July 5 Sunday 2009 Cavendish PEI
Overcast. Today we travel the North Cape Coastal drive also called Lady slipper drive. We try to go to Port Hill to see the shipbuilding museum and Yeo house, but we were detoured as a bridge is down. We couldn't go to the Shellfish museum either. We go back to hwy 2 then 12 at Alberton to see the murals and decide to have lunch. Next its all the way to North cape where we stop at the interpretive center. Not worth the $4 as there was a lot of reading and could of got that from books or the web. But I did enjoy the Black marsh walk along the shore. I saw where the horse moner collect Irish moss (sea weed) , they use it to make jellies, ice cream, and skin conditioning products. I met a local on the trail and he advised me to turn around as a squall was fast approaching, so I returned to the truck. If you go their do the board walk . Lady slippers grow there. We never did get rain I guess we outran it as we moved on to O'leary. Here we are greeted with a huge sculpture of a potato. Another claim to fame for PEI. In this museum ($6ea) we learn that the potato originated in the Andes South America. The potato is the fourth largest source of food after rice,wheat,and maize. We found the museum very good even gave samples of potato pancakes,potato fudge, chocolate cake and bread. Weeven got to sample lobster flavored chips. The machinery gallery was interesting too. We found their iron lung and other doctors and dentist implements informative. They also had a log barn, a little red school house, and telephone switchboard office. A very good museum. We pass many homes with stacks of lobster traps and boats on their lawns as the lobster season in over. (May to end of June). Summerside for dinner. We find The Brothers Two on the waterfront. It was highly recommended by another blogger. I had a huge plate of mussels Bill had scallops. If you go ,do the combination Dinner and Show. Mon- Sat. seating at 6:30 . Today is Sunday. Oh well Can't win them all. Www.brotherstwo.ca We return back to the RV park exhausted and full.
REMEMBER- Set backs pave the way for come backs.