We started the day off with the alarm clock going off at 6:30am. I guess the last guest left it set to that time, though I’m not sure why we didn’t notice it on our first day in the hotel. Steve thought it was a conspiracy of the housekeeping staff to wake people up and get them out so they could clean the room.
So we went down to “The Breakfast Room” for our complimentary Continental breakfast which was quite good. The buffet featured scrambled eggs, a frittata, french toast, has browns, brown beans along with some juice, coffee, toast or bagel and a few other things.
After breakfast we packed up and headed down to the maritime museum and wasted a couple hours inside the cool air conditioned building. We learned more about the big explosion of 1917, plus pirate’s, and passenger ships. Then we drove to the location of the Anchor that blew off of the exploding ship and landed 2.35 kilometers away. A park was built and here the anchor fragment is displayed. Around noon (8:00am BC Time) we departed the fair city of Halifax and headed toward PEI. The highways here are quite nice and they make good use of the roundabout, so that has been fun for the driver (Andrew). We stopped for a little picnic lunch (see yesterday’s post re: the shopping trip), and got a snack at the nearby Dairy Queen.
We arrived too late for one ferry to PEI and too early for the next, so we had to wait in the line-up for 1.5 hours in the car in the hot and humidity of the afternoon. Thankfully there was a bit of a sea breeze to keep us cool. The ferry or bridge is free to get to PEI but a toll is required to get off of PEI. This must be their way to get people to immigrate to the Island!?!?
The ferry ride over to PEI was uneventful, and almost everybody speaks english here, so we are not having any trouble making our wants and needs known. After we got onto PEI we had to find our next pre-arranged Bed And Breakfast. We learned that this was supposed to be a 40 minute drive from the ferry but it took us 2 hours since we were trying out all various highways. We thought it would be impossible to get lost because there wouldn’t be that many roads, but the island is one very big complex grid of roads.
We arrived at our next bed and breakfast, The Evening Primrose. Two ladies live here (Susan and Jeannie) and Susan (on the right) has lived in this house her whole life.
Andrew & Steve