Hi everyone. Happy Friday. Today I'm sharing some more random photos that I took while in Prince Edward Island back in September. I'll be joining Nicole for Friday Face Off and Gillena for Friday Lunch Break .
I thought today, for those of you who aren't familiar with the island, I'd start with a little basic tourist geography.
As some of you already know, Prince Edward Island is not a huge island. It is Canada's smallest province, and you could easily drive from one end to the other in a day. But why would you want to? 🯄🯄🯄
This tourist map of PEI is divided into areas to help guide you around the island.
If you aren't familiar with or would like an explanation of these areas, let me take a few paragraphs and explain before I get to my photos. It will all make sense (I HOPE) once you get to the photos.
When we first arrived on PEI we stayed in the orange-reddish area 2 for a few nights in the town of Baddeck. This is known as the Red Sands Shore area. You might remember the little cabin and the sunset/sunrise photos I shared a few weeks back. (If you're trying to refresh your memory or see for the first time what I'm mentioning, you can look here if interested: Sunrise, Sunset Part 1, and Sunset Part 2).
From our base in Baddeck we were about an hour's drive to the provincial capital city of Charlottetown which we didn't explore except for finding the Subaru dealership to fix my husband's car noises and to rent a car for a few days while his car was in the shop. Charlottetown is located right at the confluence of parts 2,3, and 4, on the bottom right of the map where there is a large bay. At our cabin in Baddeck we were also about 20 minutes from Summerside, which is the city just over the line into the purple, part 1 area of the map. This purple area is known as the North Cape Coastal area.
While we stayed in the Red Sands Shore area, we took a drive in the North Cape Coastal area. Photos are still to come. We also went up into area 3, which is known as the Green Gables area mainly because that's where Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote and set many of the Anne of Green Gables books. More about that is coming too. For our last couple of days and nights we stayed in the light orange area 4 on the right of the map. This area is better known as the Points East Coastal region. I have already shared photos from our day in the Greenwich area (part of the Points East Coastal Area) when we went walking here: A Beautiful Day to Go Walking.
Each of these tourist areas have a symbol for easy identification, and this above photo is the symbol for the Points East Coastal area (4). If you see one of these while out driving there might be a pull off or something else you may choose to stop at.
These next few photos are some random photos I took while visiting this part of the island.
It was also mushroom season. When we stayed at our second cabin outside of Georgetown (Points East Coastal 4), I had fun taking photos of the ones that were on the lawn. I took these photos when I was out with the dogs in the morning.
This next photo is the same grassy area around our cabin where the mushrooms were. This photo was taken as the sun came up. You can see it was chilly that morning by the light frost on the ground.
Here's that little cabin we stayed in our last 2 nights on the island. It was cute, had loads of room, but was not right on the ocean like the first cabin was. It was in more of a cabin colony, and it had a playground and pool, although by late September the pool was closed.
Another thing I noticed while driving around the island was that at many harbors you would have these rows of little mini-barns. In some harbors they were painted bright colors and some were even little shops. I'm not sure what they were used for in this particular harbor, but these harbor buildings were something unique from my travels.
And moving on, here's a few other views from elsewhere on the island. I spied this osprey nest somewhere in our travels on PEI.
These next few photos are outside of Cavendish in the Green Gables area (area 3). I failed to get the name of the town, but they had a beautiful little harbor.
The Great Blue Herons thought it was a great harbor too. There were at least 4 of them fishing when we went out for a little stroll.
While in that little town we also stopped for an ice cream. PEI is like New Hampshire in that there are ice cream places in just about every town. Here's another face for Friday Face Off.
I had a flavor called Tiger Tail which was new for me. It was orange ice cream with licorice. ❤
Here's the tourist symbols for the Red Sands Area (2) and the Green Gables area (3).
We also saw lots of aquaculture going on. I think these might be used for growing mussels.
I was also very excited to come across this placard at a pull off. Although I missed the footprints, I loved that this had to do with dinosaurs and fossils. Nor did I expect this either.
When in a place full of red dirt roads, you get a dirty car.
One day in our travels we stopped for lunch in Summerside down by the water. The restaurant had a great closed-in deck next to the beach so we could sit (more or less) outside to enjoy the sunshine and the water. Next to the restaurant there were a couple of these oversized mackerel sculptures. Here's one more face for you.
I still have more photos from Prince Edward Island to share, and I haven't even started those I took in Nova Scotia, except for the art museum.
I'm off tomorrow on my girl's trip, and except for a scheduled challenge post on Tuesday, I'll be off-line for the next few days. I don't suspect I'll have a lot of time to comment, and I'll only have my phone to do that anyhow.
So...have a super weekend and start to next week too. I'll be back with a post next Friday.
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