St. John New Brunswick

Another beautiful day. A little cool in the morning, but sunny and warm in the afternoon. Today we arrived in St. John New Brunswick at about 9:00 AM. There were two other cruise ships in the harbor along with ours, so the town was full of cruisers, but the people were very friendly and welcoming. Every woman who got off a ship received a long stem red rose from city greeters, and the men received a little pin that said St. John on it. We started out with a little trolley ride around the town to get our bearings, and then spent the rest of our time wandering around. The trolley took us to one of St. John's well known attractions, the famous reversing falls. St John is located on the Bay of Fundy, which has the highest tides in the world. At high tide it rises over 15 feet, which is actually enough to reverse the flow of the St. John River which normally runs into the sea like all good rivers, except at high tide it actually flows backwards and an area of rapids and falls reverses direction. Our pictures today are of the flowers in the public square, us posing with a bronze moose, the skyline of the city as the ship was docking, inside a wonderful public market that we spent time in and finally an unusual two story band stand in the public square. Tomorrow it's on to Bar Harbor Maine and back to the USA.