Prince Edward Island

We have had very poor internet connections for the past week and so I am very far behind in posting.
We spent 4 days in PEI and we spent 2 nights with my cousin in New Glasgow. We are on our way to Coldbrook, Nova scotia.
Following is my summary of our visit to PEI

My Impressions of Prince Edward Island,

This was my first visit to Prince Edward Island even though I had lived in the neighbouring province for decades.

I knew it had red soil but I don’t think I realized just how intense the colour was.. It is such a striking contrast with the green of the plants.

I wonder who decided it was an ideal place to grow potatoes? There are acres and acres and acres of potatoes. Some are blooming pink, some are blooming with white blossoms and some have not yet bloomed. The perfectly straight rows the uniform hills and the contrasting red soil is a sight to behold.

I was expecting it to be very flat but it has a lot of rolling hills. I thought it would be more like the prairies but it is not. There are lots of lakes and hills. The farms are spread out and the commercial centers are quite spread out, so you spend a lot of time driving along the countryside.

The countryside is dotted with lovely little white churches. There was one we passed that had a new red roof. It is a bright red roof and the first thought that came to mind was the song, Church in the Wildwood but instead it was “ Come to the church with the red roof, “

The houses are modest for the most part, very few Mic Mansions. I would guess that most of the people are middle class. Several of the houses have very very steep roofs which makes me believe that they must get a lot of snow.

Their pride of ownership is very evident. The properties are so very well kept, everything just perfect. The lawns are often mowed right out to the road side.

A lot of the farms fly Canadian flags and Prince Edward Island flags but the banner craze does not seem to have caught on.

Ken complained that the roads are patched over and over again. He says it has to be the road patch capital of the country.

But in spite of that their tourism is very well developed with lots of brochures and promotions. One promotion was called Tip to Tip and if you went from one end of the island to the other you could get a ribbon at the first tip and then you get a wonderful certificate when you get to the other tip.

We took advantage of their literature on lighthouses to locate 20 of them.

We visited Green Gables and toured around the downtown as well. On Ken’s birthday we enjoyed a lobster dinner and we spent time on the beach.

Even though the island is relatively small we burned 2 full tanks of fuel and put on about a thousand kilometers.

We did it up fine and enjoyed our time on the smallest province in Canada.