Canadian East Coast 2018

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Canadian East Coast 2018
Eden Hall Breakfast Time
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C
Breakfast was really good, with eggs, bacon, sausage,french toast with fresh PEI blueberries and some PEI potatoes.

Now it's time to hit the road!
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Dalvay by the Sea National Historic Site
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
The house was built in 1895 by Alexander MacDonald, a wealthy business man. For more info on the history of this enormous house visit www.dalvaybythesea.com/history
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Stanhope Beach
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
The sand is so incredibly soft. It was pretty windy this morning though so we didn't stay long.
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Covehead Harbour Lighthouse
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Guess what we just saw....? Yep. A Lighthouse!

We have also seen a lot of sand dunes but they don't look like much in photos. The last photo in this grouping is of some dunes.
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Brackley Beach Lighthouse
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Yep. Again. 😀 I hope you're not getting tired of lighthouses, because I am still loving them!
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Overlooking the Gulf of St Lawrence
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
It looked pretty in person. The pictures I took are crappy. Sorry.
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Cavendish Dunelands Trail
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
I am really loving the landscape and colors of PEI.
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Red Island Baked Potato
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
This was our lunch plans. WAS. They basically serve big baked potatoes stuffed with all manner of things as options. We were talking about it all morning. When in (Cavendish) PEI, it seemed fitting to have a Cavendish Potato, right?

They apparently closed already for the season. We were bummed. Time to go look for Plan B.Read more
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Greco's Pizza
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
As we looked for plan B, we were met with closed sign after closed sign. In the end we went to this pizza shop and had Donair since neither of us were really wanting pizza today.

Donair was ok. Nothing exciting, especially since our last donair (in Halifax) was the best donair I ever had. Forgot to take a photo of this one. It was a giant mess anyway because they didn't roll it well.Read more
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Ripley's Believe it or Not Odditorium
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
We didn't go in but I took a few photos outside.

The bear is made entirely out of nails. The Transformer/Robot was made out of a bunch of used car parts.
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Green Gables National Heritage Site
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Anne of Green Gables by Lucie Maude Montgomery. If you don't already know about these books and subsequent TV show, I'd be shocked. I will assume everyone knows and leave it at this. You can Google it if you need to! I had quite a few photos and it was too hard to narrow it down to just 6, so I will split it into multiple posts. A couple posts for the house, probably one for the trail, and this post, which is of random extra photos on the property (including Lucy's typewriter) and an additional photo of the outside of house that didn't fit in the other posts.Read more
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Green Gables NHS - House 1
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Some photos from in and outside of the house.
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Green Gables NHS - House 2
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
More photos inside the house.
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Green Gables NHS - Balsam Hollow Trail
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Pictures taken on the walking trail. Last photo is the bottle of milk in the creek. It was hard to photograph.
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L.M. Montgomery National Heritage Site
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Lucy Maude Montgomery's house where she lived and wrote Anne of Green Gables. It's basically now a bookstore inside.
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L.M. Montgomery Birthplace
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Self explanatory. This was her birthplace and childhood home.
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Hostetter's Viewscape
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
A cute view at a roadside stop.
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Cabot Beach Provincial Park
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Another nice beach stop. Lots and lots of sea shells on this beach.
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Hey... HAY!
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Hey! Quit spewing hay at us! Tired of following this dude. Lol.. but we can't seem to get around him!
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North Point Lightstation
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
Drove the northernmost point of PEI... and saw exactly what one would expect... a lighthouse!
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Wind Energy Institute of Canada
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
The lighthouse wasn't the only thing we saw at the North Point of PEI. We also saw a bunch of wind turbines. There was a couple of pieces of a turbine on display on the ground too. They're just as enormous as you'd imagine.Read more
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Wind and Reef Seafood Restaurant
September 8, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
We had dinner in the North Point also. We had a nice table along the window and photo #2 is the view from the table. Matt had the shrimp and I had the steak with bacon wrapped scallops. Both our meals came with a baked potato. Guess this makes up for the lack of baked potato we had planned for lunch!
Last 2 photos were taken outside the restaurant after we ate.Read more
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St. Simon and St. Jude Parish
September 9, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
When we went to our accommodations for the night last night, our GPS took us to this church. We were a bit confused at first. We joked that our room was probably in the bell tower and we'd have to lug our stuff up an endless amount of stairs.

Anyway, turns out our Bed and Breakfast was the building behind the church. More on that later.

Also included in this set of photos is a model on the church found in the garden outside, and the Pastoral house on the property. The last photo is the view of the church from our accommodations.Read more
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Tignish Heritage Inn and Gardens
September 9, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
If you read my previous post, you'll remember me saying our accommodations were behind the church. The reason for this is that in the mid 1860s when this place was built, it was a convent for the nuns.

The building is super cool and the gardens were very nice. The garden even had tables in various spots with games like chess, snakes and ladders and battleship.

The only downside is we noticed there had been a water leak in the ceiling at some point in our room and it was looking like it got moldy. It looked like the grout in the shower was getting moldy spots too. Since we settled in already and knew we were checking out early the next morning, we didn't ask to change rooms. If we were staying longer we likely would have tried to switch rooms.

Breakfast was continental. An assortment of cereal, toast and jam, yogurt, fruit, muffins etc. The carrot raison muffin I ate was really good.

Time to hit the road... Last day on PEI today as we work our way towards New Brunswick.Read more
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Can you tell me how to get...?
September 9, 2018 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
"Sunny day
Sweeping the clouds away
On my way to where the air is sweet
Can you tell me how to get
How to get to sesame street?

Come and play everything's a-okay
Friendly neighbors yes that's where we meet
Can you tell me how to get how to get to sesame street?"

Apparently you get to Sesame Street by visiting Miminegash, PEI. Question answered. Now kids can finally stop asking.Read more
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