June 6
Leaving about the time the sun came up, we picked up the Sunrise Trail in Nova Scotia following the coast line back down the island until we arrived at the Confederation Bridge. This is an eight-mile long two-lane span from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. Thank God it was a foggy day so I was unable to see just how far up we were or how long that bridge really was. Fifteen minutes is the average travel time....luckily, traffic was light. We stopped at the Visitors' Centre complex to have a look around and pick up some brochures and a map. We only went a few miles further and found a campsite for the night.
June 7
We were late leaving the campground because of needing to get some laundry done. We then traveled east on Rt 1 then picked up Rt 4 after leaving Charlottetown. We had fresh lobster with baked P.E.I. potato, slaw and a drink for dinner in Montague then spent the night in the parking lot of the Atlantic Super Store.
June 8
My GPS says we are currently 1,918 miles from home.
From Montague we followed the Points East Coastal Drive around the eastern tip of the island. At Souris, we suddenly came upon a detour because the main street was completely torn up for several blocks. We were directly into the parking lot of the Home Store and had to guess where the detour was. We got lost and ended up on a dead end street. Danny lead us out the back way (still unmarked) to our route.
We continued on around the end of the island to Priest Pond where the bridge was completely gone and had another detour! This detour sent us right back to the other side of the island, down to Souris and back across the island to Hermanville, about a 40-mile detour and ended up only about five miles further down the right road.
Feeling we were finally on our way this time, we tried to make up some time but the route was terrible....missed turns, travelling down a road to discover we were on the wrong one, AGAIN!!
The highlight of the day was seeing the little fox bopping down the road in front of us. We stopped, she stopped, and I got some photos.
We finally ended up in Cavendish which is all devoted to 'all things Anne'. After checking out the location of what I wanted to see the next day, we decided to spend the night at the Visitors' Centre parking lot.
