Day 10 - Good bye Nova Scotial Hello PEI

We left New Glascow, NS this morning and headed east towards NB/PEI. We travelled along the Northumberland Shore trail to Pictou (pronounced Pic-toe) and toured the historic town and saw the ship Hector (a replica). Unfortunately, the Hector Museum was closed "until further notice". We are not sure why. A very pretty town and very scottish. There were clan badges as banners all along the waterfront.

Our next stop was a lavendar farm east of Tatamagouche. It was heavenly. They explained the processing used to make the various products. Did you know that you can cook and bake with lavendar? I learned something new today, I even tried lavendar jelly; very interesting.

Continuing on we drove through Malagash, Wallace and Pugwash. Pugwash also has very strong Scottish  heritage, even the street signs are in english and gaelic.

Contuing on through small towns we took a short cut to New Brunswick and then headed to PEI via the Confederation Bridge. Cool bridge! Of course I missed the picture!

PEI is very different terrain from NS. Potatoes and farms everywhere! We did not get to the coast in time to check out the red beaches before dark but we have arrived in Cavendish where we plan to spend two nights. Guess what? It is now "off-season" (as of today) and we found a lovely little motel for $54/night. Best deal of our trip.

We can't wait to visit the beach tomorrow. Stay tuned for more tales.

From the road, S & S