Keith's Odyssey to Planet Fitness: THE tourist thing in Shediac

Thursday, October 23, 2025

THE tourist thing in Shediac

Many Canadian cities and towns have a giant roadside attraction. The Vegreville Egg, the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, the Sudbury Nickel, the Echo Bay Loonie, the Wawa Goose, the Drumheller Dinosaur, the Sparwood Dump Truck, the Beaverlodge Beaver (what else?), the Moose Jaw Moose (again, what else), the Sydney NS Fiddle, the Medicine Hat Tepee, the list goes on and on. Apologies if I missed your favourite, and feel free to add yours in a comment.

I've seen a few of these, but generally I'm not much interested in the typical tourist attractions that generate the typical tourist photos. I hadn't known Shediac had a giant lobster beside the visitor centre, plus lobster themed stuff everywhere we looked, including bike racks, murals, paving stones.

2. Linda gives you a sense of scale.

3. She felt menaced, but was a good sport and posed.

5. Obviously not us, but this nice couple asked me to take their photo, and I promised to email it to them. Also took one with their camera, since they were using a flimsy selfie stick thingie that kept moving in the wind.

6. In exchange he took these photos of us.

9. OK, I'll come clean. I saw the tail on the first trip back out of town and decided I had to stop and indulge one of my readers. She knows who she is.

10. That other couple again. They one they did of us here was badly out of focus.

11. The iconic red chairs are everywhere in Newfoundland, but we only saw a few in New Brunswick. This twin chair was on Kelly's Beach during our first visit. When we went back for some astro photos a few nights later they were gone. I was disappointed as I thought that setting up the camera nearby and relaxing in the chairs would be a good thing. I guess they store it away for the winter.