Touring PEI

On our second day on Prince Edward Island, we all took off in the camper to visit the Green Park Shipbuilding Museum and James Yeo house, west of the town of Summerside. James Yeo was the son of John Yeo, the most successful ship builder on Prince Edward Island, if not the entire country of Canada. James carried on the ship building business and became fabulously wealthy in the 1860s. We learned quite a bit about PEI ship building. For example, PEI built 70,000 tons of ships in this time period compared to only 150,000 tons for the entire country of Great Britain. The Brits thought the provincial ships were of inferior quality, but during the War of 1812, British ships crumbled under cannon fire while the ships built on PEI, exhibited an enormous resilience because of their superior construction and the quality of their wood. The Brits changed their attitude about PEI ships and ordered hundreds, turning the PEI boat builders into millionaires. The James Yeo house sits on a hill overlooking the ship building area. It's a huge house for its time; three floors, with lots of bedrooms. This was good since the Yeo family had eight children! See the photos of some of the lovely rooms in the mansion.

For lunch,Mom and Dad pigged out on mussels in a local eatery, while I chilled out in the camper. That night Mom cooked up some fresh lobster...they said its was spactacular as usual. Our campsite at Twin Shores produced amazing sunsets (see photos)

The next day, Mom and Dad played a local golf couse near the camp site. Think of it as a cow pasture converted into an 18 hole course. Now there were no bunkers, no contoured fairways, and the greens were more like Dataw fairways...real slow and bumpy. You know it was a cake walk when Dad carded an 85!

We left yesterday for Bangor, Maine. Today we arrived in Quechee, Vermont.

Our memories of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia will stay with us forever. I'll wait until my final Blog entry to share all of our thoughts about this lovely and spectacular region of Canada.