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Besides seeing the house and buildings, we were told that it is “a must” that you take a walk on Lovers Lane.
We then went to the shore to get a look of what the coast looks like. In general it is relatively low, with no jagged cliffs. There were posters with stories of the islands history.
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There are many old lighthouses but they are threatened by modern technology. The boats in use today all are equipped with GPS and do not rely on the lighthouse for navigation. There are other structures that look like lighthouses but serve a different purpose. We did see a pair of lighthouses that were now used as range lights. The boats use them for direction information
1836cWe then went to an inlet that had fishing boats and a fish market. There lobster boats coming and going. I took a picture of and Jackie & Ann, one of the other ladies in our caravan, by one of the boats. The lobstermen were all very friendly and seemed anxious to talk to us about their work. One interesting thing is that the lobster season varies from province to province and they are all short. Here the season is 2 ½ to 3 months. So for that time the men work the traps in all kinds of weather. After the season, the boats are pulled out of the water and the lobstermen go on our equivalent of unemployment until the next year’s season starts. If you wanted to buy a lobster trap, used ones were for sale for $10.00 each. There was a truck there to move the boats to and from the lift. That slogan pretty well describes the business plan
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Here is a picture of this harbor and a container of good eating
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Included in this tour was lunch at a restaurant. The food was good but what got the ladies excited was the decor. They had quilts on the walls and hanging from the ceiling. After lunch we drove through Charlottetown. It is where Canada was formed on July 1, 1867. At that time three British colonies were formed into four Canadian Provinces, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
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The place we are staying has a really neat trampoline. That may not be the proper term as one guy I was talking to called it a bounce pillow. Anyway, it is inflatable and is surrounded with sand that is quite soft when you walk on it. It is almost impossible for the kids to hurt themselves unless they bounce into each other. Near the campground there are a lot of amusement facilities to keep families, especially the kids entertained.
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It is well worth the time to take a ride around the countryside. The entire island has been settled, there towns, parks or farms. Potatoes are a big crop here and much of the crop is made into French fries ro “frites”. The cold spring they had here has affected the farmers. Even though we are passed mid-June, the fields are still mostly dirt, with very little green showing. A local told us that with a couple of days of sun and warm weather the fields will turn green overnight. The wild flowers growing along the road side are spectacular. The two main ones you are lupins and flox.
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The estuaries are home to shell fish farms where muscles and oysters are grown. What you see are rows of floats that hold the bags from just below the surface and above the bottom. In winter, ice that fill the estuaries can drag the floats and bags containing out to sea during te thaw. To prevent this, in winter the floats are weighted to sink them safely below the bottom of the ice. The farms depend on the tides to bring plankton and other nutrients that feed the shell fish.
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A government conspiracy??? I think I have found a space shuttle the government has been hiding since the program began. And a town name that you don’t see everyday.
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