PEI....Here I Come

I left Waterville, New Brunswick in the morning for my ultimate destination.  I was looking forward to going over the Confederation Bridge to PEI.  At 12.9 km long, it is the worlds longest bridge over water that could be covered with ice.  The last time I visited the island it involved a ferry because the bridge had not been built yet, or to be really honest it was so long ago I'm not sure if it was even in the proposal stage.  

I hope to be able to load some videos from my dashboard camera here in the future.

The first 6 nights of my stay on the island were at the Cavendish KOA.  It is quite a large park with a lot of amenities mostly geared for families with kids.  I met some locals who have seasonal sites close to where my site was.  Although I probably could have backed my trailer up onto my site with someone guiding me, I let one of them do it for me.  Most of the sites in this park are on quite a slope so we had to put blocks under the wheels on one side and hike the front up quite a bit as well.  I was able to teach these fellows that if a full board under both tires on one side raises it too much you can raise it half way by putting the second board under only one tire.  I learned that trick back at the campground in Huntsville. 

Once I was set up in the campground, I went out for a bit of a drive with getting some groceries in mind.  I did pick up a few things, but then I couldn't resist having an early dinner at the Fisherman's Wharf Lobster Suppers.  I was really hungry and did justice to the 60 foot salad bar, including clam chowder and steamed mussels.  I selected the 1 lb. lobster for my entree.  Non-alcoholic drinks and deserts are also included for the admission price. 

This was my first plate of mussels.

I was too anxious to get into my lobster to take a picture of it.  It was delicious.  No morsel was left uneaten.

During my stay I availed myself of the swimming pool, hay ride and petting farm.  I didn't go on the jumping pillow or swings.  It was surprisingly quiet at night for the size of the park.  The hay ride (sans hay), so really a wagon ride, with the wagon pulled by a tractor goes all around the camp ground and then into the woods, where they have various stuffed animals set in the trees and on the ground.  The kids get a big kick out of it.  The tractor has a bubble blowing machine on the top of it spewing bubbles the whole way around.  I'm dating myself now, but it reminded me of the Lawrence Welk show.  At the petting farm they had one calf, one goat, one sheep and 4 kittens.  The first time I was in the barn there were was a girl of about 10 trying to convince here mother, who she was speaking to on her cellular phone, that she should be able to bring one of the kittens home.  Mom wasn't having any of it, much to the chagrin of the girl.