Blogs from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, North America - page 6

I didn’t feel so good this morning. Sarah drug me out of bed to go work out. I’m glad she did, though I was exhausted and didn’t do too much. After showering, it took all of my energy to not crawl back into bed. (That’s the thing about Hampton Inns… they have the BEST beds and make getting up each morning quite a chore.) We got all packed up and hit the road… the way to lunch. I needed to post something back to the States, and therefore needed a place to do so and to purchase stamps. That was interesting. In Canada, most pharmacies have post stations, or whatever, so we stopped there. The one we found didn’t, so he directed us to the UPS store. I told the man inside that I needed two ... read more

Low tide was at 11:00 a.m. this morning which gave us a 5 hour window of opportunity to walk on the ocean floor. We were going to Hopewell Cape, home of the Flowerpot Rocks. The tides in Canada's Bay of Fundy are the most extreme in the world. Because of the unique shape of the bay, the difference in water level between high tide and low tide can be as much as 48 feet. The Flowerpot Rocks are formed of sandstone and a conglomerate of sand and small rocks. If you look up close it looks like you could take these formations apart because of what appears to be loose construction but they are cemented together and no amount of digging can dislodge even the tiniest stone. I know, I tried. During high tide a lot ... read more

PEI!! We love you!!! We arrived in PEI after cycling 81 kms to get to the ferry. We had planned to find a nice place to camp on the other side of the water in PEI and call it a day until we arrived there...it was warm, breeze-less, hill-less, green; it was absolutely amazing and had Brad and I wondering how a 70 minute ferry ride could bring us from a grey fisherman's land to lush green paradise!! We were so pumped we eneded up cycling another 36 km before arriving in Orwell. Orwell is a little historic town that we expected to be much like Fort Langley. We expcected a nice small town to spend the evening in and at the least, we hoped for a gas station so we could get some supplies ... read more

Had we known it was such a long drive from Halifax airport to Charlottetown we would never have dreamed of asking our friend Mitch to drive up to meet us and chauffeur us back down. After almost an hour and a half in the car I enquired as to how much further it was to Charlettetown and Mitch replied we were almost half way there. "Yeah, right! When are we really gonna be there?" I scoffed. "No, really. We're about half way there." "Your kidding?" "No, I'm not." He wasn't. Well, we'd look on the map and there'd barely been an inch in it. It didn't LOOK that far... My, my didn't we feel silly...and mean! Poor Mitch had driven - in the end - a round trip of 6 hours to retrieve us, after a ... read more

Up early and on our bike over the bridge to Charlottetown we go. The Basilica of St. Dunstan had an 8:30 mass, which we attended. The basilica is known for twin gothic spires, and impressive altar and fine Italian murals. The atmosphere was formal and conservative, oh well. Charlottetown is where Canada began. In 1864 the colonial capital hosted a Charlottetown Conference, which led to the establishment of the Dominion of Canada. We visited Province House National Historic Site and saw a video recounting the conference of 1864. Charlottetown is the largest city on Prince Edward Island and the smallest Provincial Capital. On a lighter note, we took the Harbor Hippo, an amphibious vehicle the traveled through town and then into the Hillsboro River. It was a fun way to get a feel for this city. ... read more