Accidental fusion food. :)

This morning we woke up to a very cloudy, windy and cold morning, so we wimped out on riding the motorcycles.  We decided to take Gavin’s Xterra and drive the North Cape Coastal Trail, which goes around the west side of the island.  We also decided to drive it in cars because it is the longest, and it doesn’t leave from Charlottetown; so we would have been riding well over 200 miles in the cold and wind.

We quickly discovered that this trail wasn’t quite as scenic as the one Central Coastal Drive from yesterday.  The route followed the coast, but very rarely could we actually see it.  It was mostly farmland, and it also detoured into literally every tiny 10-houses town on the route.  Very few of these tiny towns had anything to attract us, not so much as a gas station, shop or a restaurant!  We finally stopped at a visitor’s center to ask when we could expect to see a restaurant so we could have lunch.  :)

Me on one of the small beaches on the North Cape Coastal Drive. Not a
person in sight, but too cold to swim.  :)

About a half hour farther on the trail, we stopped at the restaurant called The Catch; literally the only restaurant for miles.  Surprisingly, it had great seafood, and it was on a harbor where fishermen were preparing for lobster season; stacks of traps lined the docks.  (since it is the only restaurant for miles, they could easily have been a terrible restaurant and we would have still eaten there gladly!  :)  )

At the topmost point of the island, the North Cape, we got to see the North Cape wind farm.  I’ve seen many of those big windmills before, but this one had a blade lying on the ground that you could get close to; I had no idea they were so big!!!  And we also got to get within 5 feet of the bottom of one of the windmills; I’ve never been that close to one, either, or heard the powerful blades whooshing through the air.

There was a short walking trail at the North Cape wind farm. People had
stacked stones all over on the shore.

Windmill!

Even though this route wasn’t as scenic as the last, Prince Edward Island certainly has beautiful road ditches and wildflowers!  Entire ditches overflow with Queen Anne’s Lace, or wetter ones are full of cat tails.  Many are exploding with purple and yellow flowers, with hundreds of bees humming over them.  

Lovely wildflowers!

A field of Queen Anne's Lace.

When we got back to Charlottetown it had started raining, and the band on Victoria Row was canceled, so we chose an indoor restaurant instead.  I ordered an amusing dish of coconut curry.  It was amusing because obviously the curry paste/spices were for a thai curry dish, but it was served with naan, basmati rice and a samosa.  :)  Accidental fusion food.  :)

Hopefully the weather behaves itself tomorrow; we have one scenic drive left to the eastern side of the island!