Day 8 - Tour of PEI

The weather is playing a big part of this vacation... and not always in a good way!  Today during the weather briefing I had to laugh.  One minute it was all good to go, and the next they were recommending not going, etc.  We finally decided that we would probably have at least 4 good hours this morning, so we hopped on the shuttle and headed to the airport.  A lot of others had the same idea so we had some good company.  We found someone to sell us some oil for the airplane, got the plane ready and headed out to circumnavigate the island.  It was so beautiful!  I wish the skies had been a bit clearer, but at this point we'll take what we can get!  I took a LOT of pictures while we were up, so I'm only going to include a few (lots more than a few... but you don't have to look at them all!)

I love PEI.  Just walking out to the plane made me smile to see all the yellow and purple flowers everywhere.  

I had my longer lens on the camera when we took off so I could get all the planes, but this gives you a bit of an idea of the planes that are tied down at the airport.

I loved seeing all the red coastlines.

More coastline.

Another view of the Confederation Bridge.

There were so many light houses!

This is one of the wind farms on the far end of the island.

Another lighthouse... not in perfect focus as it is extremely difficult to zoom in, hold the camera still enough and get it to focus on anything other than the canopy!

More scenery.

Love the patchwork fields.

After we got back from flying, we got a shuttle downtown and went to lunch at Lobster on the Wharf.  I had fish & chips and Lennard had a fisherman's platter.  SO good!  We ended meeting up with Darren, his dad and Guy there, so we had lunch together and then wandered around a bunch of the shops.  We found some fun gifts for the kids.  Can't wait to see their reactions!  

It started to sprinkle just as we got the shuttle back to the hotel and then poured once we got to our room.  We were glad that we didn't get caught in it!  The Century Flight had a Wing night at the hotel tonight that we went down to.  It was a bit interesting as everyone showed up at the same time and the wait staff got completely overwhelmed.  No one got their orders very quickly and it was really loud. I finished my dinner and headed back up to the room.  I'm actually looking forward to a nice early (quiet) night!

Stats... another hour and 45 minutes of flying time!