In Search of Lighthouses
 September 9, 2015

Explorers that we are, we spent an interesting day with two goals in mind—find as many lighthouses as we could and get to the Anne of Green Gables House in Cavendish. We succeeded in doing both, but not without some interesting experiences and entertainment.



Our GPS does not know the roads on this island—she only knows that there are roads where they are. We found ourselves many times on red dirt roads—not gravel—that I’m sure are mostly for tractor use, and they went on for miles. It reminded me of the cow paths through farmland that she took us over when we were in Switzerland.

We really had no understanding that this island was not very wide from north to south. We got from the south coast to the north in about 40 minutes! In trying to find the lighthouses, we kept going over the same roads, seeing the same churches and community centers in our search, and we only found about 4 of the 50 lighthouses they say are standing in PEI.

A village, found on the way to a lighthouse,

We also saw lobster traps piled high on a fishing skiff, indicating the end of lobster season. Many of the restaurants and the few hotels that are here are already closed and the retail businesses that are still open are running 50 percent off sales. Winter is coming and probably soon.


Today was a fun adventure and a good day of getting to know the western part of this province, and we are winding down and heading south to the states tomorrow.
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One other thing to mention is that during our entire time in Québec, New Brunswick, and PEI, we have only seen one other car with license plates from the U.S.—and that was a car from Pennsylvania today. We didn’t spend a lot of time looking for license plates, so I’m sure we missed some.