Woke up to a cool but cloudless day. Today’s plan was to visit Charlottetown and then make the obligatory pilgrimage North to Green Gables. For those across the pond Green Gables is the setting of a famous book entitled Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery. Green Gables is probably one of the largest income generators on the island.
First stop was a walk along the wharf in Charlottetown, the area can now accommodate cruise ships, and is being restored to handle all the additional tourists. The city also has the usual double decker tour buses albeit with a slightly different paint scheme.
Tour Bus
A few blocks up from the wharf are some of the older streets with buildings dating back to the 1760’s.
Old Charlottetown
Old Charlottetown
Lyn’s New Business
After getting in some walking exercise it was time to play hunt the craft store, which despite roadworks and detours we managed to find. Lyn now has even more material for even more projects!
Quilt Store
Next stop was Stanley Bridge, a cross country drive to the North Side of the island. Much of the centre part of the Island looked similar to the English countryside with its gently rolling hills.
Country View
At Stanley Bridge we found a nice seafood restaurant on the waters edge where we stopped for an excellent lunch.
Next door was an aquarium featuring a selection of the local fish population, together with a display of wildlife found in the local area. Also in the same building, but totally unrelated to the area, was the worlds largest collection of taxidermed (aka stuffed) birds, all 750 of them.
Starfish
On to the highlight(!) of the days tour, Green Gables. Having never read the book or seen the movie I needed a quick briefing on what all the fuss was about. Somehow this was a book that went viral before the term viral was used in this sense! The house was in a National Park, and the displays were well done. Luckily we are outside the holiday season as I believe the place is normally jammed, with a good number of the tourists being Japanese visitors.
Green Gables
We then followed the road along the North Shore to North Rustico Harbour which features a temporary parking lot at specific times of the day.
Car on Beach Parking Lot
Traps and Floats
We then continued following the coast line before heading south back to the apartment.