Day 17 - From Fundy National Park to Hopewell Rocks.
Today we only travelled for an hour to our next stop the Hopewell Rocks, a New Brunswick Provincial park. We just went in to 'check' it out briefly. Well it took us over 5 hours to do that. The photos will tell you all about the Hopewell Rocks.
While Leo was taking pictures I enjoyed sitting on a bench watching the people. I wound up talking to a Dutch tourist from Enschede who had just arrived from Holland and was starting his 3 week holiday here in New Brunswick. I also talked to a senior lady who told me her situation and a senior man who sounded like he was a walking time bomb the way he described his health.
We went back to our trailer, had supper and then up to the campground office to post our Day 15 & 16 blog. Yes we are running behind a bit.
Photos for this day can be viewed here.
Day 18 - From Hopewell, New Brunswick to Cavendish, PEI
The next leg of our trip was the new province (for us) of Prince Edward Island reached via the most impressively long Confederation bridge. We left at 9 in the morning and arrived at our new camp site at 3:30 in Cavendish, the land of Anne of Green Gables. This was only about a 200 km trip but it still took us 6.5 hours to do because of lots of photo-taking and lots of speed limits through the small towns. It certainly was not due to the speed of Leo's driving, as that is never a factor.
Confederation bridge is certainly a BRIDGE at 12.9 kilometers in length. But again the photos will tell you more. As soon as we got over the bridge into PEI we were hit with tourism. The travel information centre was a very small tourist shopping mall (only small tourists were allowed) and outside there were more tourist stores and then some more. This place seems all aimed at the tourist coming on to the island.
I must say I love PEI. Of all the provinces we drove through so far I think this is the most pleasant one. The countryside, the houses, the roads, every thing is very 'quaint'. Yes I could live here. Just the tourism would get to me after a while.
Our place of stay, the Marco Polo campground. is a very large campground with 521 sites, but very well organized and spacious. They have 2 heated outdoor pools and each area has its own playground for kids. After setting up the trailer and having our lunch ( at 4 in the afternoon) we took off to explore the island. We went along the north coast line which took us to Prince Edward National Park. We stopped at a small beach were you could see the fantastic red colour in the rocks and sand. Again the photos will show these colours much better than me telling. it.
On to the next part of the park: the sand dunes. Here we felt we were back in Holland, going to the beach in Castricum. We parked our car and as we were walking to the seaside the wooden planked pathway was covered with sand, just like it is in Holland. The dunes look just the same, only with sand that was amber in color. There were lots of people but not nearly as many as you would find on a Dutch beach on a beautiful day like today. We got back to our trailer at 9:30 so another full day for us.
Again you can view our photos for this day here.
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