2019 New Brunswick - part 13, St. Martins: low and high tide, lobster lunch - Travel With Us

Today’s outing was a drive north from Saint John about 45 minutes away to St. Martins on Fundy Bay. Our main goal was to drive the Fundy Trail, but first we looked around the harbor at high tide, had lunch, took our drive, came back to the same harbor places at low tide, and finally took in a museum. This post is about the low and high tides and lunch.

The lighthouse now houses the visitors center.

And we had a great time talking with Brian who staffs the center. He’s from the area and told us some great stories. He also answered our question about the use of the boxes in the next picture.

As we were driving into St. Martins, we saw these wooden boxes at the end of many driveways. Ken told us that they were to hold garbage bags for early morning pickups.

Since he used to drive snow plows in the winter, he said residents had to be careful about putting the boxes too close to the road or it would be covered by snow from the plows.

Now for the tide changes. I’m going to put low and high tide pictures together for each location.

caves

harbor

entrance to harbor

Quite a difference in tides! Now for lunch. We saw so many tour buses in town and found out that St. Martins is an excursion destination for the cruise lines that dock in Saint John. Buses bring people to town, they enjoy the tides and walking on the beach, have lunch at one of 2 restaurants in this area, and drive back—a nice 2.5 hour excursion. At the height of the “season,” up to 34 tour buses dropped off people for lunch.

Today we only saw about 10 buses so didn’t have crowds for lunch, especially since we ate early.

lobster chowder and a lobster roll for lunch – yum!

As we walked up to the counter to pay, I saw this picture hanging on the wall. The image of a beautiful tree with deep roots has been a powerful one for me over the years.