News Flash!

This just in from New Brunswick, Canada. There are no more moose nor lobster in New Brunswick. The province is in chaos!

Actually, it is true….there are no Moose in NB. We have driven hundreds of miles on highways that have “Attention Moose Next 10 miles” signs and small back roads, even some dirt roads, and there are no moose.  Not a single, bloody one!

As far as lobsters go, we decided to go to Shediac, the self-proclaimed World’s Lobster Capital and sat down to dinner and were told that they had everything on the menu…..except lobster! WTF!! We have been told by 2 different vendors that the lobster season is terrible up here. Does this picture look like there are no lobsters?

This is a holding tank and each of those plastic bins is filled with lobsters that they can keep alive for 3 months!!!! And in front of that tank and dozens and dozens of plastic bins filled like this one.

Here is hoping for more lobsters and moose in Nova Scotia.

In other news, the cord that transfers photos from the camera to the computer is MIA. The Bay of Fundy and the flower pots are fabulous but most of the pics are on the camera and not our phones so photos will have to be published when we find that cord. So pictures will be few right now….but we will catch up later.

And in other other news, here is the New Brunswick Top 10:

1. They really don’t have any special cuisine of their own.
2. The architecture is pretty non-distinct….a mix of New England and East Coast in general.
3. People are very friendly and have no accent at all…have not heard a single “eh” or “aboot”. However, the further north we got, we began to hear some French accents.
4. New Brunswick roads are crap.
5. There are no road cyclists here…see #4.
6. They let you do stuff here that would never fly in the States…like let people enter the Hopewell Rocks park when the park is closed; they just ask that you don’t park in their lot. You can swim off the wharf in Pointe-du-Chêne right next to where the tour boats come in and go out.
7. A big thrill must be making tire doughnuts on the road…there were back roads that were literally almost black (the roads here are reddish) from tire marks. You will have to wait for the picture since it is on the camera.
8. People only clean out their basements once every 20 years here. It must be “put whatever the hell you want at the curb” trash day tomorrow because there were huge piles of crap….beds, grills, toys, air hockey tables….you name it in huge piles everywhere! If only our car had more room in it……
9. I don’t think we have seen more than one piece of litter and no Private Property signs. You can pretty much go anywhere, it seems.
10. The garbage system: they don’t do trash and recyclables like we do. They do “wet” and “dry”. The wet goes in the green bag and the dry goes in the blue bag. The problem is figuring out what is wet/dry. Like the styrofoam tray that came with the ground beef…it is wet from the burger but is normally dry…how about the cellophane the beef came wrapped in…we would never throw that in with our bottles/cans but they do. Throwing away a piece of trash requires way too much thinking here!