After our stay in Moncton, New Brunswick, we headed to Prince Edward Island. It’s a good thing Greg didn’t plan for more than 2 days on PEI. I think we would have been bored.
After arriving and setting up our camp, we headed to Prince Edward Island National Park to see whether we would like to go biking there the next day. Ultimately, we decided that the trail was too narrow and there weren’t enough interesting things to see. It ran right along the shoreline. There were lots of beaches, but not much else.
Then we went into Charlottetown for dinner. Our kayak tour guide from Moncton had recommended a specific restaurant called Merchantman that we wanted to try. We drove around for a while, trying to find a parking space (this should have been our first clue about things to come) before we were finally successful. Luckily, dinner was good. I had my second seafood chowder of our Canadian trip.
The next day Greg had scheduled an e-bike tour of Charlottetown. Unfortunately, it was a rainy day, so we rescheduled the tour for the following day. Instead, we snuggled up in our RV and relaxed.
The next day we headed off for our e-bike tour under sunny skies, but man, was it windy! Once again, we could not find parking. Greg finally pulled over and called the e-bike tour company to ask if they had any recommendations. They directed us to a parking lot, which turned out to be full. The other parking lot that they directed us to turned out to be under construction. At that point, we gave up and told them we were skipping the tour.
We decided to check out some of the lighthouses on Prince Edward Island next. After following the directions to our first lighthouse and discovering that it was down a private road that we were not allowed to trespass on, we gave up on that idea as well.
I suggested that we go check out Cavendish Beach since it was one place that Google recommended as a sightseeing destination for tourists. At this point, we were beginning to realize that Prince Edward Island is largely a beach destination for Canadians. Greg and I are not beach people.
It was a very windy day with a crispness to the air, but the size of the dunes protected the beach goers from most of it.
After checking out the beach, we walked in the opposite direction along the Cavendish Dunelands Trail until we reached an overlook.
I couldn’t talk Greg into checking out the Anne of Green Gables house, so we headed to Victoria by the Sea for an early seafood dinner.
A lighthouse. At last! And it was only a short walk from the restaurant.
We finished up the day with some ice cream.
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