we're going to be showing you around atlantic canada

2020 put a halt to all of our international travel plans yet

unexpectedly this has also given us the chance to explore close to home while

going in search of unusual accommodations

so far we've stayed in an off-grid cabin tiny container home and today a

suspended tree tent in this video we'll be exploring a

beautiful area just outside fredericton new brunswick where we'll be camping

along the saint john river hiking in makta quack provincial park

and enjoying some mouth-watering dishes at moco kitchen

but first up a short hike because it was still way too early to check into our

suspended tree tent

well hello hello hey guys back to quack one of our favorite areas

just outside of fredericton yeah just here so close by what is it

like 20 minutes outside the city oh super close yeah exactly just like that

sam has a lovely hat you look like you're going fishing i

love this hat i just i just got it it's my first chance to

wear it there's actually a heat wave today yeah

heat warning gonna be with the humidex in the high 30s so

i need it yeah so the plan right now is to just go

on a little hike through the woods hopefully it'll be a little bit cooler

in the shade and yeah we have a little bit of time before it's time to check

into our floating tent yeah exactly so

um hopefully we'll spot some wildlife too last time we had really good luck we

saw lots of birds we saw a river otter that was the

highlight magdaquack provincial park is a woodland

area that sits along the shores of the saint john river

it has lots of different hiking trails a golf course a campground a beach a

marina plus some fun activities like tree

trekking we decided to tackle alex creek trail since we had a little bit of time

on our hands before check-in

guys we were looking for the river otter that we saw here last time i'm so sad

it's not here today we'll call it randy the river otter randy okay where was

randy what was randy we're here with randy today i didn't see randy

really was not here i can tell you we're enjoying the temperatures out here in

the shade probably five so nice five to ten degrees cooler it's been

great and it smells so fresh like can you

smell the pine not one other person on the trail so far

not a single soul we haven't seen an animal or even a bird

yet so yeah we are walking in the woods alone

but now it's finally time to check into our tree tent

from mac to quack we drove another 12 minutes down route 105 to lower

queensbury which would be home sweet home for the night

all right guys so welcome to home sweet home for the night our unusual

accommodations adventure continues and this time we have chosen

a suspended yes a suspended tree tent i haven't been camping in like

10 years to be honest and when i did go camping in the past it

was just a normal tent on the ground but this one is really

cool because it's attached to three different trees and

it's kind of like just floating about a meter

meter and a half off the ground this particular tent is meant for two people

but apparently they have even bigger ones that are for three people

where you have to like crawl in from underneath there's like an

opening in the middle so yeah tonight we're gonna be in a cozy little tent for

two how are you feeling about this i'm feeling great i

it's it's the perfect little getaway that we've been uh we've been needing we

both had to do we had to do quarantine in new brunswick

oh yes so we each did two weeks of of just being in the condo

all the time and we've also been in the city for a while so it's so great to be

out in nature again it sure is and this place is just a 30

minute drive from downtown fredericton yeah

so a super easy nature escape and a slice of tranquility out here too yes so

we're gonna show your little tent let's show you how

you get in so we are right in front of the river

maybe like three meters away from the water

so this is super peaceful we've got like our own quiet little plot

in the woods there's no one around and yeah i'm gonna show you how we get

into the tent so we're going to unzip it

and then you just kind of lift yourself up

it's not a big distance so this isn't yeah okay and it lowers

with your body weight it's totally fine we've been having quite a few cookies

lately oh my god i'm just getting audrey a lot of desserts a lot of sweets um so

yeah they've left us like these little baggies

so that we can remove our shoes at night put them in here

and yeah why didn't you why didn't you do that look at that

you come right in should i i'll take my shoes off so we can full

thing full tour the full experience and that's fantastic

there's also if you there's a really comfortable mattress they've put here

yeah well it looks cool so nice okay so basically

i'm gonna flip around okay because this is the way we're going to be sleeping

this is kind of the direction yeah like this like this

how do you feel it's so nice no i feel like i'm floating on the water it's

probably because i'm moving right now but the tent kind of like bounces up and

down a little bit so you know what i sleep really well on

trains like whenever there's like a little bit

of motion it just kind of rocks me to sleep so

this will be wonderful and the lady was telling us at night you can see the

fireflies like flying around above you we do have

a rain cover just in case but we've got clear weather

it's scheduled for rain at the moment no rain in sight and this is new

brunswick that can change on a diamond could change

but she also told us you can see the stars out here like we're far away from

the city and there's hardly any light pollution

so apparently the night sky is quite magical

so this is gonna be a fun experience also

there's a houseboat kind of just traveling

right in front of us so sam has run off to get the zoom lens

and show you what that looks like but there you have it there's our little

tent gonna zip this up because we wouldn't

want any mosquitoes or black flies or

