Hiking New Brunswick Woods and Shoreline. Oct. 2020

A Thanksgiving weekend getaway rich with nature's beauty and presence - topped off with a showstopper sunset within an hour of home. SO grateful!

The patchwork view and easy 3.5 return Sussex Bluff trail is well worth the diversion if you're travelling the Trans Canada Highway route #1.

It kept getting better ...

Sussex, N.B. is situated in a lovely wide valley between St. John and Moncton. I've always admired the view of the mosaic design of pastoral fields, clumps of trees and roads winding up and over the ridges. On this trip we had the time and the day was perfect to pull off the main highway into Sussex Corner where we joined a host of other hikers enjoying the Sussex Bluff Trail. Wow. My born-and-raised western Canada spirit was over the top.

We celebrated our anniversary a week early with an exquisite dinner at this lovely Rossmount Inn, near St. Andrew's. Its history and location - on Chamcook Mountain - encouraged a stop and short hike the the next morning, en route home to Nova Scotia.

Chamcook Mountain summit.

The plaque reveals another hardship story of immigrants from our past.

The trail was an old road, built back in the day by the Ross family to access the summit of Chamcook Mountain, where they'd take their guests for picnics and to view the panoramic view. Hospital Island can be seen from this lookoff, part way up.

We finished the hike about 20 minutes before the park attendant's suggested deadline time to be driving across this gravel-sand bar back to the mainland. Nothing like a little pressure at the end for us to pick up the pace :) Note: that isn't our car on the photo - it is parked behind yours truly, the photographer.

Ocean view from the estate Bath House.