We had a really amazing time on CBI, and saw some terrific scenery --soaring cliffs, gorgeous green mountains and, along the coast, quaint clusters of gray-shingled homes, red barns, white steepled churches and piles of lobster traps in the yards. This is the Nova Scotia of our imagination!
We drove to New Glasgow, on Nova Scotia's mainland, and took a 75-minute ferry ride to Prince Edward Island aboard "Confederation."
Along the way, we played Yahtzee and ate more yummy Cows ice cream; there's an ice cream shop on board!
From a distance we could see the red sand beaches for which PEI's south shore is famous. As we drove off the boat, we could see right away that this island has a much softer, more rural landscape than the one we left behind in Nova Scotia, with its gently rolling hills, narrow country roads, wide ditches brimming with Queen Anne's lace and goldenrod, grazing dairy cows and fields laid out like a patchwork quilt -- all green and gold, and edged in thick spruce forest. Keith says it's like Wisconsin, but with more pine trees. But I think it's different. The views in Wisconsin are so broad; here it's somehow more intimate and accessible.
It took us about 90 minutes to get to the north side of the island. For the next three nights we are staying at the Stanhope campground of Prince Edward Island National Park, which encompasses at least three separate slivers of beach, dunes and saltwater marshes along the north shore -- we saw a fox on our way through the park tonight. Although we don't have a water view, our site is a stone's throw from the beach, through some trees and over the dunes. We can hear the surf if we listen closely.
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