Our first day trip this year was to Kings Castle Provincial Park with all seven of our combined kids! It was a great park, but kind of far from the cottage, at least an hour. Considering I grew up on PEI, and come here every summer, it's hard to believe it was my first time going there!
When we got there the kids loved it (ages 2-11). There were paths through the woods with Story Book characters, which the kids climbed all over. There was a huge playground in the middle of the woods, with lots of climbing structures, slides and fun things for the kids to do. The kids all loved the park. We brought a picnic and that was fun! After being there a few minutes about 50 kids came from a camp, and basically crowded the whole park and took over all the slides and structures. The kids were a bit disappointed about that so we tried to avoid the crowd and headed down the the beach. In comparison to the beaches on the ocean this beach was not too exciting to the kids, seaweed and jellyfish galore. They did walk down to a point at the beach and explored shells etc. After exploring the beach the other group of kids left and they enjoyed the park a bit more.
We then headed to Cape Bear where we thought we might see some seals. We went to the lighthouse and the Cape but no luck on the Seals.
We then headed to Montague to eat at Gillis Drive In. Deep fried food and ice cream, delicious but not healthy!! The kids thoroughly enjoyed!
Headed back to Rustico to go to bed!!! If there had not been a crowd at this park and if we had seen seals, I would have rated this trip a 10!! But due to those other factors, I would have to rate this day trip about a 7 out of 10. Plus the drive was long.
Plus sides of trip - drove through Murray River and Murray Harbor, but gorgeous little towns (but totally dead). A few cute little shops to explore if you don't have 7 plus kids with you!
Montague was a bit dead also, and many things seemed closed down...
The provincial park was free, the seal watching (although we never saw seals, perhaps not the best place, will investigate further) was free, Gillis Drive-In about $40 for a family of 5.
BTW, don't drive over the cliffs at Cape Bear or Bear Point. LOL
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Posted by: Nike Dunks | August 16, 2010 at 08:24 PM