The North Point
Trip Start
Jun 19, 2006
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Trip End
Aug 07, 2006
Cavendish,
Prince Edward Island,
Canada
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Today was a free day to explore the island. Joe and Linda were our most gracious driving hosts. Joe is a gem. He has no problem haveing 4 women trying to tell him where to go. Our first stop was a shipbuilding museum. Well the ship building part was pretty much a bust but the Yoe family home was worth the price of admission. Mr. Yoe was the shipyard owner and employed up to 200 people. The had 8 kids to house maids and a man servant.
PEI is shaped like a smile. We continued up the west side to the North Point Light House. At this point we are on the North Atlantic Ocean. The water was not warm but not real cold either. The farmers here gather seaweed to put on their soil. It is also used as a food source. One older gentleman was using a larage rake like tool to reach out into the water to drag the seaweed in
6.2 The Yoe family home
. He didn't take it off of the beach. Another pickup truck pulling a horse trailer came down onto the beach. He unloaded a saddled horse, hooked up a very large rake basket behind the horse and rode out into the water. He was still riding out when we left. There is a reef off of the North end of PEI that is second is size to the Great Barrier Reef.We got back to camp just in time to take off for our Adventure Caravan provided lobster dinner at the Fisherman's Warf. The resteraunt had a 60 foot salad bar, desert cooler with every kind of pie you could think of and all of the muscles you could eat. Most of us saved ouselves for the lobster then went for the rest of the goodies.
Tomorrow is another free day followed by a bus tour of Charlotton and a musical play of Anne of Green Gables. Dinner will be on our own.
