Today the four of us pile into one truck and head towards the east end. We’ve explored the other Island areas so it’s time to head east. First stop is St. Peters with some craft shops and a large Catholic Church viewable from across the valley. The bay is filled with mussels being raised. In many of the Island bays and tidal estuaries there are either mussels or oysters being grown. Oysters are farmed in cages that float just below the water surface. Every so often the are flipped over or pulled out of the water for up to a full day. This somehow results in them growing faster. A farmed oyster can reach marketable size in three years while a wild oyster takes about six years. Mussels are farmed in vertical mesh bags hung from buoys.
Soon we find ourselves following the coast and the many tidal bays and inlets along the Island’s eastern shore. Lunch is another seafood feast. We notice some of the coastal harbor villages have deep water ports with some larger cargo type ships. As we round the southeastern corner of the Province we start our journey back to our campsite.
Dinner plans for tonight are to go to the Blue Mussel Café. It’s a very popular restaurant on the water in North Rustico near the primary tourist area of the Island. They don’t take reservations but they do have a wait list which one can sign up for online. We get on the wait list but it’s not until 8 pm. Once there we wait 20 minutes for a table. The place is hopping loaded with patrons along with many employees. Here the employee’s work hard yet are highly attentive to the customer’s needs. It’s an impressive operation. And the food? Wells proclaims it’s one of the better meals he’s ever had. We enjoyed ourselves and made it back to the campground a bit after ten.
Seeing North America 