🎶 Blueberry Fields Forever🎶
We started our day with an early walk along the Charlottetown boardwalk. A cool, but very beautiful morning.
Charlottetown has a very nice vibe. In fact, all PEI has a nice vibe with just over 182,000 inhabitants. This compares to about 900,000 on our Vancouver Island though the latter is about 6 times larger. PEI is very agricultural based as well, for what it’s worth.😅 An interesting mix of small urban and rural.
Charlottetown has some beautiful old homes. This one is about 150 years old and has lots of interesting history.
We also found the scarecrows everywhere added a nice look to the city. They were a part of the Scarecrow Festival with many homes and businesses participating.
The well maintained heritage homes in central Charlottetown contributed to making our walks just that much more enjoyable. Both of our cities have done a pretty good job of preserving our historical buildings.
We stayed in this one;
I can’t imagine maintaining one of these beautiful houses. Generally speaking, we really liked the look of the houses on PEI. Many of the newer homes in our part of the country lack much curb side appeal. At least I find some of them lacking. The high gable houses here rarely fail to please the eye.
We returned to our B&B to pack up our few things and then headed for the Murray River area of the island which is located in the SE corner. I stopped often to enjoy the magical colours.
The B&B we are staying in tonight is well located for the early morning ferry that we need to catch tomorrow. It’s run by a couple who are selling because his cancer has sadly returned. He will be having stem cell treatments in Halifax for the coming month and then they will return to live close by the area where we hiked yesterday. I hope things go well for them.
After dropping our gear early so that our hosts could go off to celebrate Thanksgiving with family, we went in search of more colour. This area of SE PEI seemed to be exhibiting the best colour on the whole island.
I had tried to describe to Ernie and Judi the dramatically coloured fields that we’d seen on our first day when transiting NS. They thought that perhaps we had seen some blueberry fields. I felt that the plants were much shorter and more like a grass or weed. Today I found them where Ernie told me to look, and they were indeed blueberry plants! We are use to much larger plants on the west coast, but he was right. Sure glad I didn’t argue the point.😬
The effect of these small plants massed in a field at this time of year is almost beyond words. My camera feasted…
We stopped several times, and as I walked out into the fields it was oddly like being swallowed by a colour.🙂
Finally pulling myself away, we continued down to the coast to visit the oldest light on the Island which is situated at the end of Point Prim, and bears its name.
Time now to drive north 15-20 kms to find dinner. I’ll finish this up afterwards while hopefully watching part of game 1 between the Jays and Mariners. I’m such a baseball fan!🤣
That’s about it from the east coast. More sun tomorrow and our community Thanksgiving feast on Cape Breton lined up for tomorrow. We have to be there by 1:00 pm. It will be close!
Hope everyone has a very good Thanksgiving celebration with family and friends! 🦃🍗🍷
Geoff
Distance Walker - Wandering & Wondering! 