Today we did the rest of the Cabot Trail that we missed yesterday. Again it had beauty all of its own. we saw surf beaches, and lovely scenery, hills covered in trees and a few lakes too

A bog full of insect eating plants and frogs and dragon flies

A moose was by the side of the road just as we went by and we got many fab photos of him. We were a safe distance from him, don’t panic.

It was much cooler today 16/17*c and windy. the air was clearer and refreshing.

I hope Louis is enjoying his school holidays and that Otis and Lily enjoyed their summer parties. Love to my babies Xavi and Alice and to my lovely Anona. You are all lovely!

xxx

 

We covered about a third of the Cabot trail through the national park today.

We saw such beauty in the landscape and seascapes

 

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It was soooo hot this afternoon too and so windy too. We took lots of pics and I had a paddle in the freezing sea.

Do you like Grandad Moose? and funny hat Grandad!

We found a lovely bakery café about 1 1/2 hours travel away and stopped there for lunch and tea on the way back.( we didn’t get back to the hotel until 7pm  so mostly just photos today). We have now booked up all hotels until we leave on 29 July …phew!

hi Here is my last sight of Prince Edward islandand now the view from our Sydney Nova Scotia hotel bedroomwe had a fantastic sunset view last evening!

Now for a day of exploring Cape Breton part of Nova Scotia xxx

Hi everyone we’ve arrived in Nova Scotia.

We left PEI via the ferry and then had a 3 1/2 hour journey to Sydney. We are in the Holiday Inn right on the water front with an amazing view from our window.

Here are a couple of pictures as we travelled along the highway to Sidney, and we are looking forward to seeing more beautiful sights over the next 2 weeks.

This evening we walked down along the board walk around the waterfront. There was a bagpipe band practising and we bought fish and chips from a kiosk and ate them in the sunshine while we listened to the music.

There is a lovely sunset just developing so I’ll post photos of this when I can. It is very hot still with temps from 25*C o 32*c and due to last another 8 day or so.

 

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

Last day in June

We have a heat wave now, very hot and will last into end of next week. So that looks good for visiting Prince Edward Island.

We went south to the border town of St Stephen today, and people talked to us about politics. All were anti Trump. He has put taxes on Canadian imports and they are retaliating. Then we saw people demonstrating at the border and one shook his fist at our New York reg car… and we are not American😜

Then we met some one from Boston who was fed up with the protesting and fed up with Trump. And we have brexit to contend with!

Do you like the lighthouse and the statue of the “time and universe”?

Well we found a nature park to explore. We almost had the whole place to ourselves and it was so lovely. There were meadows, forest and seaside areas, all natural and deserted. Ganong nature park was so pretty. We stayed there a long time.

We continued back toward Saint John and stopped at St. Andrews. It is an old colonial town and also had a blockhouse fortification with cannons. This is the one at Saint John

This is the one at St Andrews.

They were built of wood and for protecting the towns from invasion by the Americans in the 1770s

It has been hot all day and oh yes we found the illusive lighthouse near Saint John this morning and it was covered in graffiti and quite disappointing.

Hope you are liking my blogs and photos

Love and kisses to you all

So today we didn’t want to travel far after yesterday’s trip! We went to explore Saint John.

First we explored around the harbour. It was very foggy with mist rolling from the port into the town. Out of the mist and in a bit of sunshine it was so much warmer. The weather has been strange all day… more about it later..

We met this very friendly moose, weren’t we brave Louis Otis Alice and Xavi!outside the shopping mall we saw this artwork it made me smile!next we found the famous indoor market. I tried the local delicacy of dried seaweed called Dulce that they eat like crisps. It was disgusting. It tasted like school dinner green cabbage that had been stewed in salt for hours, I didn’t buy any!

The market was built on a hillside and not levelled so we walked down steeply and then back up. It was a lovely old building.

Next we visited an historical house owned by a loyalist. Many escaped as refugees from America after 1780s. All the furniture and belongings were kept by the same family over the generations and so it is true to how it was originally.

Next we tried without success to find a lighthouse but it was so foggy we didn’t see it, so we may try tomorrow.This is Martello Tower. A fortification to rebel the French and Americans.

It was now late afternoon and we explored a nature reserve that juts into the sea. There is a path all the way round and a dirt track for cars to follow. The sun was burning through and we sat on a rocky beach in the warm. The mist was rolling in over the sea.

This was the hottest time of the day but it didn’t last long for the skies blackened and we now have thunder and heavy rain with also a beautiful pink sunset, how weird is that!

Hope you’re enjoying the heat wave. We are supposed to be getting one here from tomorrow into next week, fingers crossed.

Xxxxx