Coast to Coast? Check.

After taking a day off in Fredericton, Aiden and I began to make our way to the Atlantic Ocean. The first glimpse of the Atlantic was in Shediac, NB a place that certainly seemed to like its lobster as there was a giant plastic one outside the info center and more lobster restaurants than I have seen anywhere. From Shediac we were only a morning's ride to the Confederation Bridge that links PEI to the rest of Canada. While waiting for the shuttle bus to take us across the bridge (cyclists aren't allowed to ride it themselves) we met two other cyclists who were also waiting. One was a French gentleman on a mountain bike who we had seen the day before and the other was an older guy riding across Canada solo. The man with the mountain bike had done some riding in some pretty interesting places (Argentina and Chile were two he talked about) so I suppose his choice of bike made sense.

I had been warned by several cyclists along our travels about how hilly PEI was. Our first day on the island heading towards Summerside certainly disproved that; it wasn't any hillier than what we saw in Saskatchewan. In Summerside we were lucky enough to have accommodation that wasn't campsite, we were hosted by Brian and Daphne (Daphne, a friend of Aiden's mom, knew Aiden from when he was a little kid in Halifax.) It was our first home cooked dinner in a long while which was an excellent change. Thanks again for having us! The next day we did what seemingly everyone else visiting PEI was doing and that was to visit Cavendish and all of the Anne of Green Gables stuff. I haven't read the book, but the house that inspired Anne's home in the novel was nice. I thought the best part of the town was Cavendish Beach, I really liked the steep red cliffs.

On our way to Charlottetown we took advantage of the old railbed that has been converted into a bike path that runs the length of PEI. The path was some solid cycling, and in a uniform good shape, so I didn't break any spokes this time. On the ferry from PEI to Nova Scotia both Aiden and I were disappointed when they didn't have BC burgers for us at the cafeteria, other than that it was similar to what BC Ferries is like (except for the boat being a little more retro.) We had a long day into Antigonish, but it was good in that we have just over 200 kms of cycling left in Nova Scotia, so hopefully two relatively easy days await us before Newfoundland. More on the theme of running into cyclists, we saw Brain and Pat again at the Antigonish campsite, kind of funny how we keep running into them. Bed time.