Anne of Green Gables

Anne's statue

Road side marker for the Green Gables route

Montgomery's birthplace, only a few miles from
Green Gables

The Green Gables house belonged to Montgomery's
aunt and uncle; it was added onto at one point to
accommodate the overnight guests visiting the
house because of the novels; now part of the
museum complex

Back of house

View from Anne's window

House is decorated in period furniture

The room Montgomery visualized as Anne's

Haunted Wood

Lovers' Lane; the house is surrounded by outstanding
natural beauty that the novels bring to the reader's mind

Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island, Canada's smallest province, is close to Nova Scotia and certainly worth a visit. Vicki had read Anne of Green Gables in preparation, and then all of Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne novels, and more, so we had to go. We were two days there, partly driving the pretty island, partly visiting the several Anne of Green Gables sites. Among other things, we were struck by how much PEI reminded us of New Zealand.

One of many beautiful churches on the island

Sea farming all around the island

Other kinds of farming too; PEI has three
industries, I think: farming, shellfish farming,
and Anne of Green Gables

Typical

One of many little fishing coves

This aqua-farm had a retail outlet, from which I
got some wonderful, large oysters and some very
fresh mussels for seafood feasts the next few nights

Us, at the dunes on the north (east?) end of the
island

Thus

Standard PEI lighthouse

But here, at the farthest north we'd get, the foliage
was beginning to change

And so, after a day with Anne, we headed back
over the impressive Confederation Bridge, to New
Brunswick and then Maine, and the leaves

Cape Breton Island

We spent most of the next three days, October 4-6, driving and hiking on Cape Breton Island. It really is an island, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel and joined by a low bridge. We spent the night of the 4th in an actual campground, at Cape Breton Island Highlands National Park.

Vicki by a fallen giant burl at the campground 

Automated weather station at the campgound

Driving the NP highway which passes through much of the island

Nice views

Road work--two construction workers, belayed, spraying water on a cliff high
over the repaved highway

Views from our hike on the Skyline Trail

Apart from the ferns, not much sign of autumn here

Dangerous country

North side of island

One of our better wild camping sites, near Neil's Cove on the Atlantic side

But for the fog horn on this buoy, half a mile off shore...

Everywhere we drove, there were lobster traps piled in front yards, some for sale,
and many fishing boats

On the NP's Cove Loop

Note lobster traps and boats; turns out lobster season was over July 31st

Typical

Another quirk of CBI...nearly every house had a box like this out front, some 
nicely painted...turns out they were for trash pick-up

At the glass-blowers federation coop

Very Scottish part of the island; saidto have m ore fiddlers per
capita than anywhere else

Autumn beginning to show