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[quote=Anonymous]I went a decade ago with my husband / pre kids. We flew in and out of PEI and then drove straight to Cape Breton Island (Baddeck) the next  day. We loved Nova Scotia, but only did the Cabot trail. We were there in August - when the puffins migrate to sea - so I wanted to make sure to get there first and see them. Frankly they weren’t all that exciting. Very little birds busily collecting sand eels (so diving a lot). I’m not sure if they’d sit still and be more visible in other months. Baddeck was fine - I didn’t love it. Because we prioritized getting to the puffins we also duplicated portions of the drive.

From Baddeck we went to Cheticamp. We did the non-costal portion of the Cabot trail and that’s something you could certainly skip. Cheticamp was great and I could imagine my kids liking it. We did a hike right behind the ranger station that said it was hard but wasn’t bad. We also did the Skyline trail (saw lots of kids) and went on a whale watch (really good experience / would recommend). From there we drove to Ingonish. We did a long drive toward Meat Cove (pretty but wouldn’t recommend the detour). Somewhere along that route was a waterfall we could drive to with our rental car. We stopped and hiked at Middelhead (I think it was called) behind the Celtic lodge. That was a really pretty trail and there were lots of kids. The detours and hike made for a kind of long day (we also got delayed leaving Cheticamp) so we didn’t explore beaches along the way - there were some with lots of kids playing. After spending the night in Ingonish we did a morning kayak with North River kayaks which was fun (again, family friendly). From there we drove half way back toward PEI (stoping at Azelia house bed and breakfast outside Antingobish). On the way we went via Mabou which seemed really fun. We went on a short hike / walk, visited an art gallery, and saw great music in the Red Shoe Pub, but we were only in town for s few hours. It seemed like it could be a good place to stay / would have stuff (like the music) going on kids would enjoy.

We crossed to PEI on the ferry. We stayed walking distance from Green Gables and beaches. We visited a horse farm / vineyard on the way in, went to a fishing town and had ice cream, and spent time at the national park near Green Gables. We also went to the dunes in Greenwich and got eaten alive (somehow through our raincoats) by mosquitos. I liked seeing all foxes on the island and the Anne sights - and never made it to the northern part - but I far preferred Cape Breton to PEI. Unlike another poster, I’d skip PEI (or do one of the other maritime islands instead) if I weren’t into the Anne of Green gables story. If you do go to PEI, so a “church supper”. I think there are two or three well known ones and I heard people have different opinions about which to do. On a whim our last day - when we had a few hours before our flight - we went to the Canadian Goat soap factory. It was fun to feed the goats and just do something totally different.  [/quote]

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