Anne of Green Gables
On the 24th we motored another 200 miles down the road to the east and landed on Prince Edward Island. We crossed the Confederation Bridge which was opened in 1997 connecting this remote island to the rest of Canada. The 8 mile bridge is awesome and quite high to allow ship traffic below down the St. Lawrence Seaway. The picture below is distorted a bit but in the Flying Scotsman the 35 MPH winds were a challenge. This is an amazing structure and how it was built is another interesting story.
We picked the Cavendish KOA on the north shore of the island as it was convenient to most of the picturesque sites we wanted to visit. The site was a pull-thru but mostly grass and not very level and had 50 amp service. For about $20 US per night it was still a really good deal.
The whole area around the little town of Cavendish is devoted to the life and writings of Lucy Maud Montgomery who wrote Anne of Green Gables and many more novels.
Her birth home, above, is a little to the west of Cavendish and is a small home where the author was born in the room below in 1874.
The actual farm she wrote about in her book was this one belonging to a cousin and is now a museum and national historic site. (This is a commercial pic from the PEI website as I couldn't get a good shot of the place)
As we went from the Cavendish area we drove along the northeast coast of PEI and the coastline is rugged and beautiful.
From the north coast we headed south to the capitol of Charlottetown which is a good example of the 1700-1800 French and British style ... really cool.
Above with the olive green sign is a restaurant and olive oil enterprise called the Bistro Marche where we had lunch.
This was an extremely French experience with the menus chalked on the walls, super service and perfect food. Jo-Anne had their grilled cheese du jour with several cheeses and a salad, and I had the mushroom toast with several types of mushers on toast and gorgonzola ... wonderful.
As you leave the island on the bridge you get hit with the toll ... didn't have one on the way over ... for $60 ... but the experience was wonderful and the island is really worth going to.
