I left the market and walked the downtown a little. This is Kings Square. A few blocks to the south is Queens Square.

Sit. Stay.

The Trinity Church Between Charlotte and Germain Streets. There are a lot of churches in Canada. I'm not sure what that means, but you'll see more pictures of churches later. Most are well kept and most are worth the stop for a picture.

A church of a different kind - found in a back alley.
 

The sign in the front says,
"If it doesn't feel good, it's not worth doin'." Just imagine!

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St John hosts the New Brunswick Museum, a nice museum of the natural and human history of New Brunswick.
You can find more info here.

Lobster Pot and history. Actually, I've found people along the shore using this older type pot - see later pic.

More inside the museum. Very nicely done.
 

Detail of a propeller pitch control.

Boat Building was a big business along the coast - timber was plentiful.

So on the way home to St Martin I saw a sign for a covered bridge and thought it might be a nice photo opportunity. There are a lot of covered bridges in the Maritimes - this one turned out to be not worth the trip. But I did run across this opportunity. A lobster boat at dock - and at low tide. The far dock has a pile of the older wooden lobster pots - which are being replaced with the more durable and cheaper wire pots. It looks like a lot of the lobster men, converting from the wooden pots to the wire pots, are selling the wooden ones to "Antique" dealers for sale to the public. I've seen a lot of them for sale.
We're in a low spot between two headlands and the fog is collecting!! Time to get going!!

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"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go.  I travel for travel's sake.  The great affair is to move." -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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