Dishing it up in Cavendish

July 30, 2015 – Day 45

You may recognize Cavendish as the home of Anne of Green Gables!   The book was published in 1908, but I hadn’t read it until this trip.  What a great story, and very neat to think we are in the spot that inspired the author.   Last night we went to the musical in Charlottetown, which told the story about Anne of Green Gables.  It was a delightful production, part of the Charlottetown Festival.  Today, we toured Green Gables, a National Historic Site of Canada.  This house and grounds are the places described in the novel.  We were able to see Anne’s room, and took a walk down the trail that Anne loved—Lover’s Lane!

Cavendish is a small community of a few hundred people, but gets almost a million visitors each year!  Prince Edward Island National Park is located here, and has a beautiful red rock shoreline, dunes and beaches.

 

We had lunch at the PEI Preserve Company (raspberry cheesecake pie for dessert) and watched them make preserves.  We also visited a cheese factory with trays of gouda cheese!  You can see that food continues to carry a priority with this group!

The countryside is beautiful.  There are rolling green hills right up to the water’s edge, another scene that could be a jigsaw puzzle picture.  And, we spotted an osprey nest along the side of the road.

After returning to the campground we had our last “drivers meeting” to review the schedule for the next few days.  It will be strange to drive out on Sunday morning without a trip log to tell us which way to turn when we exit the campground!

The weather was so great we grilled out and ended the evening with a campfire.  This is one of the few times its been dry enough and warm enough to be outside!  Lovin it!