(photo © kiwidutch)
Ok, it’s fine if you don’t get the first part of the title to this post. Please let me explain. As a fanatical foodie, I am a long term member of the cooking website Recipezaar.com, and My screen-name there, as on this Blog is “Kiwidutch“.
Another long term member on “Zaar” and her hubby, share the screen name “Sackville”.
It took a while before I found out that this cooking couple’s screen-name is in fact a real place, in New Brunswick, Canada.
It’s a town close to the Nova Scotia border and a university town and where the pair met. This remarkable couple have been touring the world for the last 3 years by bicycle !…
That’s packing the bare essentials in pannier bags, a tent and transversing 30 countries and 46 000 miles of peddle-power covering every terrain imaginable and in all weathers.
They have experienced many adventures, shared funny, startling, brilliant moments, and met amazing people, experienced wonderful cultures, unusual food and many enjoyable enlightening moments. They Blog too… and I’d highly recommend a visit to their website: The Travelling Two.
The friend we are staying with in Maine (and traveling with here in Canada) is also a cooking friend that I met on-line via Zaar. Her screen name is “Elmotoo”. They visited us in The Netherlands a while ago and now we are returning the visit… … and having just too much of an excellent time together !
It just goes to show that you can meet some amazing people on line on via the internet. Naturally, you need to be cautious and take some time to get to know them first of course.
Sooo… Kiwidutch, Elmotoo and Sackville are all cooking friends… and now Elmotoo and Kiwidutch are visiting Sackville where Sackville comes from!
(photo © kiwidutch)
Our first stop is a photo opportunity next to a convenient sign so that we can post out cycling friends a note to say that we really have stopped by … and then it’s off to the Visitors Center around the corner because we have read about several places in Sackville that we would like to see further.
One of these is the Sackville Waterfowl Park, the other is Tantramar Wetlands Center and Silver Lake, but there probably won’t be time to visit them both so the Visitor’s Center should hopefully be able to advise us on which is best for us today.
(photo © kiwidutch)
We are in luck.. the Waterfowl Park is situated right next to the Visitors Center and after a look around the arts, crafts and displays in the center we all tumble outdoors into the fresh air and sunshine for a lovely walk.
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
we come across a small covered bridge…
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
And the view out the window…
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The board walks take us across water, to little islands, and though the wetlands…
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
I can see little creatures and plants…
(photo © kiwidutch)
..and a bigger one too.. is this a water vole? He’s sitting busy in the grasses… the rest of our party have raced on ahead and since I’m quietly following taking photo.. they missed this little chappie. I do have two camera’s, but the other one that has a far better zoom lens is with my friends daughter, because her own camera’s batteries have died after only a few photos this morning. I do my best to the lesser zoom that this camera has…
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
(photo © kiwidutch)
What a fabulous place…
Tourism Information Centre . 34 Mallard Drive . Sackville . NB E4L 1G6 . 506-364-4967 .
1-800-249-2020 . visitor@sackville.com . http://www.sackville.com
