Hopewell Rocks to PEI

Saturday, June 4^th.

We were up at 7:30, had breakfast and drove back to Hopewell Rocks to see the difference at low tide. We got there at 9, right when the park opened and took the tram to the end. Yesterday it was all flooded and today it was all stones and mud. We went down the stairs and spent a couple of hours walking on the ocean floor and around the various flowerpot rocks. At one spot we could hear a female peregrine falcon and her chick calling to each other. The mother was in a tree and the chick was on a rock ledge. Sadly, I didn’t get good pictures of either. When we left, we drove back to Moncton and on to the Confederation Bridge leading to PEI. We drove to the harbour of Charlottetown and had a short walk around the area. I booked a really nice b’n’b for tomorrow night. Then we drove some of the streets before deciding to head to the northeast shore to Greenwich Provincial Park. We found a tourist info place at St Peter’s Bay and got information about the park and where to eat and stay in the area. We booked a room at Rod Brudenell River Resort. It was 5 o’clock already, so we went to the provincial park. We took a beautiful 5km walk along a trail by the bay, through the woods, over a long floating boardwalk across a pond and up over a large sand dune to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. We walked through four or five distinct habitats but surprisingly there were no birds other than redwing blackbirds and sparrows. When we got back to the car we drove to the resort we booked. It was a lovely golf facility. We put our stuff in our room and went to the clubhouse next door to have dinner, but it was very busy and incredibly loud so even though we were both very tired we decided to check out one of the restaurants we were told about. Unfortunately, it was fully booked, so we phoned the other to check availability and drove another 15 minutes there. We had our first seafood meal at Clamdiggers. Shayna had mussels and scallops and I had a baked platter of haddock, shrimp, scallops and mashed. We enjoyed that together with a drink. We went back to the room at 10 and settled in for the night.