Touring The Great North – Part 11 – More PEI

Our first night in PEI was really just getting settled in and finding a place to eat dinner. We explored the island the next day. PEI is a very pretty island. It’s mostly agricultural and because it’s an island, it is surrounded by water.

Fall is a big deal on the island. They like to make things very festive and really get into celebrating the season. I like this very creative hay bale art.

Our adventures today were mostly driving around the island, but with scenery like this I don’t mind one bit.

We went to the PEI lighthouse too at East Point.

Our hotel/cottage offered a very good breakfast, which we ate early and then headed out. So after touring around the island and taking in the sights, we were starting to get hungry. We ventured off the coast and more inland, since we weren’t finding a lot of coastal restaurants that were open.

We tried to go to the Beaconsfield House, but it was closed too. The town was hosting a scarecrow festival and everyone was definitely getting into the “spirit” of the season.

We had to make a necessary stop at the Visitors Center, so we strolled around through the shops and had some fun while we were there.

Larry and I had to take a picture of this sign, since we have 2 very lovable beggars at home. We were missing all of our fur babies. 🙂

More touring around the town. Everything was closed, but we got to at least see things from the outside. Once again, the church has a large influence on the area. This time, with most of PEI being of Scottish descent, the religious influences were more Anglican and Protestant than Catholic.

Another fun scarecrow creation.

PEI is a very pretty island. Everywhere we went, we felt like we were very welcomed by the small town warmth and graciousness.