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Selfie #7, Cows Ice Cream, Charlottetown, PEI
Route 1A to Charlottetown was typical Island landscape - dairy farms, potato fields and always the red cliffs off in the distance over the Northumberland Strait, the result of a high content of iron oxide in the earth. PEI is often called the Garden of the Gulf as well as the Birthplace of Confederation but most visitors come to hear and visit the site of Lucy Maud Montgomery fictitious tale of Anne of Green Gables. After a few hours in the capital Charlottetown we were pleasantly surprised by the low key atmosphere and friendly people we met. I had been here once before when the Queen visited in the summer of 1973, part of the Naval Honour Guard from HMCS Saguenay. Marie and I stopped by the Confederation Center of the Arts to listen to a distinctly Canadian group of young singers extolling the beauty and history of Canada, window shopped and wandered about the downtown taking pictures before getting back on the road to head west to Summerside. |
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Scenes from Charlottetown, PEI
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Summerside, at the entrance to Bedeque Bay, seemed a shadow of its former self since the closing of the Air Force base in 1991 but I was told the former military site is now home to Vector Aerospace and several other aerospace companies. We had lunch on the waterfront on the wharf, a lobster roll and local beer then stopped for the night at Linkletter Provincial Park on the Strait. The next morning we were up early, returning east to Borden-Carleton to take the bridge over to the mainland and New Brunswick. The peace and tranquility of PEI we would remember for a long time. gws
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| Ben running around at low tide, Linkletter Provincial Park, PEI |
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| Selfie #8, Linkletter Provincial Park, PEI |
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| leaving PEI, Confederation Bridge |
