Cavendish Country Inn

... bereits Mitte September fertig.

Am späteren Nachmittag sind wir im Campground angekommen und wir gingen nochmals am Strand spazieren. Die Moskitos frassen uns fast auf, dabei heisst es doch immer, die seien im Juli und August am schlimmsten.
Wir fanden am Strand viele Muscheln, welche Nataschas Sammlerherz wieder höher schlagen liessen!

September 29, 2009

The morning's drive took us through a beautiful area between Malignant Cove and Pictou where we will board the ferry to Prince Edward Island. We stopped in the picturesque fishing village of Arisaig and a nearby provincial park with trails to the beach. Purportedly the rock cliffs along the beach contain fossils but we were unable to find them, still it was a nice walk and pleasant diversion.

We arrived in ...

... merkt man sofort, dass alles auf das touristische Ziel 'Anne of the Green Gables' ausgerichtet ist. Vielleicht haben ein paar von euch diese Geschichte in den Jugendjahren auch gelesen. Es steht hier ein Haus mit grünen Giebeln, das wie in der Romanhandlung eingerichtet wurde. Wir haben darauf verzichtet, es zu besuchen. Der Eintritt ist überrissen, und bieten tut es wenig. Auf jeden Fall sind die Japaner hier zahlreich vertreten. Schliesslich ist es deren 4. Lieblingsreiseziel.

Wir sind am Morgen bei starkem Regen losgefahren. Die Überholmanöver der Lastwagen und Autofahrer bei dieser schlechten Sicht waren zeitweise kriminell.
Wir hatten das Glück, dass es gegen Mittag aufgehört hat zu regnen. Vor der Confederation Bridge haben wir einen kurzen Fotostopp eingelegt. Die Brücke ist 13 km lang und verbindet New Brunswick mit Prince ...

... on the Wharf!." The food was ok, small portions, big prices. We then all loaded back into our van to travel about 45 minutes to the Sundance Cottages, our ultimate destination.

We were all quite surprised by the PEI landscape. There are a lot of dairy and horse farms. There are more rolling pastures than the trees we encountered on NS. It appears there is more money on the island than in NS. The houses were ...

Ahh blessed sleep!  After a 36 hr. torture marathon I can even sleep in this hellhole.  Predictably at 8am a crew starts loading and unloading furniture right under my window, including the inevitable guy with the hyena laugh who ****ing finds everything funny.  The pipes shriek and scream like an anal virgin. Every so often some stinky air from the hall finds it's way into the air vent and is blown right into my face.  But ...

... Well, they probably weren't totally homemade but she heated them up in the oven herself, which is good enough in my book if they're free. 14 croissants and a great deal of exotic fruit later (check ME out - vitamin C and evryfink), I jumped on the handy shuttle which drew up by the front door. Also on board was a sleeping Japanese girl and an elderly Indian lady with a fold-up bike. I'm not sure if the fold-up bike was hers, especially as she was in full traditional garb which ...

What a great day!! Started off kind of blustery, with pretty high winds -- which kind of kept us in the RV's in the morning. But, then we decided to do something -- so we had a quick lunch and headed into North Rustico to do deep sea fishing. We had been worried that it would be rough and cold -- and instead it turned into a perfect day on the ocean. We joined half a dozen others on Wade's Deep Sea Fishing ...

... of the Anne of Green Gables books. We headed up the western tip of the island towards North Cape, the northernmost tip of PEI to see the lighthouse and the giant windmills, which turned out to be the same type of windmill farms we have in California near Palm Springs!...not the Dutch kind. Oh well, the drive was breathtaking anyway. We headed south, passing many small coastal towns and villages stopping ...

... a musical based on the 2nd and 3rd books of the Anne of Green Gables series. I actually loved these books growing up, and enjoyed the musical, cheesiness and all. Turns out that the musical was co-written by a teacher at Wexford high school, which is in Scarborough not too far from where I grew up. My mom also knew the guy playing Gilbert.

Summerside is a sleepy, adorable, town. I really enjoyed the boardwalk; it's very tidy, lots of the stores ...