400 year Acadia Congress in progress through the month of August. Deported from France in the early 1600s, these families settled in this part of NB, then 4 years later in Quebec and eventually in Louisianna. Thousands of visitors from all over the world have come to attend family reunions, and the homes and businesses are decorated more than our Christmas. The Acadian flag is blue, white & red with a large yellow star in the top left corner. Everything here is decorated in these colours -lawn furniture, telephone poles, streamers & yard art. We drove to the end of the road of the Miscou Isles, then climbed the 96 stairs of the Miscou lighthouse, which is no longer being used because the light was suspended in Mercury and deemed unsafe to the public. Has now been rebuilt and painted so Mercury is no longer a hazard. Art & Anita have now caught up so we are travelling together. Spent the better part of a day at the Acadian Historical Center near Caraquet, where everything is happening in the 1800s and later the 1900s. This was a real hands on experience to the way they lived in those years and the trades -blacksmithing, broom-making, hat making, tinsmithing, farming, baking, fishing, barrel making, etc. Another day of info overload. Stayed 2 nights at Neguac, lobster clubhouse lunch at Tracadia-Sheila, golfed amongst swarms of mosquitoes at Tabusintac. Lobster and crab fishing is finished for now so hundreds of boats and thousands of lobster cages and crab pots are sitting on land.
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