Summerside

It was a very blustery night which made sleeping difficult. Lawn chairs flew, campers' gazebo tents toppled. I got up during the night to close our two window awnings. It did make for more pleasant temperatures, reaching 22º under mainly sunny skies.

Our first stop of the day was in O'Leary at the Canadian Potato Museum, The building also houses a community museum full of artifacts. The price of admission ($16 for 2 seniors) covered both museums. The potato  museum was SO interesting, literally  anything and everything there is to know about  the spud, its history, cultivation, harvesting and many fun facts. It was information overload. We even got to sample potato fudge... delicious.

We drove directly to Linkletter Provincial Park on the Northumberland Strait with a view of the Confederation bridge off in the distance. We were able to get a full service drive through site for an easier return at night.

   We were only a few km from Summerside where we stopped at           Spinnakers' Landing on Summerside Harbour. We browsed through the shops. Kathy walked along the boardwalk. We had takeout fish (haddock) and chips from Jolly Rogers Seafood for supper. 

The highlight of the day was "A Summerside Saturday Night" at the Scott MacAulay Performing Arts Centre at the College of Piping and Celtic Performing Arts of Canada. The show was fantastic  and included performances by the Encore step dance group, Shane Cook (a fiddler) and the Woodchippers on  bass, guitar and keyboard. The finale included all of the performers.

We had no difficulty returning to our site at 10:00. It was another short driving day, 106 km.