July 24th Prince Edward Island

Arrived here on 21st.  Prince Edward Island is a large island about 100 miles long.  Beautiful rolling farm land - bright gold flowers we were told were canola flowers.  Potatoes and corn and barley are  big crops here also. Had some excitement when we were setting up the trailer.  The handle came off the water spicket when dad  was attaching the handle and a very strong  plume of water was shooting out.  He was afraid it would hurt the trailer and tried to direct it away while Becky  ran to the office to tell them  All they knew was to call a plumber who turned out to be on vacation.  The maintenance person did not know what to do, so Becky asked for another site.  Becky  ran back and tried to cover the water with her hand while dad moved the trailer.  We left water spouting in the air.  First thing we did after we got set up was go  to a lobster supper at St Ann's church.  They have been putting them on there for 40 years.  It is a big business-long lines waiting to get in.   They had a Irish country and western player who was fun to listen to.  It was great!  Thought we would sit at a long table with others so we could talk to some Canadians, but we were placed at a table for 2.

We are camping in a national park which is very nice.  Canadian parks have showers and laundry mats.

 Some people are camped on the hill right over the beach. The beach has sand, but it is red with out croppings of red rock that is so soft you can rub a line in it.  The water temperature is 64 degrees.  I could not bring myself to swim in the water, but dad did.  It is the Florida of Canada. There are Band Bs every where.  We took a long beach walk.  Drove to a near by town and walked a board walk around their bay and ate some of the oysters from that bay- Malpeque.  There is a famous book called Ann of Green Gables which was about a girl who lived on this Island.  We went to the house that the author lived in and talked about in her book.  Walked a trail around the dunes and some the places the girl in the book talked about.  Today we drove to another beach to a beautiful inn on the beach and rented bicycles and biked up and down the trail which followed the dune lines.  It was fun.  This area is covered in wild roses.  It is one of the reasons it is so lovely. Today the ocean is very rough.  Yesterday it was smooth.