August 28, 2016

Oh PEI. You will forever be in our hearts.  This has become the place to beat on our trip so far.  The gorgeous rolling hills, beautiful red cliffs, and ocean views everywhere you look.  I know we have just begun, and have so much more to see but it will be forever the one we compare things to…

      

 

So we stayed at a park called Bayside Campground in Oyster Bed, PE.  It was very nice with lots of space and a pool (that is all the kids need to be happy).  Originally we had just booked 3 nights, but because we loved it so much we ended up staying for 7.   Our first night we wanted to go out for a traditional lobster supper.  So we went to New Glasgow Lobster Suppers for dinner.  At this restaurant you choose what size lobster you want and pay for that and it comes with unlimited sides including rolls, seafood chowder or tomato basil soup, cole slaw and salad, fresh steamed buckets of mussels, drinks, dessert, coffee and tea!  So amazing. My kind of restaurant. Eric, Ada and I ordered lobster for our meals while Emma and Haydn opted for the safer choice and got grilled cheese sandwiches.  While Eric and I were tearing into the bucket of fresh steamed mussels, Emma was keeping her gaze averted so as not to vomit all over the table.  I have to admit, I didn’t look too closely as I ate the mussels either…they are a little weird looking.  Ada loved her lobster supper and ate it all.  It was all so good.  By the time we left that place we were all busting our belt buckles.

      

One of our first adventures on PEI was to a rock formation at Thunder Cove near Kensington, PE.  There is a really cool rock known as the tea pot.  The beach was beautiful and the red cliffs were even more so.  We explored all along the beach and then drove into a little town for some lunch.  We decided to make the drive all the way up to the North Point lighthouse and did some more climbing on rocks up there.

    

 

 

We spent some days just hanging out at the Campground and swimming.   We also decided that we should try clam digging and although we did not have any of the tools required to dig for clams we went anyway.  We found some sticks and used those and our bare hands to do some digging in the exposed sand on the beaches.  Needless to say; we were not successful!  On our last day to adventure in PEI we drove around to the East Point lighthouse and then on to find the “singing sands” beach.  We never did find the singing sands, but instead ended up at Basin Head beach where we found a real live starfish and another day filled with climbing on beautiful red rocks and digging for shells on the beach.