It was an interesting holiday. We chose PEI because our
son-in-law was to attend a conference in Charlottetown and we all wanted to
spend some vacation time together as a family. That is indeed what happened.
For the first week we rented two cabins in a resort near
Cavendish Beach. The tourist season
hadn’t yet started and so it was fairly quiet and definitely still cool. When
we stood on the beach I had a feeling that we were quite close to the North
Pole! We had no inclination to swim and usually wore our jackets down to the sand.
Our granddaughter loved it all, running constantly and filling her little red
pail with rocks, sand, or seawater. She was the only one to dip her feet in the
icy waves. I heard a local say that June was the month that jellyfish were
around and that was the reason that nobody was swimming. You could have fooled
me. I’m quite sure that the temperature of the ocean had much more to do with
it.
So, for that first week when we played on the beach, or went
to the playground, or drank coffee, or ate tons of seafood. I rarely used my
cane. There was no need. It was a wonderful sense of freedom.
For seafood lovers I highly recommend the New Glasgow experience
with its all you can eat meal of chowder, salad, mussels, lobster and pie. We also ate at the restaurant at the Jam and Preserve
place where I had very good seafood chowder and excellent pie. On another
occasion, our son-in-law went to a local fish market and with his purchases
cooked up an amazing seafood platter. Andrew fits very well into our family. He
likes to cook and we like to eat!
For the second week, we moved to Charlottetown where the
conference was to be held. For this week I used my cane constantly. There were
many walking hazards – parking meters, light posts, advertising bulletin boards,
chairs and tables for the many coffee shops and restaurants, other pedestrians,
the usual fire hydrants and uneven sidewalks with dips and bumps. I suppose
that the good thing about the city is that it is small enough that a person can
walk pretty well anywhere.
For this week, the tourist season had begun and the little
souvenir shops were all open. There were lots of places to eat, drink and be
merry. We ate at the Water Prince Corner Shop. I think that it was one of my
best seafood meals. We did need a reservation. The restaurant is small but does
a thriving business and after eating there I can well understand why.
So, that was our June holiday on Prince Edward Island. I
have included a couple of pictures with this post. The first is of me standing
beside a large lobster sculpture down by the harbour. We walked down to the
harbour each day of our stay in the city.
The second picture shows me standing behind a cut out board
of a bagpipe player. It was my disappointment of our time on PEI that I didn’t
once here the bagpipes played. I have always enjoyed bagpipe music.
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| Sue with big lobster |
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| Sue the bagpiper |
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