Today we explored the Eastern section of Prince Edward Island and again found lovely beaches, farmland growing potatoes and other crops, and lovely seascapes. Everywhere there are lupins growing wild along the fields and roadside. The water is so clear, we have seen seals, bald eagles. osprey blue herons and cormorants today.

I have really enjoyed our time on this friendly island and the sunny hot weather we have fortunately had all the time.

We ended up the day by going into Charlottetown and caught the sunset over the sea near Victoria Park where we saw the fireworks on Canada Day.

Tomorrow we go on the morning ferry over to Nova Scotia. How exciting is that!!

Missing you all and looking forward to all being together again at the end of August.xxx

Today we went to the house that EM Montgomery based her book Ann of Green Gables. It was her grandfathers cousins house and these are a couple of photos I took of the house and Anns bedroom

Here is grandad in Matthews barn (Matthew inthe book) students were dressed up as the characters in the book… A good summer job Anona ??

It was so hot in the 30’s today and humid so we headed for the coast.

Today we explored the north section of the Prince Edward Island. Here we found white sand beaches with very fine sand that stuck to you. This is Belmont Provisional Park We did sunbathe on this beach for a while before travelling to the most northern part of the island.

On the way we stopped for lunch I had clam dinner and grandad had a tasty cheese burger, all home made. MMMM at a café near Summerside.

This is North Cape at the end of northcape drive. It has a sandbank that people were paddling towards

The lighthouse had a huge mast next to it and surrounded by a fence and restaurant and buildings and a wind farm too. I disguised it all in this photo by positioning myself under the embankment and shooting upward. Grandad helped me with this view.

July 4th tomorrow independence day in US, so we’ve missed those fireworks. The ones we saw at Charlottetown were brilliant on Canada day and literally right above us with the sparks falling in the sea close by! Scary but lovely!

We are having a lovely time on PEI xx

Hi today it was a chilly start to the day especially along the coast. We went straight to Cavendish. this is the town where Lucy Maud Montgomery lived as a child and wrote the Ann of Green Gables book. We saw her homestead and met her 4x great grand son.

This is grandad looking down her wonky well and the desk she wrote her books on in the post office room in her house. it was very interesting.

We then went to the national park and along the North of the Island, stopping at view points and taking photos. 

The cliffs were redstone  with dark sand and then there were sand spits of white sand and no cliffs.

Everywhere there were fishing shacks and cafes  selling seafood and ice cream.

 

Sadly I must have eaten chillies in the chowder I had and was very ill, oh dear I’m ok now:)

It got hotter in the afternoon and the sun was strong again.

Hope you like the photos.

 

Hi we travelled up to Prince Edward Island today. There were new parts of the motorway that our sat nav didn’t recognise so that was fun to puzzle out which road we needed to be turning onto, but we made it.

We broke our journey at Le Pays de la Sagouine. It seems to be a sort of outdoor theme park at the town of Bouctouche. It celebrates Canadian French Acadian music and food through drama and role play all in the French language. There are lots of buildings with people dressed in the styles of earlier years and explaining fishing and country life etc We really enjoyed ourselves and they all switched to English for us!

The journey to PEI was brilliant over the confederation bridge. It is a span of 12.9 kilometres and took 10 minutes to cross by car. Looking down on the sea was exciting as I was the passenger and could look!!

Tonight we are going to see the fireworks in Charlottetown at 10 pm. We have flags to wave and we’ve eaten Canada day cake and been given pin badges.

We are in a heatwave like you now …….but fortunately for us, it’s cooler by the coast.

More tomorrow. It’s going to be so great here all we’ve seen so far is lovely xxx