Prince Edward Island

Over the past few weeks I have been Quite a few places. New York, Ottawa, Niagara Falls, The C.N.E., and most recently, Prince Edward Island, to meet my Fathers side of my family. So, I think that I will start by showing some of the stuff that I did whilst in PEI and work my way back.

I didn't have a direct flight from Toronto to Charlottetown, I had a short stopover, both ways, in Halifax. the flight from Halifax to Charlottetown was about thirty five minutes and was taken on a "Turboprop".

 My first view of the red sand in the Maritimes, this is a river near Halifax that appears to be red from all the sand and sediment in it.

The "Tuboprop" This plane only had eighteen seats inside.

 The inside of the "Tuboprop". Thats the co-pilots shoulder in the white up front.

Before we took off from Halifax he came around the airplane to do a "check" and said that since there was no airline attendant, we should just come and tap him on the arm if we needed anything, leaving the plane at that moment was a serious consideration of mine hahaha.

 The lighthouse in Souris, The Town that my father ,two of my Aunts, and one of my uncles grew up in.

 The cliffside at "Basin Head Beach". One can clearly see the difference in the soil colour of the Island and the sand colour washed in from the water in this picture.

 "Basin Head" offers something that i had never seen before, a "Double Beach", at least that's what i was referring to it as, more accurately it has one beach and a sandbar in front of it. I'm not entirely sure if it was something that had to do with tides and we happened to arrive at just the right time to see this "Double Beach" effect, but nonetheless it was still pretty cool.

 The joining of three different bodies of water, at East Point (the most easterly area on the whole Island), The Northumberland Straight, The Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Atlantic Ocean.

 One of  very many Lighthouses on the Island, this Lighthouse at East Point, has an extra claim to fame. This Lighthouse was the last to be manned by an actual person on the Island With somebody operating it right into the eighties.

 Taken at North Cape.

 Baby Seagulls and some sort of Sandpiper

 Seals! all the little black "splotches", are actually seals!

Another Shot of the seals.

 An "Inukshuk" my Brother built while we were at North Cape

 The Altar at the "Bottlehouse" "Church". Made Entirely from mortar and used bottles, this house really represents and excellent front for Recycling.

 Just to prove that they were real bottles!

 The small lighthouse the man who single handedly built the bottlehouses, Lived in while he was constructing them

 Flying the "Acadian" flag. A large portion of the Island spoke French as their first language and most of them Identify as some of the original Acadian settlers.