Cavendish and Coastal Trails

It was a rainy morning when we set out for Cavendish, but by the time we got to Green Gables, the sun was peeking out and it was a pleasant day. Cavendish is probably the most ‘commercial’ area we’ve seen, with theme parks, amusement parks, and things like that. We had a little difficulty finding Anne’s home at first, mistaking the post office for the house! (Everything around there either has green gables or is named ‘green gables something’.) For those Anne fans out there, we did the whole walk including The Haunted Wood, Lover’s Lane, and Balsam Hollow. Rob was a good sport about the whole thing, and even had another raspberry cordial.

After the Cavendish experience we went for a drive in the north west part of PEI and found the beautiful and often photographed West Point Lighthouse – the only lighthouse that actually contains hotel rooms. We waded into the water (much warmer than along the Cape Breton coast) and were immediately surrounded by many large jellyfish.

Rob wanted to experience a second maritime lobster supper so we found a restaurant back in Summerside specializing in lobster (not that hard to find, as you can imagine) and he had his fill. I wasn’t quite so adventurous and had ‘lobster roll’ which is kind of like chicken salad, except with lobster instead of chicken. We decided this morning that we have done enough island exploring to get the ‘flavour’ of PEI and so we are cutting our stay here by one day and crossing the Confederation Bridge into New Brunswick tomorrow.