{"id":1661,"date":"2011-09-13T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T01:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdhive.org\/glob\/?p=1661"},"modified":"2012-05-26T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T02:40:00","slug":"the-right-coast-and-homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.soleillapierre.ca\/blog\/?p=1661","title":{"rendered":"The Right Coast and Homeward Bound"},"content":{"rendered":"

2011\/09\/13<\/p>\n

Today I woke up to find Halifax shrouded in fog:<\/p>\n

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My plan was to catch the 1pm ferry to Prince Edward Island, so I hit the road as soon as I could. Modulo a delay searching for a gas station, and picking up something to eat later on.\u00a0 I ended up being lucky; I arrived at the ferry terminal just as the boat was docking, but still managed to get aboard.<\/p>\n

The ferries here are smaller than the ones in BC, but still have a pretty decent vehicle capacity.<\/p>\n

I saw my first wild whale.\u00a0 It was most of a mile away – this is an unscaled crop from a telephoto shot.\u00a0 I leave identifying the species to you.<\/p>\n

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On arrival on the island, I had my lunch then drove through Charlottetown to Brackley Beach<\/a>, which serves as the east coast analogue of Long Beach for this journey.<\/p>\n

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It is a pretty nice beach, with large sand dunes, soft sand and a good breeze.\u00a0 I took my shoes off and walked on the sand, and dipped my toes in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

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And with that (cue music) the eastbound leg of my journey comes to an end.<\/p>\n

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As for my timelapse movie project, so far I’ve recorded 180,000 frames and the camera is still holding out.<\/p>\n

Westbound<\/h2>\n

Time to turn around and head home.<\/p>\n

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I’m actually excited to be heading back.\u00a0 It’s a very similar feeling to when I started my trip, only instead of the flavor of visiting old haunts with an aftertaste of new discovery, this time it’s the other order with a final sweetness of homecoming.\u00a0 I’ll be going faster on the return trip, but I do have a couple of short layovers planned.\u00a0 Ottawa is the first.<\/p>\n

Anyway, after leaving the beach, I took a short detour up the coast to Cavendish, home of Lucy Maud Montgomery of “Anne of Green Gables” fame.\u00a0 I’ve never read the books and I barely remember the TV series, but my mother is a fan so I thought I’d get her a souvenir.\u00a0 I got there just as they were closing, so I got in for free and got a bunch of photos of the place.<\/p>\n

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I thought this Green Gables house was a recreation of a fictional house from the book series, but talking to the tour guide, this turns out not to be the case.\u00a0 This is the real house that inspired the books; LMM lived a short ways from here but hung out in this house a lot.\u00a0 They’ve redecorated the interior slightly to make it match some details from the books, but otherwise it’s original.<\/p>\n

Then drove back to Moncton for the night, passing over the Confederation Bridge<\/a> on the way.\u00a0 It’s pretty nice.\u00a0 Only two lanes, but it is eight miles<\/strong> long.\u00a0 It’s like driving over the ocean, because that’s what it is.<\/p>\n

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We really should get one of these for Vancouver Island.\u00a0 Problem with this one is the $45 toll, which is subsidizing the ferry service down the coast – my boat ride was free; they get you on the way back, whichever way you go.<\/p>\n

Today was a bit of a long day, but amazingly everything went according to my ridiculously ambitious plan.<\/p>\n

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