Rob-n-Hild, Eastward Ho!
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Cavendish - Dartmouth 321 km, 4 hours - Driving. 26.1 km, 1:03 hours - Sailing 
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| After we both had meetings this morning, we had to drive to a ferry and leave PEI for Nova Scotia, so we didn't do a lot of sightseeing. We got to go on another ferry though. Mary Jane is getting quite bored with the usual drive on-drive off ones now - after being hoisted aboard the Bella in a container! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We didn't get going until nearly 11, but we still found a place to have lunch at St Peters Bay. You can't see it in the photo, but there were a lot of buoys in the water and we are pretty sure that are mussel or oyster farms as this is a big industry in PEI. From there we tried to find some bison as there is a wildlife park in this part of the island, but we didn't have time (or the inclination) to go in and we couldn't see them from the road. Imagine there are bison in the fields above! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Then it was down to the MV Confederation - the Wood Islands/Caribou Ferry as we left PEI behind. This is pretty much the usual drive on-drive off ferry, but Mary Jane was directed into the bottom hold (again) so we had a long climb from A deck! The pilot had a very narrow gap to get out of, but since they probably do this 4 times a day we got through unscathed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| It was just over an hour on the ferry and we were off again to Dartmouth through Truro (again) so it was a road we had used before. Dartmouth is across the bay from Halifax - the capital of Nova Scotia. We are staying here because we are a bit cheap - the hotels in Halifax are twice the price of the hotels here! The fun thing is that there is a cute little harbour ferry that crosses between Halifax and Dartmouth, which we checked out after having pizza for dinner. We worked out how to use this and will probably go into Halifax tomorrow as the weather is nice. The propeller above is the actual propeller from a ice-breaker which was assisting an oil tanker crossing the Northwest passage in 1969. On the way this happened to the icebreaker's propeller, but she carried on until they got to open water. Tough ship! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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