Shediac Mini Trip

Our week spent in a hotel in Moncton was a long stretch of boring punctuated by a few fun excursions, such as breakfast at Cora's (the greatest breakfast place of all time) with K & C, our only friends in all of Southeastern New Brunswick. Another of our "fun" excursions was a trip to the beach in Shediac, also known as the most un-fun beach known to man.

This was the sign we saw upon parking and walking in the direction of the sand.


In D's words, "They banned all things that make beaches fun." I mean, not allowing dogs is totally understandable. The alcohol ban is also somewhat understandable, but who doesn't allow kites and flotation devices ON A BEACH. Maybe they should ban children too. How can they justify not allowing things like water wings and life jackets. That has to be against some sort of basic human safety rights or something.

The actual beach was behind some dunes, so we took turns running up the dunes to look at the beach and take pictures. The tourist brochures bragged about the beauty of the beaches in and around Shediac, and noted that they were the warmest beaches north of the Carolinas. And even though there is no fun allowed on the beach, I will definitely be returning to bask in the sun and play in the water (sans any flotation devices, of course) because it was damn pretty.




We had the dog with us, and figured she wouldn't be allowed on the beach, so we were just planning to walk around anyway. So, we started walking along a paved pathway that ran alongside the dunes. We saw some fun sights and had to listen to some rather awful singing coming from the local restaurant.


Only 10 minutes into our walking, however, we were accosted by the beach police. Apparently dogs were not allowed anywhere in the vicinity in the beach, not even on the paved paths or on the lush green grass that looked like it was meant as a doggy playground. They told us we had to return to our car IMMEDIATELY and then followed us for a minute to make sure we were headed for the parking lot.

By this point were were rather disgruntled, but instead of heading home, we decided to check out the boardwalk. We hopped in the car and drove in that direction only to see a large sign indicating that we had to pay to even enter the boardwalk. It was only $2.00, but since we had no idea what was on the other side of the toll booth, and we were pretty sure Nova wouldn't be allowed out of the car, we opted to just turn around. I did manage to snap a few pictures before we were driven out.



We do plan to return to Shediac some day soon without the dog. I will report back when that happens.