Sunday at Charlottetown Farmer's Market

Camping in the rain is a challenge.  The rain has been following us for the past few days.  It rained so hard on Friday morning that we decided to stay another day in Cavendish to wait out the storm.  Saturday was another long day on the road in varying conditions that we decided to change locations and head towards Charlottetown.   3 hours by Google Maps turned into another 7 hour day so the decision was made to find a motel and not have to worry about packing up a wet tent the next morning

Try as we might to find a suitable (ie: cheap) hotel met with little success.   The first few we tried were fully booked.  It seems that the St Johns Mosquito baseball team was in town and all the rooms were taken.  So we wake up to a morning sunrise the next day

in familiar surroundings.  It's a lucky thing we have alternatives by bringing our camping equipment

We head into town and walk about the main streets and find that today is Farmer's Market day on Queen street

There were stalls set up with vendors selling locally crafted items

There were several musicians entertaining the tourists

and more places to have an ice cream

Many of the buildings have been refurbished to modern standards

after strolling the waterfront and a few side streets for a few hours we mounted our bikes and headed for Wood Island and saw some interesting staging areas along the way

and eventually ended up at the Historic lighthouse

a relaxing day in Charlottetown, PEI