Goodbye PEI

We spent a day in Charlottetown where we visited "Founders Hall" and heard the story of how Canada became a country. It was kind of funny because despite my best efforts to avoid learning American history I knew a lot more about the creation of the US than Canada. Canada's story doesn't have a civil unrest, rebellion, and ultimate war. No, Canada's story is much more unassuming and involves more meetings, dinner parties, and handshakes. I think the history of Canada's founding is so much more Canadian.

We went to the Cow's ice cream factory. Supposedly they make the best ice cream in Canada.

Riding in the backseat with Bridget

Another red sand beach. This was after the hurricane that hit the East coast. We only experienced a short period of rain and some pretty strong winds but those winds brought a lot of seaweed onto the beach. You can also see the Confederation bridge in the background which connects PEI to New Brunswick.

Bridget loved walking in the shallow water and playing on the new sand bars that would suddenly appear as the tide went out. I would go and find some hermit crabs and put them down near her and she would "play" with them, meaning every time they would come out of their shells and start to crawl away she would try to pick them up and they would go back inside.

Bridget in a lobster trap

Another early morning walk with Bridget and the camera

On our final day in PEI we drove up to the north west point of the island and then back down the western coast. We walked around the northern point for a while, watching the eastern and western tides meeting and checking out the red cliffs.

"You belong among the wildflowers"

A little bit of the prairies by the ocean. This made us a little nostalgic for good old Alberta.