The birds put on a spectacular display yesterday. We decide to travel across the bridge to Prince Edward Island. We figure we can explore the Island from one campsite so we head a bit west to a provincial park on the water. PEI promotes tourism and it is a huge economic driver for the province. The most heavily tourist area is along the north shore of the middle of the Island. This is where Green Gables is along with sections of PEI National Park. The beaches have some of the warmest waters along the Atlantic Coast north of Cape Cod. This is where it is most busy. The remainder of the Island has plenty of tourism but it is not overwhelming for us.
With the afternoon ahead of us we decide to explore the western part of the Island. This is includes several small Acadian villages that to this day continue with the Acadian culture. A major component of the culture is music. This is the area that Barachois the Acadian musical band hails from. We loved seeing Barachois over the years at the Old Songs Festival near Albany, NY. The band was formed in the eighties and continued until the end of the nineties. Marsha is looking at an events calendar and sees that two of the four band members of Barachois are preforming this afternoon. We check them out and Louise Arsenault and Helen Beregon continue to amaze us!
After the show we stumble across a lobster processing plant. Lobsters are in season here unlike in Nova Scotia so we purchase a pound of cooked and picked lobster claws!
Seeing North America 