Come Play on Our Island!Welcome to PEI! Come and join us on our trip to PEI! Visit cool beaches, small fishing villages, and the longest covered bridge in the world!!
This is Mike milking the Cows cow! Cows is the best place on earth to get scoop ice-cream! They are a wonderful place to hang out, eat ice-cream and browse through the store. The merchandise is wonderful. T-shirts depicting events and things that are local, and that are cow related! They have mugs, stickers, magnets, notepads, shirts, sweatshirts, you name it!! You can shop at COWS Prince Edward Island to see their merchandise! I'm a big fan! ![]() ![]() This is Mike and I on our seal watching cruise in Murray River, PEI. We went there on Monday, July 5, 1999. We were guaranteed to see seals, and we did see about 7 of them. Some of them were large, some small, and even one white one. It was an excellent cruise! It lasted about 2 hours or so. The guide/captain informed us that early in the morning or later in the evening are the best times to see the seals for they are lounging on the sand bars. When the tide is in, as it was when we were there, they are out in the bay feeding. After the cruise, we headed out to Murray Harbour to have the best hot fudge sundae in the world!!
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We spent our last full day in PEI at Basin Head Beach! As you can see from this photo of the stats sign it wasn't too nice a day... however, in the end it did turn warm, and I got a nasty sunburn on my back, not nice for a LONG drive home to Ontario! (about 2000 kms) Basin Head is known for it's "singing sand." The sand has a high silica content, and thus "sings or squeaks" when you walk on it. This is a view of the beach from the top of the chanel (which you'll see next photo). It's a lovely beach... This is me, sitting on the edge of the chanel. By the time we left that afternoon, the tide had come in (it was just out when we arrived). The channel of water you see there was about 2-3 feet lower in water when we arrived!! I don't know how deep it is at high or low tide, but at both times, there were teenagers and children jumping off the bridge behind me into the water. I was too chicken to do that myself! What you are looking at here are small fishing shacks. They have been set up at Basin Head beach, and each one has a picnic table inside. You can take shelter from the sun or rain and have a picnic in there! I called the "the picnic huts" because that is what they are. There is a little playground for children right near them as well. This was our view from the car (rather the roadside) as we left Basin Head Beach. It's a great depiction of the red sands in PEI! |
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This is Kristi-Anna at the wharf in Murray River. There are some older traps here in the photo, altho I am not sure that you can tell. The ones that are square are newer, and the round ones, which are near my feet, are somewhat older. A family friend is a retired lobster fisherman... so we get the inside scoop!
Lobster fishing is one of the main industries on Prince Edward Island. Along with that industry are other fish industries (shellfish as in the photo below, tuna fishing - I saw one when I was little, it's an amazing thing!). Farming is also a big industry on the Island. During our travels we saw many potato and tobacco farms as well as an abudance of hay and cows!
![]() ![]() This is Murray Harbour, home to the best hot fudge ice cream sundaes! It is one of the places I *must* visit while on PEI, for it was here that I was first introduced to this wonderful Island! Mike is down on the shore in this photo, collecting sand for me in a glass Pepsi bottle! I am going to use the bottles of sand in my herb garden(in the bottles) to display them :) As you will note, the dirt/sand here is red! That is one of the things that intruiges me most about PEI :) I'll tell you a story about the red roads of PEI. It's part of "Anne of Green Gables - the Musical" that plays every year at the Confederation Centre of the Performing Arts in Ch'twon PEI. Anne "::gasp:: Mr. Cuthbert, Mr. Cuthbert, your roads they're red!"
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A little more about Peake's Quay. It's a mini-boardwalk really. There are some neat shops along there. Some places had handmade quilts and other decorating delicacies for the home. There were postcards, t-shirts, food, a harbour cruise, pewter, candles, and the world's BEST ice-cream too! That's just a little bit about the tourist haven of Peake's Quay. Mike and I biked around there one evening, and spent some time (and lots of money!) there, relaxing and enjoying the view!
This is an advertisement for a restaurant two blocks from where my Aunt lived. Mike grabbed the guys legs and stuck his tongue out at me... *click* he didn't know I was ready!! We didn't eat there, but it sure smelled good every day when we walked by!
On our trip home, we stopped at the Magnetic Hill in Moncton, New Brunswick. It's an optical illusion that allows you to believe that you are going uphill while your car is in neutral! It's quite the phenomenon.
This is Kristi-Anna and her friend Katrina on the steps of Katrina's apartment. Mike and KA stopped to visit there on the way home staying for 2 nights. We visited the Jazz Festival in downtown Montreal, and did a little shoppin'!
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