Saturday, November 24, 2012

Day 4 and 5 - Quebec, New Brunswick, PEI, Nova Scotia, and NOT Newfoundland

The next day we drove through the Eastern edge of New Brunswick, on our way to Prince Edward Island.  This morning was the last time we were dry during the rest of our trip.  Starting about noon, it rained, and rained and rained!




We did stop at one of the many covered bridges along the way,

  

more beautiful scenery,


and, of course, different moose warning signs.  :)





Way too late, well after dark, we crossed the Confederation Bridge into the province of Prince Edward Island.  Then we spent another hour and a half wandering around on back roads in the dark thanks to our guidebook giving us the wrong address to our lodgings for the night.  Fun, fun, fun.

In our cottage, we stayed up even later discovering that we'd missed by ONE DAY the ferry we'd planned to take to Labrador/Newfoundland.  This meant, that unless we did nothing but drive the rest of our trip, we didn't have time to go that far.  It was upsetting, but we comforted ourselves by making a firm plan to fly there next summer.  One way or another, we WILL see it!

On the morning of Day Five, we woke much too early to check out of our cottage and check out our location.  Our first daylit view of PEI was the red cliffs of Cavendish Beach.





We went on to get our infamous fox pics




and then drove into Charlottetown to see Confederation Hall.


Before leaving the island, we had to see the famous PEI buffalo herd:


We left after dark, taking a ferry to Nova Scotia.

2 comments:

Jenn said...

It sucks that you didn't get to make it to Newfoundland, but then you wouldn't have gone to the places you did!
Those foxes freak me out. ;)

CousinLinda said...

We were really upset when we realized we wouldn't make it out there, but we feel much better now--we're definitely going next summer!