PEI Continued

Happy Canada Day, eh!

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PEI population is only 141000.  The economy is based on agriculture, fisheries and tourism.  Potatoes are the number one crop.  There’s a potato museum and a 14’ high potato sculpture mounted on one of the buildings.  I know this will absolutely break your heart but - we weren't near the big spud so no pix; didn’t do the museum either. There are 20 golf courses on the Island, which is quite a bunch considering its size, 139 miles long by an average of 20 miles wide.

Anne's kitchen/dining/living room. 

Anne wasn't real but the house was - and is.  I thought there'd be more gables, was kinda let down.

Sewing and sitting room in Anne's house.

Yesterday, we toured central PEI and a couple small towns plus Anne of Green Gables house and outbuildings.  Don’t recall ever reading Anne but millions did and it’s an extremely popular spot, now part of PEI National Park.  We toured the site, got in free since it was Canada Day. 

The biggest tree in PEI is in the little village of Victoria.  It appeared to be leaning a little to the left so I'm giving it a shove to straighten it out.  Don't know the breed; Trish guessed elm.

We planned to have lunch at The Chowder House, located in some small coastal town, with, allegedly, the best chowder in PEI.  Never found it.  We couldn’t find an address for the place - they’re not big on addresses up here - but did find GPS coordinates.  We entered the coordinates into Jack.  He took us down a dead end dirt road to a single wide mobile home back in the woods.  We chose not to knock on the door of the single wide and ask if the chowder was ready.  Instead, did a u-turn, went home, had leftover grilled salmon - which was not a hardship by any means.