A couple more days on PEI

Remember the above picture from a previous post? It looks like the population of the city of Chartlottetown could all be loaded on the ship (they wouldn't all fit though). Above the front part of the ship you can see a brown brick-and-glass hotel building. Here is that building from the land, just for some perspective:

A few days later these two cruise ships were docked together. Notice how relatively small the rearward white ship (Seaborne Quest) looks:

Now a closer look at the Seaborn Quest by itself:

Looks bigger now eh!

 

The dock in front is where the larger ship was docked

When no cruise ships docked, the docks don't look so impressive

Saturday evening we had a short sail around the Charlottetown harbour courtesy of Pat's brother Kurt. Kurt offers short sailing tours in the summer, usually 2-3 hours, with his Saga Sailing business. We usually enjoy a family sail with him when we are on PEI.

Nancy and Cathie

Kurt often lets me steer the boat, with supervision of course

It was a lovely evening for a sail

Government House, where the Lieutenant-Governor stays when in residence

Here's a closer view of Government House at Christmas

A little plug for Kurt's tour business 

On Sunday we toured the downtown market. A block or two of a main street is closed, and vendors with (mostly) PEI products set up to offer them for sale:

Lots of people, but didn't feel crowded

One of the vendors

A nice spot for a break after all that shopping

Across the way is Stratford, where Pat and Nancy live. A lot of our cruise ship pictures are taken from over there, towards the righthand end of this picture:

Later in the day we had a special dinner. It was special in several ways, but one way was in honor of my 75th birthday:

Pat and Kurt cooked the main course

Kurt preparing the lobsters to be opened

And here they are

Before you ask - no, I didn't eat them all. A wonderful way to end another great downeast day. Big thanks to Nancy, Pat and Kurt for all their work, and to Heather for her contribution.

We had decided to head out on Monday instead of the planned Tuesday, since we're going to go home via the US. Different traffic patterns led us to leaving Monday morning, ending up at New River Beach park along the New Brunswick Fundy coast.

The beach is down there somewhere

 

The beach at fairly low tide. See the dark high tide level on the rocks?

The beach was likely busier this weekend, with the holiday. Not now though.

Looks as busy as a lot of PEI beaches

The tide comes up a long ways on the sand

We were camped early, about 1:30 pm. Soon we heard music playing, and it sounded more like live music than somebody's hifi system. Sure enough, the Wild Card were playing, down near the beach. They played for over 3 hours, with a break, very enthusiastic and pretty good. Likely in our honour, since it's our 53rd anniversary today.

Tomorrow we'll be heading into the US, and will have little WiFi data, so this will be the last post until we get home.

Today's route: