July10-11, Percé , QC to Caraquet New Brunswick
We had an uneventful drive from Percé to Caraquet. The drive was mostly along the coast, no 15%
grades, sunshine, and gas stations were plentiful and easy to enter and
exit. Since we entered Quebec , road signs are now in French and
English. We also entered Atlantic
Standard Time (two hours ahead of CST).
Most travel days we travel 220 miles.
Today it was 260 miles.
Later this morning, we are going to visit a reproduction Arcadian Village Canada . We are going to enter as a group, but may
leave whenever we want. Our pictures are
never great, but with rain/clouds, they
may be worse.
The day turned hot and sunny. The Village was well done. Each house had a person in period costume, who told about the house, the family that lived there at the time, and they demonstrated a craft. We saw people spinning yarn, making hooked rugs, making rope, repairing fishing net, making hooked rugs, knitting. Usually they are fixing meals, but it was too dry. They were not allowed to light their wood burning stoves.The pictures represent only some of what we saw. Cabins were from the 1600's to 1800's. We crossed a bridge to an Arcadian town from early 1900's. Gordon did not like that so much. Some of the stories were too much like what he grew up with to really represent history.
Making a hooked rug One room school house
general store town from early 1900's loom
making broom from wooden stick
We made two sightseeing stops on our way from Caraquet, NB to Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. The first was at a birding/nature center. We walked on a boardwalk, hoping to see shore birds, but did not see any. Then we ate lunch in our RV and walked part of a wooded path. The mosquitos swarmed over us any time we stopped. Mostly we heard birds, but we did see and identify a black backed woodpecker.
Our next stop was Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick. There was a nice rest area and nature center. We learned the toll would cost $44.50, plus $7.50/additional axle. We won't have to pay it until we return and Caravans to Adventure will reimburse us. The bridge was completed in 1997. Tourism to Prince Edward Island doubled the year the bridge was completed.
The nature center focuses on a bird a week. They were focusing on Osprey that week. Two had nested and their chicks had hatched. We saw them on their nest in a picture on the TV in the visitor center. By time we got their, one of the parents was flying away from us and the other was gone. On the way to the viewing platform and back, we saw song sparrow, cedar waxwing, and yellow warbler. It has been a while since we had seen the warbler and wax wing.
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Anne's Room
We made two sightseeing stops on our way from Caraquet, NB to Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. The first was at a birding/nature center. We walked on a boardwalk, hoping to see shore birds, but did not see any. Then we ate lunch in our RV and walked part of a wooded path. The mosquitos swarmed over us any time we stopped. Mostly we heard birds, but we did see and identify a black backed woodpecker.
Our next stop was Cape Jourimain, New Brunswick. There was a nice rest area and nature center. We learned the toll would cost $44.50, plus $7.50/additional axle. We won't have to pay it until we return and Caravans to Adventure will reimburse us. The bridge was completed in 1997. Tourism to Prince Edward Island doubled the year the bridge was completed.
The nature center focuses on a bird a week. They were focusing on Osprey that week. Two had nested and their chicks had hatched. We saw them on their nest in a picture on the TV in the visitor center. By time we got their, one of the parents was flying away from us and the other was gone. On the way to the viewing platform and back, we saw song sparrow, cedar waxwing, and yellow warbler. It has been a while since we had seen the warbler and wax wing.
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bridge from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island Lighthouse bridge, Janet at Cape Jourimain
Janet in rest area in wooded trail
Irving Eco (birding center)
July13, Tour of Prince Edward Island.
What an island! It is so beautiful! All of your families would enjoy a trip here. There are lots of tourist traps (haunted house, Avonlea Park--minature worlds of fun), but there is also rolling landscape, beaches warmed by the gulf (water temperature was up to 68 degrees F.), quiet bays, all kinds of seafood (they grow mussels here and the oysters are famous, plus they catch lobster here in season), National Park, home where Anne of Green Gables was based). We had a lobster fishing demonstration, stopped in the National Park, and toured the home Anne of Green Gables was based upon. The author Lucy Maud Montgomery grew up on the island and her great aunt and uncle lived on the farm. The author and her husband left the island after they married and are buried here. We toured the house and took a couple of walks. One was down Lover's Lane and the other was called Haunted Forest (both were names the author gave these places in her book). After this, we went to Glasgow and lunch by the Claude River in a restaurant whose owner greeted us in a kilt and gave the history of the building, his company which makes specialty preserves and the restaurant. While waiting for our meal, a bald eagle flew past. Then we were back on the bus where we traveled to Sommerside, a beautiful bay, then home. The guide was good. We learned agriculture is the number one industry on the island, then tourism and finally fishing (lobsters, oysters, and mussels). The main crop is potatoes. We went a a performance of celtic dance and music in the evening.
We have now been blessed with two weeks of beautiful sunny weather. I would love to go kayaking today, basically a free day.
Anne of Green Gables (Joan asked for lots of pictures, so here they are):
Inside, First Floor
Upstairs
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