Tuesday July 29th – Cavendish
and Green Gables
Today it was supposed
to be thundershowers but we awoke to a bright beautiful sunny day. Packed a
picnic lunch and off to see Green Gables in Cavendish. Its part of Canada's
National Park and historic buildings stuff so we got in free with our Discovery
Pass...it has certainly paid its way since we bought it in Alberta last year.
So we retraced the footsteps of Lucy Maude Montgomery and visited the Green
Gable house...its not strictly original but has been decorated and furnished in
the style of Green Gables in the novel. We walked through Lovers Lane to Balsam
Hollow and then over to the Haunted Woods. All places from Montgomery's life and in the Anne novels
The recreation of this 19th century icon is actually very well done. We
saw the footings that remain of the McNeil home where LMM’s grandparents raised her from a baby after her mother died when she was almost 2 yr old, and the lane that she would run home from school. There were
numerous early pictures of her life and thus it was easy to reconstruct her
childhood and draw the similarities to Anne (with an E of course).  |
| Lovers Lane |
We got a few
groceries and drove along the Cavendish beach front, stopping for a while on
the beach and listening to the ocean. BBQ pork tenderloin and a Skype with
Grant finished off our wonderful day.
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| Haunted Woods |
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| Whats left of LM Mongomery's childhood home |
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| View from the ruins |
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| Lunch on the beach |
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| Not a soul in sight - well one anyway! |