anything like that getting in that would not be fun but yeah i'm just

gonna put on my shoes and then we'll show you our private

little beach that we have going on here it's pretty cool

this isn't a tent review by any means but for anyone interested in more

information on this particular one it's a tensile connect two-person tree

tent it has an insect mesh to keep mosquitoes

at bay a rain fly so you can camp through unpredictable weather

and it also has an anti-roll strap so that if you have two people you're not

rolling into the middle of the tent at night

so this right here is our lovely private beach that we have

all to ourselves um our airbnb host was telling us that the couple who stayed

here last actually made a little fire there's

some logs we can see some boats going by there was

like a houseboat there's some speed boats

there's people out canoeing paddling it's just a really nice summer day to be

out on the water but for now we've got this lovely private beach

we're also going to be heading back to magdaquag to do a little bit more hiking

and later on we're going to take you to one

of our favorite restaurants it's called moco i've been to this location once

before and they just have amazing food like

right now i am fantasizing about their seafood pasta i hope that is

still on the menu because that's what i want to have

i'm i'm fantasizing about us doing a lot of hiking so we built up a

good application later yeah we then drove back to mac to

quack where we opted to do the beaver pawn hike before

dinner this is a super easy trail that's a 0.9 kilometer loop where you can see

an old beaver's lodge and walk along a section of boardwalk

hi hi so we are now on the beaver pond trail

yeah we've been here once before and we learned that there are no beavers left

because they chopped down all the trees they could chop down they've been

relocated the tree bark yeah so no beavers have to be from pond

but you can spot um a lot of frogs you can spot ducks you

can spot birds and so far we've spotted no other humans

no we're the only ones here yeah which is

again really nice i think it's because it's a little too

hot to be out hiking right now during the heat wave yeah you don't see

as many people out hiking yeah but we have found this nice little shady

reprieve and we are working up a nice appetite

for supper oh yes that is definitely on our minds at this point um

actually we're probably less than an hour away from eating so i'm ready i'm

ready too let's do it

then we drove to moko kitchen at magda quack the restaurant is located in the

golf course clubhouse and they have some mouth-watering dishes featuring fresh

and local ingredients sam and i both knew what we were

ordering before we even got there so i'm eating exactly the same dish i

ordered last time i was here because it was

so good i couldn't stop thinking about it yeah

i got the seafood petuchini scallops shrimp and haddock i believe it

has fish lots of parmesan cheese on top

and it just smells so good toasted bread as well

and that is precisely what i've been fantasizing about oh

that looks so good so good yes every bite huh maritime classic

you get the best fish and chips in all of canada out here

bar none atlantic canada you can never go wrong

with this type of food guys when you're out here and again

we've had this here before amazing oh yeah

you gotta have it in the tartar sauce sauce yeah tartar sauce for the win

every time it's bao fundy tartar sausage i saw it

on the menu there's jalapeno in it i've got some cook that fish

again crispy on the outside and just juicy delicious

what a meal

sam couldn't resist dessert when the menu came around so he got us a slice of

carrot cake with cream cheese icing and a turtle cheesecake with chocolate

caramel and pecans it was just too hard choosing between

his two favorites

all right guys so we have made it back to camp the wind has actually picked up

quite a bit we were thinking of having our beer and chippy

down by the by the beach but it's a little bit windy so we found a bit of a

quieter spot here in the woods now we're sitting on a log yeah we've

got maritime specifically new brunswick products oh

for a little snack yeah you've got a crafty rattler

i have the maritime pale ale this one's brood and fredericton yours is from st

john and then this is really cool atlantic

lobster chips it is a it's a new brunswick company

and they make delicious chips and i've never tried their atlantic lobster one

wow we just finished having dinner at moco

over in quack but we thought ooh this is fizzy

we thought it'd be nice to sit down have a little drink here at

camp cheers to you hmm can i try yours too that's good sure

what do you think of this one i know i like mine i'm not sure i'm

gonna like yours oh yours is really fruity and sweet i think i prefer

mine and yours is more bitter yep well we made the right choices to

each his own we wanted to try um some local chips and

we found a very unusual flavor lobster chips atlantic lobster chips i

like it so far it's got tons of flavor it smells smoky it does

it's got a smoky taste it reminds me a bit of barbecue chips

to be honest yeah so this is the first of several trips we're going to be doing

around new brunswick this summer we are here visiting sam's parents i

just finished my quarantine you had been done for a little while

right and we thought a little getaway would be a fun way to celebrate

after being locked up for 14 days so yeah right now we are in lower

queensbury and it's so nice out here it's so peaceful

that's the amazing thing about this province is like you can be based in a

city and you know you're 20 or 30 minutes

away from lakes rivers wilderness it's awesome it's so

easy to escape the urban uh environment i mean uh new brunswick has

so much to offer guys it's a very underrated province in

canada and uh it's not to be missed well we have crawled into our little

tent feeling pretty cozy in here hi i got my