Up and out into Charlottetown this morning, exploring history on foot. Lovely and charming, of course, yawn. It is unfair, but since Jan and I have been back from London we cannot get excited by some church built in 1889 or so. A big deal to the locals (they kept rebuilding it after it was repeatedly destroyed by fire) but to us, after Westminster Abbey and the like, its hard to work up much enthusiasm. Spoiled rotten, we are.
Nice weather still, but see-your-breath cold this morning. A guy said the 'S' word, Snow, at the gas station this morning, forecast for two days away. Whaddayamean, snow, this isn't January. Sure, but this isn't BC either.
Looked seriously this morning at how we will get to Newfoundland. Got on the NFL Ferries website, and Air Canada, and looked at schedules and costs and things, and got a shock. We had planned to take the ferry from Sydney NS to Argentia, Nfld, but it stopped running for the season almost two weeks ago. Oops, missed that. The ferry to Port Aux Basques still runs, twice per day, but it is a six hour run from there to St John's after a seven hour crossing, making it two long days just to get there and back. Coupled with the early snow dump expected, and our appetite for that adventure was waning. Air Canada wanted more than we wanted to pay to get us there, with the need of a car rental to see the outports, and remembering the snow forecast, so we didn't want to do that either. In the end, discretion won out over rash exuberance, and we will focus on Nova Scotia instead and then head for the US border and south like the snowbirds that we are. Besides, we are noticing on PEI that the interpretive centers have shut down and we were the only non-maritime licence plates to be seen. They roll up the sidewalks on PEI when the tourists leave, and the same is probably true of Newfoundland.
Got off the Island by ferry from Woods Island, PEI, to Pictou, NS. No, really, I wanted to go over that damn bridge one more time. I really did, just couldn't wait for it, love being terrified. But the next stop was planned to be Sydney and the ferry drops us much closer to there than the bridge end in New Brunswick. So I couldn't, sigh, too bad.
Anyway, we abide in Truro NS tonight after our aborted Newfoundland plans. Tomorrow we look for one of Jan's important goals of this trip, a big tidal bore. No, silly, that isn't me I'm referring to, it is the 30 foot low-to-high tide variation in the water levels in the Bay of Fundy just around the corner.
