Day 56 Sun-Bridge to PEI!

Up early as usual..Blog relooked at due to being so very tired…yep 100’s of mistakes…rectified and finished….packed up and headed over to breakfast supplied in this motel…hmmmm actually I prefer my little bread crisps with tomato and ham…the offering I couldn’t quite work out what it was… turns out it was very anaemic egg patty to have with an equal anaemic sausage patty to have on a toasted English muffin….it took forever to toast the muffin….then you had to zap the other egg and sausage to go on it….and it’s taste was equally anaemic….I ate 1/2 took the other 1/2 with me but truly couldn’t eat it….yep cardboard food again….. so as soon as we could get to a Tim’s ordered an brekky wrap thing..at least it’s palatable….. I only have 1/2 so it’s ready for the next days brekky….if we have a microwave…the joys of travel is nothing is a given…everything is a surprise and if you don’t cope with change then life is tough…I don’t really cope with change well, but once I get my head around it I can cope….todays brekky typical example but you learn to cope….very difficultly some days 🥲.

Anyway off we set..to Prince Edward Island….seeing the massive magnificent structure of the 12.9k Bridge was unreal….we stopped on the main land just before the bridge walking track look out to see this unreal feat up closer….wild flowers abounding…. Even a Jack Rabbit….so cute with his funny ears…. The little birds singing away here was just so relaxing I really could have sat for hours listening to this special little creatures….made me smile….
Then off we set across this unreal bridge ….

(The Confederation Bridge is a world engineering feat. It connects Prince Edward Island to the mainland over the Northumberland Strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. At 12.9 kilometres or 8 miles long it is longest bridge in the world over ice-covered waters. It takes approximately 10 minutes to across. At the highest point, the bridge reaches 60 metres above sea level, which allows large sea vessels, including cruise ships, to navigate under the bridge between its piers. Construction on the bridge started in 1993 and was opened on May 31st 1997. Many Islanders still refer to it as ‘the link.’ However, after much deliberation the bridge was aptly named after the forming of Canadian Confederation. A fitting name considering Charlottetown is known as the Birthplace of Confederation, where the important first meetings of the Founding Fathers of Canadian Confederation took place in 1864. The bridge took four years to build at a total cost of $1 billion dollars. This revolutionary landmark challenged Islanders’ sense of themselves, their past and their future. It was given a life expectancy of over 100 years, and was the final nail in the coffin for the New Brunswick ferry. It has changed Island life forever. Due to its phenomenal length the Confederation Bridge is a multi-span concrete box girder structure. It tested the skill and ingenuity of engineers, who gave it a curvy design as a safety feature to reinforce its strength, to ensure drivers remained alert while making the crossing. The bridge was built from both ends towards the middle.)

We will have to pay to get off the island…it will cost us around $50 to get off it…ha ha too bad if you were broke…😩😁

We made it to the other side of the 12.9 k bridge…looked around the sights on this side…walked over to the ocean side and John spotted a seals head bobbing around he quickly disappeared….

Off we set stopping at a very small Tim Horton’s they couldn’t even do a cappuccino sadly for John…apparently this one dies t do cappuccino’s 🤔🤔🤔 they must all, be different on what they offer…..anyway just a back coffee so then off we set to explore the the western side of the island….

I will be honest I am not sure what I expected of Anne of Green Gables Island but this isn’t it….other than unreal wild flowers and unreal amount of church’s its actually not that amazing. We did a Lighthouse crawl only able to access a few compared to the plan..
We did end up on a dirt road… a very red dirt road and I am not sure why but came across at least 20 different lots of people walking…it really was a weird sight coming across different groups of people walking along this stretch of the area we were….not any other road we went on had walkers except this dirt one….🤔 very odd…. It’s quite a pretty island in that it’s green, lots of farm land…every house block were at least one acre and nearly every block had a motor home or massive Van either on it with nothing else or just a shed and the Van…of course more had smallish homes on them..one thing we noted before getting here and and once here were that 100’s I mean 100’s of homes have either just been cladded or are being cladded… some company must be making big bucks because I have never in my life seen so many cladded homes….ours is cladded but we are a minority at home…here we would be one of 1,000’s…
We were truly blown away by the sheer number of vans on acreage blocks here…we just couldn’t do it at home….but it does look like a massive number of blocks may have recently been sold here…. Hence so many looking like they are going to start building a home…..

We tried to find somewhere for lunch, but unlike many other places where heaps of tourist come to this island it seems very unprepared for tourists and their needs…we did find a little village with a diner called Vinny’s… the lady serving us was a bit of a character…but as usual everything was oily and heavy…. As great as she tired to make it great it…..it is what it is fast food…fattening and heavy….we ate what we could and took away over half…for Ron but we knew Ron wouldn’t want it….silly us….

On we went to our next spot to view another lighthouse…we had already seen 2 before this and once there discovered a great pub in a cove with heaps of lobster 🦞 boats….this really is an island of the Lobster…while driving around we noted heaps and heaps of same size fishing boats on dry land all in kind of storage….so we worked out it must be the in between season for lobster…the ones in the harbour were taking out heaps of tourists in their boats…. It looked so exciting to go out on the boats…. The lighthouse here was stunning…it was a bit different in that it was also a guest house as well as an active lighthouse….

On we went to the next Lighthouse at the top of the island, North Cape… sadly the lighthouse was a long walk and we didn’t have time to walk there… but the views along this coastline were very much like being in Brome with red cliffs and craggy shorelines….the red dirt here is more muddy as it actually made the water a red tinge about 200metres out from the shoreline…Brome’s red cliffs don’t discolour the water like it does here…

The other thing we realised is most of the farms here seem to grown potatoes….plus some do a mix of Sweet Potatoes 🍠 as well normal potatoes 🥔……acres and acres of them grown…plus wheat and some corn…we did noted another crop we couldn’t quite work out…. One another noted thing for the days as the sheer number of abandoned homes…and farms…..considering so many new blocks looked like they were being set up, there was as many just left to root….😢

All in all we did around 500ks and even though it wasn’t mind blowing scenery everywhere we went it did have moments of beauty and interest….

We made it late to our hotel after 5.30pm been a long day,..we planned to use the microwave in our room to heat lunch…but hmmmm no microwave…and we really are to tired to go out for dinner…I had spent a good hour researching restaurants…but just couldn’t go…we did with bits and pieces I had with us for a dinner…it wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst…at least not heavy and fatty…. Another big day tomorrow!Weiterlesen