Wednesday June 4th

#18 Dalvay by the Sea to #19 Mount Stewart.

It was a beautiful sunny day today, and we started the day out early as it was a full pack day which takes us a little longer. We also had to go beyond Mount Stewart to get to our B&B.

There is about 7 km of road walking before you turn on to the Confederation Trail 👣. Once you get there it is a right to go to Charlottetown or a left if you are continuing the Island Walk journey so left we went.

Quite honestly the day was long and slow, hot 🔥, mosquitoes 🦟, and my knee was acting up. So we plodded along. This section of the Confederation Trail is pretty much the same as the rest, some marsh, some trees 🌲, some benches, not much shade 😒.

If you do stop and read the placards along the trail you do learn quite a lot about the area, history, and flora and fauna. So when you have the time I encourage you it is very interesting, and makes for a good quick break.

About 10 kms into the Confederation Trail we were very happy to see the Convenience store and Robins Doughnuts.

Of course we stopped for a break, fueled up and we were on our way.

Well then we had a bit of a scare 😱.Petra is a diabetic and she she took a reading just as we got back on to the trail and the reading came up quite low. So we made her stop and wait 10 minutes to do another reading. Reluctantly she did as we asked, and we waited did another reading and it was even lower. So we got everything we had out of our packs and threw it at her, wine gums, I made her drink some straight up Pepsi, trail mix, a protein bar. We waited another ten minutes she did another reading, we’ll this time it did not even register 😒 so she messaged her daughter who is a nurse. And then we figured out her sensor was not working properly. First time it has ever happened to her. Luckily she had a spare, she changed it out and we continued on our way. She could not do another reading for an hour but when she could finally do one of course it was high because we plyed her with sugar. We all laughed about it after but it was pretty scary for Meadow and I.

We made it to way point 19 with no other incidents. Whew.

We had to continue on another approx 3kms to our B&B – Bishops Rest. We arrived at about 4:30 hot sweaty and tired. We were greeted by our hostess Sarah, with a big jug of ice water and fresh made Bishops Rest Cinnamon rolls.

If you have not tried them they are absolutely delicious, the Bishops Rest bakery is run by Ben who is not only a baker, but a chef. And for dinner we ordered personalized home made meals.

So really today’s trip was not really about the trip as much as it was the destination. The meals were excellent, also gourmet dessert.

And the beds were so comfortable.

I think this B&B is the number one stay on the trip so far, and I would highly recommend it to anyone doingbthe walk. It is literally just steps off the trail.

Ok that is enough for this post.🙂 Looking forward to what today brings and meeting up with Jean and Trooper today, to join us for our walk.