Day 81 Sprinter Pembroke, ME-Dipper Harbour Back Cove, NB Canada

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Day 81 Pembroke, ME-Dipper Harbour Back Cove, NB Canada 10.20.16

Woke to the sunrise over the Cobscook Reversing Falls. This place is in my top 5 camping spots on this trip.  Last nite, we could see white turmoil and hear the water rushing over the rocks as the tide rose.  It sounded like we were camped near a Grand Canyon rapid. This morning, low tide had exposed all of the rocks creating those rapids.  The views were awesome and we really didn't want to leave so we did some van cleaning and chatted with a guy that tent camped there with us last night.  Around 10am, we finally got back on the road heading up the coast of Maine to the border town of Calias, ME.  Before we crossed the border we filled up with fuel and surprise surprise there was a McDonalds next door.  So you know what happened next... With our bellies full, we drove to the border crossing. The town had three crossings. We ended up crossing at North Street which was a small quiet crossing into New Brunswick. We were the only ones in line. The Canadian border patrol questioned Kevin about all sorts of things; wanting to make sure we weren't bringing in any goods for sale in our van.  The Canadian border town St Stephen is known as Canada's Chocolate town.  The Ganong brothers have been making chocolates since 1873 and is Canada's oldest candy company.  The old Ganong factory has become the Chocolate Museum, where one can learn about the history of Ganong Brothers.  We opted to buy some chocolates rather than tour the museum for $10 per person.  We are now traveling next to the Bay of Fundy. The bay is known for the largest tidal variances up to 50 ft.  We won't see that kind of variance but it has been about half of that. The landscape changes a lot between high and low tide.  Along our route was a Tim Horton's.  Kevin has been crying about going to one but he wanted his first visit to be in Canada.  It's basically a donut shop. We were not impressed and don't understand what everyone was raving about.  We found a nice pullout along NB 790 near Dipper Harbour Back Cove to stop and watch the tide recede and spend the night.