Our first stop was Greenwich National Park for a hike along the boardwalk trail. It was a 5km trail through forest, along a floating boardwalk through marshy areas, over amazing parabolic dunes, ending on a beautiful and secluded beach. I am pretty sure my pictures don't truly capture the beauty of the landscape.
We then went to the East Point Lighthouse where we earned our Tip-to-Tip certificate from visiting the two tips of PEI.
On our way to Souris for our Jigs & Reels tour, we made a quick stop by Basin Head Beach to hear the 'singing sands'. At first we thought it was a beautiful beach, albeit quite busy, but that they were lying about the singing sands. Not sure what exactly we were expecting, but after I put my feet in the water, we noticed my wet feet making 'music' in the dry sands. Danica thought they'd be more appropriately named the humming sands.
Then came one of the highlights of the trip - our Fiddling Fisherman tour in Souris. JJ Chiasson, the Fiddling Fisherman, works as a lobster fisherman during the fishing season, May and June. In the off-season, he turns his boat into a tourist boat. We first hauled in a lobster trap. Danica helped pull in the buoy that identifies the location of the trap. Can anyone tell the boy lobster from the girl? Then, Danica drove the boat around in circles before we dropped anchor and had a cailidh at sea. We learned how to play spoons and do a PEI two step. It was so much fun! Apparently JJ used to play in a Celtic Rock Band that played at Foggy Notions a few times back in the day.
We had planned to head to Point Prim to see the lighthouse and eat dinner at the Point Prim Chowder House, which is supposedly fantastic. I decided to check out the menu online though and realized that there was nothing either of us would eat if we didn't like the chowder. Instead, we decided to save ourselves the extra couple of hours in the car and drive back to Charlottetown via Buffaloland Park in Montague. It was strange seeing buffalo in the middle of PEI but the offroading in the driveway and the views of the Buffalo may not have been worth the effort.
On the way there, though, we discovered a food truck so we stopped for a snack and more photos.
In Charlottetown, we dined and shopped at Peake's Wharf, named after James Peake who built Beaconsfield house.
Initially we considered walking downtown Charlottetown tomorrow morning while completing this Eckhart the Mouse tour. Since we had ice cream to eat, we thought we'd start the tour tonight. We easily found the Eckhart statue at Founder's Hall and a sign announcing his whereabouts at Province House made that one easy to find. After trying and failing to find a few others, we called it a night. We managed to locate some of the historic sites and statues though. St. Dunstan's Basilica was beautiful. Danica read the letters of Confederation over the shoulders of the John Hamilton Gray's and had quite the animated chat with Sir John A. MacDonald as well. We also managed a stroll down Victoria Row and located the Merchant Man, a restaurant which used to be the offices for James Peake, the merchant man.
Charlottetown is a really pretty city. It has so much character and clearly a lot of history. Danica thinks we should move here for the summers but doesn't want to spend winters here. I guess I should check out some real estate guides...
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