PEI...The East Coast

Red clay is peculiar to PEI, just as it is to GA. Therefore, erosion is eating the shoreline back at an alarming rate.

This mansion was built by a Cincinnati businessman and now belongs to Parks Canada and functions as an Inn.

The lighthouse at East Point.

More red cliffs and windy seas. I'll post the rest later, as download speeds just dropped off big time here.

P.E.I.: Con't.

There are countless tiny harbors and villages in PEI, which has a central lobe where most of the folks live and two appendages stretching out to the west and to the east, like giant butterfly wings. These are large, but sparsley populated - one is the West Coast and the other the East Coast.

Needless to say, lobstering is BIG here and the really nice thing is, no crowds, unlike the more accessible state of Maine.

Numerous bays, all leading into the Gulf of St. Lawrence and eventually, the sea.

Today is Sunday, so the fleet's in. So is the catch, so another excellent seafood meal!

P.E.I. - The Gentle Island, give or take....

.....a hurricane or two (scroll down). Meanwhile, this certainly is well-named. I call this particular shot, 'Girls and their horses.'

This is one of the interior shots of the Green Gables House, once owned by cousins of L.M. Montgomery and the inspiration for Anne's Green Gables.

One does step back into yesteryear in this farmhouse here in Cavendish, PEI.

I included this one because of the stove, for my antique woodstove pals.

Green Gables. Note the odd pinkish grey sky? Stay tuned....

Ta-Da....Tropical Storm Danny comes ashore on the island around 7 PM. No hayride tonite, although the hayride driver at this KOA came up to the ride stand to make sure! We, meanwhile, are sitting it out in the Wee Hoose, listening to the rain pelt down and the wind rock us. But the family in the site next door with 3 little ones under 5 are in a tent, so if they can do it, we sure can!

St. Lawrence Sea Way

This is a little out of sync, as we drove up the Quebec coast the day before we went down through New Brunswick, but this was the beginning of the cold wind. It whipped the formerly blue water into a muddy froth.

The orange on the rocks is a lichen of some sort and the reddish rock is full of iron ore. And ships navigate this passageway??? We did see locks at Iroquois, QC, so we know they must.

New Brunswick - full of surprises!

Walking the dogs (well, Buddy anyway, carrying Daisy, who can walk but does so very hesitantly on leash since she can't see) in the sunset in New Brunswick.

Grand Falls catches you by surprise as you follow the signs, expecting a pull-off or overlook and then you drive over them on the bridge into town!

The temperature started falling when the wind rose up in northern Quebec and really plummeted by the time we reached NB.

Last spring, this river flooded so that the water was above the edge of the falls! Since there is a dam right above the falls, generating must have been a real picnic.

Wildflowers of KOA-Quebec /city

The light /cloud pattern was good for photos this morning, so while walking Buddy, I took these shots of the scrub around our campground, separating it from an industrial park and construction area. Who would have guessed?

Quebec City, Con't.....

Several murals on walls here, depicting events or conditions existing in the past that helped us understand Quebec's history. Very tromp d'oile, as well!

Inside this house was a soap/lotion shoppe in which the soaps were arranged to look like confectionary! I wanted to include a photo, but photography is forbidden in most shoppes that were so creative in design - understandable.

Not sure what these Christmas-in-August elves were up to but they were so enthusiastic, that I couldn't resist a shot. Neither could they resist mugging and posing. Lots of young folk in this city...lots of roller blading, cycling, walking, lots of hills, so young and old are in pretty good shape.

Riding the funicular reveals views of private gardens invisible from street level.

At least as steep as Lookout Mountain Incline in TN!