Prince Edward Island (part 2)

July 8-9, 2016

No caravan events were scheduled for the morning of 7/8 so we explored more of PEI National Park (it’s in three distinct locations).  We started an interesting-looking walk but shortly thereafter abandoned it to the mosquitoes.  We’d left the repellent in the coach.

We drove to the community of Grand Tracadie, an aquaculture center.

We met up with the Caravan in the afternoon for a ceilidh (pronounced kayley) in Avonlea Church.  Performers Mike Pendergrast and Leon Gallant were wonderful, singing and playing traditional and contemporary songs.  We joked the rest of the trip about the song “Ten Minutes That Way”, the joke being that everywhere one might want to go is “ten minutes that way”.  Mike told us that PEI really stood for “pothole every inch”.  The roads throughout the less populated sections of Canada were rough, substantiating the proposition that there are two seasons in Canada:  Winter and Construction.

  Mike Pendergrast and Leon Gallant

We explored another part of PEI National Park that afternoon, walking around Macneill’s Pond.

Readers of Anne of Green Gables would recognize this as the Lake of Shining Waters.

Dinner was a lobster feast at a restaurant fully capable of handling the entire caravan: World Famous Fisherman’s Wharf.  The salad bar (said to be the longest on the island) included steamed mussels as well as more typical salad bar fare.  Then we each got a lobster–hot, with the shell cracked, and accompanied by proper tools!