Campobello Island is part of New Brunswick, so upon crossing the bridge we passed through Canadian customs again. The island is about 10 miles long, and has 2 small villages. It is best known for the Roosevelt Campobello International Park, where the summer home of the former US president is located. This memorial is jointly operated by Canada and the USA, the only such international park in the world. Exactly half of the employees are Canadians, the other half are US citizens.

The Roosevelt family’s former summer home is now open to public tours, conducted by friendly, professional guides. The Roosevelt cottage and grounds are beautiful, quiet, and picturesque...you could easily see why he brought his family here so often and referred to Campobello as his "much beloved island."

Also on the island, we discovered Herring Cove Provincial Park, tucked away in the woods near a beach. With 76 campsites, smaller campers seem to get the premium spots here: private, wooded sites with electric and water, so quiet you could hear a pin drop. What a find.... We set up the Aliner to stay for the night.

Then we went for a tour of the north end of the island to visit the East Quoddy Head Lighthouse, the oldest (1829) still functioning lighthouse on the Bay of Fundy. Along the way we saw two eagles perched on a rock within easy viewing from the road so we stopped... They just sat together on that rock as if posing for our cameras.

The lighthouse is on a rocky outcropping from the most northern point of the island. At high tide, it actually is on its own island, but for about 2 hours during low tide, a gorge appears, full of rocks covered with sea vegetation. To get to the lighthouse it is necessary to climb down into the gorge and work your way across slippery, moss covered rocks until you see the lighthouse on the final "rocky" surface.
There are old iron ladders anchored into the sides of rocks to help you get down into the gorge and up onto the next rock... a challenging climb that I decided to take to get better pictures.

Suzanne shot up a roll of film watching me climbing up and down the iron ladders and crawling over the rocks in the gorge. There were warning signs that the tide rises at the rate of 5 feet an hour, up to 30 feet so you could get stranded on one of the little islands if you are not careful (you can get tide schedules at the information booth by the bridge). Before I started the climb, Suzanne made sure she had the car keys – she said there was no reason for both of us to get stranded!