Some rain overnight - to keep everything moist. Oh! the mozies will be happy. An early walk on the beach was almost insect free. The tides here go in and out about 15 feet with, maybe, a 2 ft height change. So different to the thousands of lateral feet on the bay of Fundy. I am so happy we were at Five Islands for so many days so that we could repeatedly experience the huge tidal changes.
Today was reserved for everything L.M.Montgomery. Mom explored her birthplace. We strolled through the very commercialized Avonlea village mock-up. We went to her grandparents farm where they have excavated the foundations of the farmhouse she lived in until she was almost 40, and walked from there to the rebuilt Green Gabled house so much a part of her books. We also visited the Cavendish post office where they traced the route of her manuscript to the Boston publisher, and the return of her acceptance letter.
We returned to the camper via a quaint home craft store selling many homemade crafts. It seems that the residents of PEI are very artistic and creative. They make beautiful jewelry, do iron work, knit, sew, potter, paint, photograph. Based on the horror stories we have heard about their winters they need to have some hobby in order to keep them sane during the long harsh winters.
The scenery is gorgeous. It seems as though most of PEI is covered by farmland. Major crops are potatoes, alfalfa and berries. On our way in to Cavendish we passed a picturesque bay surrounded by fields, with a small harbor - French Harbor. The bay was filled with buoys - all neatly bobbing around in straight lines.
Mussel and oyster farming is a huge industry here. Supplying both Canada and the US. We stopped to admire the view and discovered a farm behind us that was covered in acres and acres of Lupin.
They sell Lupin seeds in all the stores - maybe this guy was a seed supplier. After driving further we concluded that there are too many bays to count - the coast really is gorgeous. There seems to be a lots of wealth on the island. Houses are in good condition, farms are active and producing. This is in contrast with the north shore of the bay of Fundy where things look rather run down and desperate.
We returned to the camper via a quaint home craft store selling many homemade crafts. It seems that the residents of PEI are very artistic and creative. They make beautiful jewelry, do iron work, knit, sew, potter, paint, photograph. Based on the horror stories we have heard about their winters they need to have some hobby in order to keep them sane during the long harsh winters.
The scenery is gorgeous. It seems as though most of PEI is covered by farmland. Major crops are potatoes, alfalfa and berries. On our way in to Cavendish we passed a picturesque bay surrounded by fields, with a small harbor - French Harbor. The bay was filled with buoys - all neatly bobbing around in straight lines.
Mussel and oyster farming is a huge industry here. Supplying both Canada and the US. We stopped to admire the view and discovered a farm behind us that was covered in acres and acres of Lupin.
They sell Lupin seeds in all the stores - maybe this guy was a seed supplier. After driving further we concluded that there are too many bays to count - the coast really is gorgeous. There seems to be a lots of wealth on the island. Houses are in good condition, farms are active and producing. This is in contrast with the north shore of the bay of Fundy where things look rather run down and desperate.
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