After a great sleep and quick shopping trip at Walmart, we began our journey to Shediac, home of Parlee beach, supposedly Canada’s warmest salt water sand beach. Driving through Shediac, we experienced our first tourist town in New Brunswick with lots of people, cars and cute little stores. Our focus was finding the Adorable Chocolate shop and we were very lucky that it offered ice cream as well. Of course we treated ourselves to ice cream before we chose six chocolates to go.

The Parlee Beach Provincial Park campground was only a few kilometres away and we were lucky to still get an electric site on this huge campground. A 15 minute walk to the beach warmed us up for the not quite so warm water. We don’t think it was the 20 degrees that the gatehouse said it was. Nevertheless, our first salt water swim was glorious.