Travelling with Pets
Chewy's Amazing Adventure (page 2)
Wild Animals and Wilderness
It takes a day from Riviere Du Loop to Miramishi New Brunswick where my older daughter lives.
Once in New Brunswick, as there are no rest areas, we stopped at Grand Falls. The small park gave the dogs a good place for a walk. There is a good overlook at the falls. When we were there with Chewy in August, the dry weather meant the falls were only a trickle, bu tin June, the falls overflow with Spring runoff.
After our picnic, we headed off to the only road that goes through the middle of New Brunswick from Plaster Rock to Miramichi. It’s been recently redone, but there are still some bad patches. It is two lanes, a cellphone dead zone and trucks roar along it. Not to mention the wild animals.
My daughter met a black bear in the middle of this road. It wouldn’t move off the road for her car for a good while. We have seen moose at the side of the road and this trip a large deer ran across in front of the car.
Be careful at night, actually I wouldn’t go on this road at night, hitting a moose can kill you and car lights are too low to see the animal’s body, they shine through the legs (You didn’t think moose were that big did you, I know I didn’t). My older daughter comes along this road in the dead of winter and I wish she wouldn’t.
We made it to Miramichi. The dogs were delighted to see each other although Chewy was afraid of Eddie because he was such a big dog. Chewy barked at him and generally made a nuisance of himself. Eddie ignored him.
