We had a long day planned for Saturday! Joyce had identified a Geocaching Event taking place at a nearby diner and wanted to go. We often do this when we travel so that we can meet other geocachers! Well, it was a breakfast gathering at 9 AM. Now most of you will recognize that 9 AM is the approximate time we leave every morning….. Well, we were on our way about 8:30 and were still the last to arrive for the meeting of PEI geocachers! Had a nice breakfast, found a couple of trackable items and enjoyed good conversation about our favorite subject (well, after lighthouses…..). Enjoyed local egg sandwiches, coffee and tea. Gary even won one of the raffle drawings, but a new ammo box for caching was not a thing we needed in our inventory—we already have 3 at home! Declined the prize and it went to another local cacher who will make a new geocache for others to find.
We had a last minute change of plans for today based on the weather forecast. The area near where we are staying was predicting heavy rain and no sunshine. Not great for photography. The forecast for the East end of the island predicted less rain and fewer clouds. Away we went in search of the lighthouses and geocaches in that directions. And we were not disappointed because there were many intervals of blue sky and no rain! We drove 280 miles to cover this end of the island.
We did lighthouses and geocaches as follows:
- Prim Point Lighthouse 11 AM
- Geocache at 11:45 in an evergreen tree
- Wood Islands Lighthouse and Range Light (plus a geocache) 12:15 PM (3 photos)
- Cape Bear Lighthouse (smaller one) 1:00 PM (photo)
- Panmure Head Lighthouse 2:00 PM
- Panmure Head View LH with horses 2:15 PM
- Sorius Lighthouse 4:00 PM
- East Point Lighthouse 4:30 PM (photo)
- Shipwreck Point LH 5:45 PM
- Covehead Harbour Light 7:00 PM (photo)
After a long drive back from the east end of PEI, we decided to take the recommendation of our Airbnb host to have dinner at the Island Stone Pub in Kensington. Arrived there without a reservation at 8 PM (closing at 9). Asked the hostess if there was a table for two available. After checking we were shown a table and had a great waitperson To no one’s surprise, Gary had fish and chips. Joyce opted for the seafood roll (lobster and crab) without fries and committed to eating some of Gary’s!! Just had to have some of those PEI potatoes in one form or another.
Arrived back at our “lighthouse” at 9 PM and spent a bunch of time trying to create and send this blog without success! So, on to bed and worry about the blog tomorrow! Yep, with no internet and spotty cell service the blog is more difficult to compose and send. This time, it was getting the photos from the phone to the computer to the blog! So, it is late getting this blog post out!
Geocache very close to Wood Island Lighthouses
We were surprised to see road signs for Amish farms. The sign is different than in the US. Finally saw mowing by an Amish man and along the same road a farm with a regular buggy.
East Point Lighthouse was a popular place today
Cape Bear and must love the playground in the area
Wood Islands Lighthouse front side
Wood Islands has two lights for the price of one, a regular and range light
Covehead Harbour Light in PEIs only National Park seems to be an active light
A “working” breakfast, and more good lighthouses.