, so it wasn't a waste by any means.

Harbour Seal

After whale watching we had planned to go to the Kingbrae Garden, but it takes an hour and a half to walk through and we figured we better do that another time.

So...off we went to Letete- a small community that has a free ferry service which takes passengers to and from Deer Island. The southern tip of Deer Island boasts the largest title whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere. The peak of the whirlpool is about three hours prior to high tide, but the swirling water can be noticed whenever.

Deer Island, NB

Deer Island was the last of our days adventures and so we went home satisfied that we had seen another part of New Brunswick!