Halfway around PEI

While I’m connected, let’s finish with the east coast of New Brunswick and start around Prince Edward Island

Probably a bait car

Horse Power

For those of you who were worried about my cooking, We had a remedial Tea in Victoria by the Sea

While parking in Montague, EsDora leaned right, the power pole leaned left and the awning got a big smudge. We nearly made off with a complimentary hanging basket.

Early one morning at Red Point.

Original Radio Equipment from the Originator of Radio. Stored at the East Cape Lighthouse. Alledged to have received the first SOS ever transmitted from some ship called the Titanic.... but then so were the radios we saw in other lighthouses.

Elmira, near the eastern most point in PEI has a rail museum. Like all Heritage Rail groups, they operate a Speeder to amuse the public. I provided greetings from the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society (and was given an icecream cone). Fair trade on a hot day. 

At the Greenwich portion of PEI National Park along the North Shore, even the picnic shelters are solar powered.

Carolyn came up with a mermaid’s purse otherwise known as a shark’s egg sac while combing Brackley Beach.

Up close and personal with Jacques Cartier who started his own Canada by Degrees in 1534 right where EsDora was parked in Jack Carter Provincial Park. Jacques was wearing a doublet and I was wearing a singlet.

There is a lot of fuss in PEI about a certain Anne of Green Gables. I saw the house. There are no gables. However, the touristy trade Raspberry Cordial is WONDERFUL. And it can be mixed with rum...

Cordially,

Terry & Carolyn

No Way to Catch Up

No way to catch up. So a few images along the way.

Invisible woman at the beach

Carolyn at the top of the Miscou Lighthouse.

We have made a study of lighthouses and climbed most of them. I'm hanging on like grim death to the catwalk wildly waving the camera while Carolyn does a little lighthouse keeping...

Buoys will be buoys

Lobster fisherfolk mark their pots with floats. In the days before the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the object was to make a float so unique that no one else could possibly come up with the same design. Now-a-days, the DFO gives you a number.

A three-legged guy was drying his jeans....

We BCers don’t reckon with the Acadian presence in Gaspe, New Brunswick, PEI and Nova Scotia. The beastly British exported 10,000 Acadians from the Maritimes, managing to kill about half in the process. As Gerald Boucher told us with a big grin: “We were sent away, but WE’RE BAAACK!” There are now about 100,000 Acadians. Their symbols are everywhere. Be prepared to include the Red, White & Blue with the yellow star solidly in Canadian identity.

There are so many Acadians because this is how they to birth control.

This couple from Germany have been doing what we are since 2009. They landed in Buenos Aires, turned left (Aleman Left; get it...), reached Tierra del Fuego, turned right, arrived in Alaska in 2010 and have subsequently been circumnavigating North America. Show offs!

And Shediak has the BIGGEST lobster...

Among the Acadians

2011 07 06 To Maisonnette NB N47 49.800' W064 58.792'


2011 07 07 To Lameque NB N41 48.739 W064 41.637'


2011 07 09 To Kouchibouguac NB N46 49.584' W064 56.478'


2011 07 10 To Cocagne NB N46 19.972' W064 37.001'


2011 07 11 To Murray Beach NB N46 10.801' W063 58.852'

2011 07 13 To Cornwall PE N46 12.835' W063 11.319'

Catching Up

2011 07 01 To Bonaventure QC N48 02.206' W065 29.015'

Every coastal town in Gaspe is uniquely picturesque.

Beach combing yields some gold.

2011 07 03 To Miguasha QC N48 04.206' W066 16.830'

Miguasha is a World Heritage Site with impressions of Devonian fish in the shale.

 2011 07 04 To Dahousie NB N48 03.572' W066 21.160'

Right off our campsite are these bird infested rocks. The noise and aroma remind me of some Council meetings...

And around the bend:

A rock by the lowest bidder

Special road rations ( pass the Pepto-Abysmal; Dad's cooking tonight )

Bonaventure's Municipal RV Parc was worth a two day stay.

 A little light house keeping.

We loved the tour of Gaspe. I resolve (not for the first or last time) to become bilingual because, since the Quebecois voted to rejoin Confederation or at least the left half of it, sharing our landscape and thoughts could seal the deal.


Next Stop: New Brunswick

And Down To Gaspe

2011 06 29 More Parc Forillon
In this remarkable formation:

On ripply sand from a beach 340 million years old,

there is a leaf staring right at me.

The starfish in BC are (usually) 5 legged. In Forillon, not so:

Mizz Beachcomber 2011

This fishing village in the Park dates from 1728 and now watches whales rather than the other .

The eastern end of Gaspe is the edge of the world.

At least it seems that way. A fogbank obscures the big waterfall along the horizon...

2011 06 30 to Perce N48 31.765`W064 13.027

From my workstation the Feng Shui looks bad:

The day is foggy & rainy. The road is narrow, twisty, rough, has a too high speed limit and pushy tailgaters. We are lost and careening down Hwy 132...

Suddenly, out of the mist:

Yes folks, it's the Sack of Wine RV park. They actually looked surprised that we stopped there and got very flustered when I wanted to register.

But the next morning, to our wonderment, right out our window:

The business end of the most photographed craigy natural object in the Dominion (after Don Cherry):

And the sweetest little touristy town, sort of like White Rock with:

Stay tuned