Family Vacation 2016....Part 2....Prince Edward Island

From Maine we traveled into New Brunswick and headed toward Prince Edward Island.  We took the Confederation Bridge across into PEI.   This is an 8 mile long bridge and the longest bridge that goes over ice covered waters (think "winter").  Both days that we crossed were rainy and somewhat foggy so I cheated and found this picture online.

We camped at Cavendish National Park which is a very nice campground just a few minutes walk to the beach.  Thankfully the rain had stopped by the time we arrived and we enjoyed a beautiful evening watching the sunset on the beach.

 Cavendish Beach

The next morning we went to the Anne of Green Gables Heritage Place.  This was NOT the place where the movie was filmed so the expectation of this was disappointing.  This WAS the area that the author, Lucy Maud Montgomery, was raised and this was the setting that inspired her writing of the books.  This place originally belonged to one of her relatives.  

Of course, we had to try some!

We spent the afternoon enjoying the beach.  It was a perfect day!  It was cool enough that this gang who is used to HOT felt like it was too cold to swim.  The water temp felt about the same as the ocean temp is here in June.  This water is the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Playing spike ball

Devan found this rock full of holes and there were baby shrimp hiding in the holes....at least that's what they looked like to us.

Further up the road, there were cliffs along the shore.  We found it amazing that in some places they farm pretty close to those cliffs....in other words, not a lot of marsh or dune areas.

PEI is known for growing potatoes.  We had to take at least one picture of a field with the red dirt. PEI is very rural with lots of farming...mostly potatoes and wheat (or barley maybe?)  With the farming and the water (aka fishing) Lyn said he knows where he would move depending on how the elections turn out....

It was kinda a shock for us Delawarians to realize that their tourist season is not at all like our beach tourist season.  Very peaceful!

Almost forgot......It was at this campground in Cavendish that we were awakened in the middle of the night by this noise outside our camper.  SOMEBODY had left the trash out.....and SOMETHING was in it.  The father of the bunch arose to see what was going on.  He opened the camper door and saw a masked face and as he was trying to shoo it away, another one of the culprits came from the other way and jumped up on our camper step (while Lyn was standing there with the door open!).  After Lyn's reaction, EVERYONE in the camper was awake.   Lyn stepped out of the camper on top of the picnic table with the raccoons still under it feasting on trash.  Taking a hot dog stick he reach under and smacked it; at which time Renae loudly proclaims "Oh he hit it..."  The raccoon snarled and snapped and finally took off for the woods.  By now, the neighbors lights were a testament that they were awake as well. It was the next morning we discovered that they had also gotten into the cup with the 2 sea urchin shells and crushed them.  We had them outside because they were starting to smell a bit rank.  Too bad; they would have made a better souvenir than a raccoon on a hot dog stick!