East Coast 2026: Day 5: Bear With Me

It rained. It rained a lot. Forecast said it was going to rain until about noon. We got up, I delayed my walk until better weather and we headed into town to provision.

Yesterday, just as I was completing my walk, a young mother approached pushing a double side by side stroller. One of those big wheel stroller jobbers that says “I do activities”. The lone baby in the under-occupied stroller was dressed in a fuzzy brown one piece suit. Note that I was not wearing glasses. In an attempt to be humorous I said “you have a bear in there” to the mother. After about 15 seconds of processing she called back “a bear, where?”. Now I had some explaining to do. I paused my walk and explained that I was referring the fact that the baby was dressed like a bear. What did I learn? Probably not best to use the word “bear” near a mother walking her baby in the woods. What didn’t I learn? That I shouldn’t talk to strangers. I’ll keep doing that.

Our provisioning today had us stop at Frenchys first. Every Frenchys is different but wonderful. Mrs Milddogs scoured the store whilst Amy and I chilled in the parking lot. I did feel a bit off having not started the day with the morning walk.

Next stop was the grocery store for food provisions. Then the Liquor Barn for some Coors Light for consuming. Last stop Maccas for a quick lunch and back to the beach we go, in the rain.

Fortunately the rain stopped just after lunch and I went for my walk along the highway.

Upon return, we did some Apple sampling from the trees on the property. Then I played a long game of “which one of these keys opens the garage?”. Fortunately I found the right ones in the large clump of miscellaneous keys.

Amy is visiting with her cousin Fergus. Fergus is huge. Like his head is almost the size of Amy.

The sun has come out intermittently. We enjoyed the outdoors when we could.

Did you know that this little triangle is the only spot in Canada where you can see three provinces at once?

No lobster were consumed in the making of this blog. But stay tuned for tomorrow!

That’s about it. You are loved.