Around 5 a.m. Atlantic Daylight Time, I woke up in New Brunswick. It felt weird to fall asleep in one province and wake up in another. At that point we were on the Route 2, the Trans-Canada Highway, north of Florenceville. After we passed Fredericton, we began looking for a place to eat breakfast. We stopped at two restaurants on the side of the highway, but neither of them could take a group our size. One restaurant was called "Restaurant", and the other was called "Harvest Restaurant". We finally pulled off the highway into Sussex. There we went to Fergie's Lounge and Steakhouse, on Gateway Street. Inside there was a quite old RCA projection television, tuned to CMT. The restaurant also contained pool tables, arcade games, and pinball machines. Before we ate we played with these. This restaurant is also equipped with a stage and skeaker system for small concerts. For breakfast they served us sausages, homefries, four slices of buttered toast, and over-easy eggs. I ate the sausages and homefries, but I don't like buttered toast and I don't like eggs (really!). So, I gave my toast and eggs to one of the other Scouts who ate it all.
After breakfast, we continued eastbound on Hwy 2 through Moncton. We started watching the James Bond movie Dr. No. After Moncton, we exited onto Hwy 15, which led us onto Hwy 16, and onto the Confederation Bridge. Many of us took photos of the bridge and of the Northumberland Strait. The best thing I liked about the bridge was that it was so long that when we first got on it, we couldn't see the other side. At the end of the bridge, we pulled into the tourist centre in Borden-Carleton, PEI. There we looked around at a couple shops, before we went into Subway for lunch. There was one shop where you could deposit a penny into a machine, and the machine would re-press the copper into some sort of PEI-themed coin. While everybody had subs, I had a wrap with Lay's chips. We ate outside at the picnic tables, where there was a young girl performing a traditional Acadian dance. Some of us gave her some change.
From there we went on to Kensington via Routes 1, 1A, and 2. From Kensington we went north on Route 20 onto Malpeque Road, which led to Cabot Beach Provincial Park, the site of CJ'01. Please see map below to see where Cabot Park was located in PEI. |
