Prince Edward Island

We were both excited to cross the Confederation Bridge but to be honest it was quite anticlimactic.

It`s just a big bridge, with big concrete walls and ocean on either side.

We decided to check out Charlottetetown but after a couple of hours we felt we had seen all we really wanted to see so we headed out of town and headed for the north shore.

It was soon clear that the best part of biking PEI was the fact that if you wanted to go across half the island within a few hours you could.

Cavendish, home of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Prince Edward Island National Park was our home for the night.

We were quick to get mobile in the morning and as one of the big highlights for Joanna`s Canada Tour we went direct to Green Gables.

Not sure but I think it was all she had hoped it would be, for myself having never read the books or seen any of the movies the most interesting part was while touring the original location of her house we entered a book store run by her decendants where her niece gave a moving description of the family and town history.

Anyhow, after four fabulous hours we moved on to the park, we followed the parkway along what seemed like endless red clay cliffs capped by soft red sand beaches.

We found a back way into our campsite, broke down camp and started along the north shore of PEI.

That night we started looking for a place to crash around 7pm only to find that everything seemed to be booked.

B&B`s, hotels, even campgrounds, we finally decided to make haste for the large campground in the National Park.

They had 138 sites, we got the last one...no services, no fire ring, no problem we`ll take it.

The next day we woke to relentless rain but still toured the sweet beach where we did a little shell collecting and even found some local wildlife(crab.)

We continued along the north shore for a bit winding in and out of coves and following the beach line before heading for the eastern shore.

As we rode along, we had sent a text to Charlotte, our friend and former boss who used to live in PEI. Joanna stopped at a driveway to get out of the traffic while she checked her phone and I pulled in just ahead of her to see a man standing in his doorway saying something I couldn`t hear over the traffic.

As Joanna read the text we realised that it was an offer to stay with Charlottes dad for the night, and after a bit of confusion we realised what the man was saying `Hi, Im Charlottes dad, are you two from BC?`. We had coincidentally pulled over in her dad`s driveway, so we went on in for a solid night indoors.

In less than perfect weather we rolled out in the morning headed for the Wood Island Ferry to N.S.

We got off the ferry rode 8km and grabbed a campsite for the night.