In the many trips that I've had to PEI (particularly in the 1970s), I'd never been west of Summerside. On our first full day on the Island, we decided to visit Cape North. Here's a photo of the lighthouse and the field to the east of it has quite a few wind towers - I think that I counted 21 spread out over several kms. And they do get wind. The place was closed up when we arrived and a lot of the information about wind power was written up on boards outside. The best thing about visiting this part of the Island is that we finally got to see some sea mammals. The entire area had hundreds of grey seals and harbour seals. The "cape" is where the Gulf of St. Lawrence meets the Northumberland Strait and there's a stretch of land that is walkable at low tide. We didn't choose to do that walk, but we could see hundreds of seals in the shallow waters that surrounded the "peninsula". Here's a photo of the "walk" at mid-tide.
Dave managed to get back to the west and visited the Potato Museum in O'Leary but that is his story to tell. We chose to visit a provincial park for a beach walk and it was pleasant, but the mosquitoes were prevalent in the forest walk. We also drove past the Stompin' Tom Museum in Tignish. It's having a bit of a revival these days, too.
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