| Northeast Trip 2007 - Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia |
| We continued on around Prince Edward Island and stopped at several historic lighthouses. The farms on the island were all tidy and neat and looked like something out of a picture book. |
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| This is the Woods Island lighthouse, located near where you catch the car ferry back to the mainland. |
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| We stopped at Greenwich-Prince Edward Island National Park and walked some nice trails out to the ocean beaches. There are sections of boardwalk that cross shallow ponds behind the shore dunes. |
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| We went to a coastal town called Pictou, Nova Scotia. This is where the first shipload of settlers from the Scottish Highlands came on the ship Hector in 1773. Pictou calls itself the origination of "New Scotland", or Nova Scotia. |
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| Many of the old buildings in Pictou reminded Penny of those in Scotland. |
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| This is the Cape Bear Lighthouse, built in 1881. It was the first wireless station to receive a distress signal from the Titanic as it was sinking. |
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| We circled around the island and crossed the Confedration bridge back to Nova Scotia. We drove south through Truro, where they have carved tree trunks into statues of famous figures in Canadian history. |
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| Pictou was celebrating the Hector Festival, so we stayed a couple days. There was live celtic music at the city cultural center, and an evening Ceilidh (Kitchen Party) with lot's of great fiddle, guitar and vocal music and dancing. |
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| Before the evening Ceilidh began, a pipe and drum group setup on the front lawn of the cultural center and entertained as folks arrived for the eveing show. |
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