Prince Edward Island

We made it across the entirety of the continent! We are currently on Prince Edward Island, and while it is not the most easterly point in Canada, it is as far as you can get easily and as far we are going. In order to make it from the mainland to PEI we had to cross one of the longest bridges in North America - we think it is the longest bridge across ice-covered waters in the world! It's about 13 or 14kms, so it certainly makes an impact.

Upon arriving at our first campground in PEI, we had a little incident which provided much amusement for the rest of the campsite - we bogged the campervan. Completely. In fact, so far in were our wheels that they were declared "beyond boards" (wooden boards that would have been pushed under the wheels so that they had something to catch on to and roll over). After some very muddy pushing, pulling and sweating, we finally decided to give in and call in the cavalry in the form of the CAA. Inspired parking

A very nice tow truck driver arrived after an hour or so and attached a big steel cable to the car and pulled us out. The campervan was undamaged, although covered in mud, so we were able to just pull into another site and stay the night. Luckily, they let us stay in a different area, so we didn't have to go back and face the three enormous bikers who had stood by and laughed smugly as we were hauled out of our hole.
One of the main attractions on Prince Edward Island is the Anne of Green Gables house. The author grew up on PEI and used the island as the inspiration for her stories. Mel was very excited to wander through the house and gardens as she read the stories a lot when she was a little girl.




Wait, is that Anne? The ghost of Anne? Nope, just Mel.




We were lucky enough to be invited to stay at the potato farm of Shawna and Thys - friends we were introduced to in Australia in January this year. We got the tour of the fields and the cleaning, warehousing and bagging facility. They process a massive 20 million pounds of potatos each year. We had a nice meal tried out some potatoes fresh from the ground! Thanks for some fair dinkum PEI hospitality guys!

On the farm.

We spent a few days on the island, which was a good break from driving around over long distances. We stopped at some beautiful campgrounds, and although regular readers will be sick at looking at secondhand sunsets, the one below was a cracker.We head back to the Canadian mainland for a few days and then we will go back into the States for a while.