Monday, July 8, 2013

July 8 – North Cape

As there is no internet at the campground I wanted to activate our USB internet stick. I spent the morning fighting with Bell trying to do this, without success so far. I will tell the whole story once it is over. There is a resort next to the campground that has an open WIFI network so we sat in the parking lot and used it to post these entries.


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We did a looping drive up to the actual north cape of PEI, with a lot of stops on the way.

First up was Northport, which is off on a peninsula. The guide book said there was a view of a lighthouse. It was pretty far off.

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We continues to the end of the road and Jennie got her first look, in a long while, at the red dirt.

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Moving on we passed this long bright yellow field of something. I don’t think they are potatoes.

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Next stop was Tignish Shore for another lighthouse, although this one was decommissioned and moved here for display.

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It is sometimes open to climb but today the door was locked, although the windows were all open.

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We had lunch and then walked up the beach a little.

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Next was Jude’s Point where there was supposed to be a nice harbour and a fish market. There was only shellfish at the market. We wanted some fresh fish. There were some cans of pacific salmon and frozen Highliner fillets. We passed.

A lot of the boats were out of the water.

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Next stop was the North Cape at the tip of the island. Of course there is a lighthouse.

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There is also a large number of wind turbines.

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And some nice headlands to scramble around.

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There is a natural rock reef that extends out almost 2 km from the point. At low tide, which unfortunately was not now, you could walk out about a kilometer. You can see a bit of it poking out above the people in the picture below.

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We walked around below the cliffs until it became clear that we would have to go back a fair way to get back up.

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So we walked along the top for a while.

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Some flowers in the fields and gardens of the visitor’s center

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Moving on, we did see a nice little harbour.

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Jennie loved all the daisies.

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We wondered if the lobster season was over because we saw a lot of houses with buoys out being worked on.

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and a lot with their boats up on blocks in the yard.

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Our final stop was Skinner’s Pond to pay our respects.

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and check out the beach.

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It looked like an older walkway got buried.

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And home we go.

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I wonder how long it will take until we are sick of red sand. It is already all over the floor mats in the car.

1 comment:

  1. Beautiful! You're in chef Michael Smith territory now. Check out his website:

    http://peiflavours.ca/index.php/channel/

    Enjoy!

    Mike

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