Day 75: All Places Lucy Maud Montgomery

 Dear Gilles. 

It was 23C today. It was beautiful. 

We started the day with egg sandwhiches that I made at the campground and headed to the Green Gables Historic site around 10am. There were four tour buses there already. 

We toured the house. Posed for some photos with NO ONE in them. 

Tourists from Japan with dyed red hair were with us and also enjoyed the novelty of only themselves in the photos. 

We walked the Haunted Wood to a privately run site of the house LMM grew up in. It's no longer a house, just a foundation. There is a bookstore there that offers a stamped LMM signature in any book that you purchase. 

Then we walked to LMM's final resting place, with her husband. Patric found his own interesting markers (see alternate post). 

Then it was a short drive to LMM's birthplace. And after that to the Green Gables Museum. 

All places were the same, but different. 

The most interactive was the birthplace. She gave us a verbal history of the importance of the house, her family and other bits and pieces. She let me touch and open the Waterloo cook stove.

We finished all four sites just after 2:00 and it was so nice and sunshiny that I didn't want to go back to the campsite just yet. We headed to Cavendish National Park to visit a beach. We spent more than an hour on the beach - doing beach things in the sand. 

It was a nice and easy and restful day. 

I have more than 100 photos of today. 

Tomorrow will be a ZERO day - the weather promises to be summer again. We'll take the bikes out to the nearby trails.