Tuesday, August 8, 2023
We both slept well after not arriving to our overnight sight until almost 10:00 last night. We (almost) NEVER arrive that late. We (almost) NEVER even arrive after dark. But last night was special. Today we are still glad we did it. Don’t recommend arriving after dark, but sometimes it happens.
This morning it was time to head south, off of Cape Breton Island. We had planned today as a repositioning and preparation day but things changed a bit as we drove along. There was a lot of construction delays as we drove from Cape Breton, to the Canso Causeway. We crossed over the big green bridge back into Nova Scotia, and continued on to Caribou, NS which is where we had planned to ready ourselves for tomorrow’s ferry trip to PEI. We went to a small Provencial Park, emptied our tanks and took on fresh water but then we Gumby-ied everything. We decided to visit the ferry terminal to make sure we knew exactly what would happen tomorrow. We had spoken with people with the ferry call center/reservations twice and were given totally different answers to our questions with different costs for the crossing. Turns out all we had to do was pull up to the ferry booth and talk to a kind gentleman who said we could go on the next ferry that would depart in about 50 minutes and the cost would be $0.00. That sounded like a much better plan than the $134.00 the man on the phone told us. We were driving aboard the ferry about 15 minutes after we pulled up to the booth to ask our questions. It takes about 75 minutes to make the crossing. It was a beautiful afternoon to be crossing to PEI. (Tomorrow is predicted to be windy, and rainy all day.) The PEI/NS ferry is free going to PEI but you have to pay to return to Nova Scotia. (not $134 but about $100.00) We aren’t planning to return to NS on this trip. We plan to drive from PEI, over the Confederation bridge to New Brunswick. It is a toll bridge so we will pay the $50.65 toll for BB to cross the bridge. All is well and tonight for our first night on PEI we are parked right beside the Atlantic Ocean watch the waves hit the shore and a cruise ship go by. There are supposed to be some seals here as well but we haven’t seen them yet. It was a very good day!
RVing With a Purpose 