Maritimes - Day 26

I still like PEI.  It's so much like home, but with a coastline and roundabouts.

We left Nova Scotia behind and headed across the bridge to PEI, arriving around lunch time in cool and cloudy weather with light drizzle at times.  At the entrance area, we had lunch and then did a family Anne picture.  We couldn't get Alex to do it at all, but the other three were willing, for a price.  It was goofy and fun.  Then we drove down to the end of town to see the bridge from the coast before driving into PEI for groceries.

Our route immediately took us into rural PEI, and it was so nice.  Farms and farmland, growing wheat and corn.  A nice easy road to drive, with hardly any traffic.  After buying supplies, we headed to our motel, which unfortunately is in the heavily tourist attraction area of Cavendish.  The road became packed with cars, we passed a packed amusement park, but the motel is very nice and quiet.  We have a room with a back deck and a BBQ, so we ran across the street for buns and hamburgers and made those for supper.

Crossing the road was quite the experience, as there are no crosswalks for blocks on either side, and the road was the packed one we arrived on.  Luckily, on the way back, a dump truck driver slowed down and held up traffic on one side so we could cross.

After supper, we took Bradley to play in the ocean, which he had been looking forward to all day.  It was cool, but he didn't care.  Cavendish beach is a nice big beach, with beautiful sand and lots of waves to play in.  We splashed in the waves for a bit, but noticed that it didn't appear to be too deep, as a couple had walked out quite a distance and were still only about knee deep in water.  When they walked back in, they told us that there was a sandbar out there you could easily reach, so I took Bradley and Jonathan.  You had to walk through about a waist deep area (filled with rocks, which was tough on the feet), but you quickly reached the sandbar and could easily walk around as the waves crashed around you.  The kids loved that and we stood out there for quite some time before the rising waves chased us back in.  They then threw rocks (very nice red sandstone) into the ocean for some more time before we headed back to the motel.

Tomorrow we will continue our travels around PEI, though Alex has gotten sick again, so hopefully he feels up to doing stuff in the morning.