The campground at Headquarters in the Bay of Fundy NationalPark, Alma New Brunswick is a winner. Its a beautiful park, big wide pull through sites, lovely old shade trees. Immaculately clean washrooms and hot water in the showers. It’s also a fairly short walk down to the beach and/or in to town.
We picked a moderate hike fairly close to the campground to get our legs stretched out and to see what the park had to offer. Third Vault Falls promised pretty views and a moderately challenging hike.
A beautiful forest trail and the first km was gently uphill….
………….and then we started gently down, always a bit worrying early in a hike……cos you know you have to go back up at some point….!!!
Then less gently down. We met several people making their way back, looking quite exhausted……well …!!….we thought…it is a hot day..!!!
The descent gradually got steeper, and steeper……interspersed with some straight down staircases to get down some of the worst bits…!!
Then a clamber down some very, very steep stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, looking back up the gully there were little babbling streams through the green covered rocks……it was very pretty but not quite like the pictures from the trail review.
At the bottom of a couple of flights of even steeper yet stairs, the trail continued across the creek….something I had not seen before, the hiking man symbols were painted on the rocks and continued down the stream…..so we followed them…..down and down….
It was nice and cool in the gully with little streams dancing around….and so very pretty…..
Then, ahead there were some people paddling their feet in the stream whilst sitting on the rocks…..and you could just make out the sign that said…..end of trail…!!!
Once you get all the way to the sign ( that actually says ‘end of trail’ ) as you stand right in front of it and can finally see around the corner, looking up to the left this quite spectacular set of waterfalls and all becomes clear…..Its hard to tell from the pictures, but its about 60 feet high.
Then, after a rest and a look around…..its time to climb back up….!!!
…..it was one of the busiest walks we have done, we met lots of people along the way.
It was a very satisfying walk, and definitely among the prettiest we have done.
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OsteoPraxis on the road 
What a pretty trail. Challenging clamber down & up the gully, but well worth it by the photos.
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Should have taken our swimmies……..there were people swimming in the pool at the bottom of the falls….cold…but spectacular…!!!
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That would have been lovely. 🏊🏻🏊🏾♀️
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Did you think you may have run into Frodo or Bilbo? I certainly thought there may have been some of the”little people” of our ancestors peeking out at you from deep in the roots in photo 36 . Please tell the photographer that his capture of the moss on the stones made me want to reach into the photo and run my fingers along the soft surface.There must have been a wonderful rich smell being so deep ( down). You have gone from the top of the mountains, touching the sky to the bottom of the woods,base if the falls all in the span of a year. Pacific to Atlantic, and all the prairies and gophers in between. What an adventure for the senses, a treat for the soul. Glad you have given us a chance to tag along.
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You are spot on…it was definitely that kind of place. …..and yes the forest smell was quite glorious…..😁
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It’s great to see the whole country through your eyes.
Wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks for tagging along……makes the effort worthwhile….😁
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