Fall Day in the Woods

Thanksgiving on the Beach

On Thanksgiving Monday we took a couple of cars down to Fairfield, NB, to visit the community where my great-grandmother lived. We also checked out St. Martin's, NB, which became the scene of a very memorable Thanksgiving dinner.





Imagine eating a plate of squash, potatoes, dressing, carrots, gravy and TURKEY with your family while sitting around a campfire on a beach! This is what we did this Thanksgiving, and it was a very memorable one!



It got quite cool as the sun went down but our fire was burning strong, and it made for a great picture of a silhouette of a "flower-pot rock" along the shoreline.

TreeGo

For 3 hours this afternoon, we tried out the brand new TreeGo course at Mactaquac Provincial Park.

After a brief introduction to the basic equipment (we each had a waist and leg harness including 2 regular carabiners attached to a foot and a half of rope each + 1 zip-line attachment) and safety procedures, we were set loose on the obstacle course.

There were actually four separate courses which increased in difficulty as we advanced. The variety of obstacles kept it a lot of fun; we experienced swinging logs, rope bridges, crawled through tunnels, swung on "Tarzan ropes", tight-rope walked, and (our favourite) zip-lined, all at up to 70 feet above the forest floor.



The highlight of the course was probably the long zip-line that spanned a section of the boat marina, below.