Old Rustico and Cows.

Our holiday is drawing to a close and we are getting to the end of our to do list. The main thing was to complete the Points East Coastal Drive which we started about a week ago. So we finished it yesterday. On Saturday we decided to take it easy after the hectic few days in Nova Scotia. I took some time on the blog and then, because it was such a beautiful day, we decided to go to Old Rustico where there is a boardwalk along the waterfront going from the village to the harbour - a nice little walk.

Along the boardwalk there are carvings to represent the natives of the area, as well as the Acadian settlers, the flora and fauna and the ways of making a living.

The Great Blue Heron - there are many to be seen around here.

Shipbuilding.

The Mi'kmaq - First Nation.

The Acadians.

OLd Rustico

Fishing vessel prepared to take tourists deep sea fishing. During the Lobster season they fish for lobster.

We had a lovely walk, lunched in The Blue Mussel in Rustico Harbour and spent a while in Old Rustico looking round the town. Then we decided to go back to the National Park and look again at the scenery there. En route we met the same fox as the last day - it must have been because he was waving at us obviously recognising us as friends. Maybe he realised he was unlikely to see us again!

On our return journey we stopped off for Jim to get a new hat:

I got one too!

The most famous ice-cream in Canada is COWS CREAMERY which is based in the outskirts of Charlottetown. They do tours so we stopped off on a whim and did a tour. It wasn't that exciting but we got samples of cheese and ice-cream (not at the same time - is cheese nice with ice-cream?). Anyway, Cows is a thriving company which makes humorous tee-shirts, ice-cream, butter and cheese.