Journal Day 34

We were up and off early this morning... the fisherman were already going after the oysters... We headed northwest toward the North Point... the distances appear farther on the PEI map, so we arrived by noon... surprise was that there was an experimental wind farm on the point being managed by New Brunswick University... they already had a handful of windmills in operation and were installing another very large one.... the point had the same rugged beauty we have seen in other areas, with the eroded coast line bright red from the soil.... there was a sandy spit that ran out into the gulf of St. Lawrence covered with sea birds, and appearing and disappearing with the tides.... The lighthouse was almost identical to the one we saw on the Eastpoint....

We had a picnic lunch at the point, and then headed back following along the coast for awhile..... lots of scenic coves and harbors, with farms raising cows and horses on the land side... a pretty drive back...

We were back by 4:00 and began to reorganize our storage for the trip home... we are planning to leave tomorrow, heading down to St. John, New Brunswick, which is on the way to the Maine border... we will stay in St. John overnight, and decide on which Maine border point to cross on Wednesday...

This is a friendly campground.... a young boy and his little sister (4 years old and 3) came by and sat on the picnic table and talked with us for awhile.... they said they had been by earlier and had left some shells on our picnic table for us (3 clam shells)... he asked if I spoke French, cuz he said he did.... we gave them some cookies, after which their father discovered they were missing and came by to get us... they were from Alberta and had been on the road for two months... the father asked for a tour of the Aliner, and Suzanne obliged while I worked on my journal entries for today... the father told me that the boy was bi-lingual because his mother was French and spoke to both of the children in French...

A man camping near us in a tent camper stopped over and told us he was from Minneapolis... was traveling by himself in the Maritimes... he was interested in our Aliner, as he said it takes him about 30 minutes to get his tent camper setup... these types of interruptions are common when you are camping in an Aliner....

This morning on my walk, I talked with a man pulling a 5th wheel with a new Dodge truck.... he told me that he had to lay over in Vermont a day to have his gas tank replaced... was leaking gas out the overflow connection.... Leaky gas tanks seem to be a Chrysler feature.... A man we met while waiting to have his email uploaded told us he was here for 4 days waiting for a part to fix the transmission on his Dodge Durango.. no air drops so the part had to be trucked across Canada.... I guess we keep the Chrysler dealers busy up here during tourist season....

We are ready for the trip home...