Day 15 - Charlottetown, PEI

Today we drove from our campsite at Hopewell Rock Park to Moncton in the morning, hoping to catch high tide at the Petitcodiac River. The east coast of New Brunswick, in the Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world, and where the tide rushes up the inlet to this river, it is the fastest tide in the world. The river will rise 25 feet in just one hour. When the "Tidal Bore" arrives you can actually watch the small tidal wave push upstream and fill the river with water. Though we were hoping for an enormous and violent wave to come crashing through, it actually appears quite subtle. However it's speed and power is pretty incredible, as well as the amount of water which so quickly fills the river. After that we drove back to Hopewell Rock to see the same views as yesterday at high tide.

We are now onto our next Province, PEI. We crossed the huge Confederation bridge, almost 13km long, actually I should say Nicola drove across it..."This is the first real bridge I've ever driven across!!" as she let out a nervous giggle with her concentrated stare and white knuckled grip. This place is so nice though, the entire province is a constant view. You can look in any direction at any time and it's postcard perfect. We visited the small old village of Victoria by the sea and then off to Charlottetown for a lobster dinner, for Mark anyways, for Nicola who doesn't like seafood she has few if any options on the menu. After that we camped at Pine Hills campground just out side Charlottetown for the night, private campgrounds are quite nice here, they all have pools and hot showers, a very nice luxury for us at this point. The swimming has been great so far, and I am actually learning to dive from my swim instructor Nicola. I guess we automatically become plural as soon as you cross the bridge, we are loving the east coast lingo. Hope yous guys are enjoying reading this.

The "Tidal Bore", this wave is actually the tide pushing upstream against the river

Daniel Flats at high tide, doesn't look like much until you compare to yesterday's pictures

Hopewell Rocks at high tide, compare to picture from yesterday

Nicola driving across the bridge, I think she deserves an Oscar for appearing to be calm

Yet another province down, only two more after this one, except for those ones up North, but they don't really count

A view of some harbour, the whole Province is like this full of nice little bays and so much coastline

Mmmmmm, lobster dinner....hope you enjoyed your salad Nicola, at least she's a cheap date