Fundy Trail, new Brunswick

Fundy Trail, New Brunswick
Fundy trail runs along the southern coast of new Brunswick and showcases the highest tides in the world. Starting from the east side, you travel along the coastline through Hopewell Cape, Fundy National Park and then the Fundy Trail. Unfortunately, for now, the road is only developed to the Fundy National Park then you have to travel back North to the main road, drive 30 or 40 miles and then drive back south to the Fundy Trail. But, in the next couple of years, the road from the Fundy Trail to Fundy National Park is going to be completed, making this drive much more convenient.
It’s a beautiful drive,even if you don’t stop at any of the sights, the drive is worth it. We briefly stopped at Hopewell Rocks but decided to wait and see Fundy National park instead. We just didn’t have time for both. But, before we got to the park, we stopped at the Hopewell community center at the local museum and had a late lunch. This was a very unusual place. It was an old community center that is still being used for town meetings or something and so there’s a little stage with a bunting and this push button thing to hear speeches from the Prime Minister of Canada which happened to be running when we ate because the people before us had pushed it. It was mildly interesting to see what he had to say: in general it was about how everyone should have basic services no matter what.
One half of the center had four card tables set up with chairs and on the other side was about 100 chairs stacked, ready for the next town meeting. A grandmotherly woman met us when we came in and we asked if they were still serving lunch (it was 3:45 and it said it closed at 4pm and we were starving. We hadn’t eaten since breakfast because the place we planned to have lunch was no longer in existence). She said they were. Menus were on the table and it said: soup, $3, chowder, $5, sandwiches $2.50, bars, $1, dessert $3, Milk $1. So we basically had one of each. The soup was minestrone, the chowder was fish, the sandwich was grilled cheese (the options were egg salad, tuna salad and ham), the only bar left was a brownie and they had one lemon pie left. The soups were great. Perhaps it was because we were starving, but the minestrone despite the way overcooked noodles, was tasty and full flavored, the chowder was excellent and not too rich, and Kesh ate every bite of his sandwich. The brownie was great, moist with melted chocolate chips in it (they heated it up) and the lemon pie majorly sucked. The lady was so nice that we broke the pie into pieces and kesh ferried it to the garbage when the lady wasout of the room so she would think we ate it.
We headed to the national park after that. It was beautiful. The views of the ocean on the drive were spectacular. We stopped at the visitor center but the people weren’t very friendly. We figured out how to get to the beach which was kesh’s interest, and we headed down there. The beach access also has a pool where people were swimming. Then behind the pool was the beach. The tide was almost all the way out so we could walk way out onto the ocean floor.
After visiting the beach, we stopped in the town of Alma which had lots of options for food. We picked up pizza from Sapranos (a play on Sopranos) and took it to our bed and breakfast.
If I were staying in this area again, I would stay at St. Martins, the town nearest the Fundy Trail or Alma. Both of these towns had all the services you would want, were near the parks and had good lodging choices. Where we stayed was beautiful but in the middle of nowhere, which just isn’t preferable.