May 25 - Montague, Prince Edward Island to Linwood, Nova Scotia
Our morning drive around Montague didn’t take very long. There was not much to see that couldn’t be seen from the hotel window. We headed back into Charlottetown later than initially planned but still in time for the 2pm ferry from Wood Islands some 62km south east of Charlottetown.
Arriving in Charlottetown, Vanessa and I were stumped with a bit of a problem we didn’t anticipate – where did we rent the car from? The car company had picked us up from the edge of town and driven through the residential streets that were not easy to back track. We had a rough idea and after a bit of searching we found the place.
Time was getting on and the car hire guy was not exactly speedy. We ended up paying $65 for a taxi all the way to Wood Islands, the complete lack of a public transport system in the province was proving expensive. Arriving at the ferry terminal we were just in time to see the 2pm ferry set sail. It was to be a 3 hour wait for it to return from Nova Scotia.
Eventually when we boarded the 5pm ferry, now so far behind our first plan we had when arriving the island, things began to look good again. A guy sat behind us on the ferry offered us a lift right to where we wanted to go, Linwood, Nova Scotia. This was a serious stroke of good luck but when he eventually dropped us at the Irving Mainway at Monastery near Linwood we discovered that it was another 6km walk with out backpacks and other stuff.
An hour into the rapidly tiring walk, a walk that we weren’t even sure if we were going the right way anymore, one of Vanessa’s relatives stopped as they drove past and gave us a lift the rest of the way.
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