Leaving PEI, traveling through NB

We left the Cavendish campground on Prince Edward Island at the crack of 11am this morning... our plan was that we were only going to Moncton (about 2.5 hours), so no need for an early start.

A picture of farmland with Gulf of St Lawrence beyond - Dwayne took this a couple of days ago but I just pulled the pictures from his phone today.

There is only a toll for the bridge when you are *leaving* Prince Edward Island. We got into the line with a human to help us - if you were just a 2 axle vehicle, you could have gone through the self-serve line - the furthest to the left were for multi-pass holders - I guess like toll tags. Our toll was $46 for 2 axles, + $7.50 for each additional axle, for a total of $68.50.

Traffic was all stopped beyond the tollbooths...

"Temporary Closure - Special Vehicle"

We got a glimpse of the "Special Vehicle" - it was a wide load. They stop traffic in the opposite lanes to allow the wide load to cross.

The bridge is about 10 miles long.

It has a curve in it, and a raised part for taller boats. I read that they considered putting in a causeway for part of the crossing, but the tides in this area are large, and they felt that if they narrowed the opening, the currents would be too strong for boats to be able to travel through it!

A small boat was traveling under the bridge as we were crossing.

 We had planned to stay in Moncton, NB, for a night or two, to look for the hi/low hitch that we need. We called a few places when we got to the Walmart in Moncton, and it didn't seem that they were going to be able to provide us what we needed, so we decided to proceed onwards, continuing west toward Fredericton, NB, where we've stopped at the Walmart for the night.

When shopping in Walmart, we noticed that milk came in plastic bags - maybe it is available this way in the US as well, but we haven't noticed it before.

I asked a guy who picked one up while we were there if he had a special pitcher to use it, and he pointed to these at the end of the counter. I am still not exactly sure how you get the milk into the pitcher without making a mess... each of those packages in the picture before had 3 smaller plastic bags inside of it.

There was a beautiful sunset here at the Fredericton Walmart this evening.