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A heavy wet snowfall today in Prince Edward Island covered the trees and shrubs on the Dunelands Trail in Prince Edward Island National Park. A beautiful site to see.
A bronze sculpture of an Acadian fisherman by Nathan Scott in North Rustico Harbour. The sculpture pays tribute to the town’s fishing heritage and Acadian roots.
St. Dunstan's Basilica is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and was designated a national historic site of Canada.
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Sunset behind Confederation Bridge, PEI.
Confederation Bridge joins the eastern Canadian provinces of Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick, making travel throughout the Maritimes easy and convenient. The curved, 12.9 kilometre (8 mile) long bridge is the longest in the world crossing ice-covered water, and continues to endure as one of Canada’s top engineering achievements of the 20th century.
After four years of construction using crews of more than five thousand local workers, the Confederation Bridge opened to traffic on May 31, 1997.
After you've crossed the Confederation Bridge (previous post) & landed in Prince Edward Island it's only a 30 minute drive to the other coast and Cavendish Beach. This is the home to "Anne of Green Gables" fame......The colours are not enhanced in this pic. The red sandstone & red soil of P.E.I. are signature marks.
The Confederation Bridge. It connects Prince Edward Island, Canada to the mainland over the Northumberland Strait in the southern part of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. At 12.9 kilometres or 8 miles long it is longest bridge in the world over ice-covered waters. It takes approximately 10 minutes to across. At the highest point, the bridge reaches 60 metres above sea level, which allows large sea vessels, including cruise ships, to navigate under the bridge between its piers.
Leaving Cavendish & heading ENE brings you to North Rustico, a lobster & fishing village. A supply of new, "Old Style" lobster traps probably for the tourist trade.
It was a beautiful foggy morning on this 19th day of January, 2025, so we loaded up the truck and headed up towards Cavendish on Prince Edward Island. There are some nice hills, farms and even ports on the way and I imagined that many of these might look awesome in the fog. I wasn't disappointed. This was taken where HIghway 6 (Cavendish Road) crosses the Hope River, site of the Raspberry Point Oyster operation. While everything was closed up for the winter, the scene was quite amazing. I love fog!
Photo taken with the Olympus OM-D E-M1 and M.Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro. This is not an AI generated image.
This image is included in a gallery "Colour" curated by stephen cole.
This interesting rock formation was taken in the Cavendish Cliffs area, just off the Terre Rouge Lane, not far from the Green Gables. It was a fine autumnal afteroon. The beauty of the striking red soil cliffs against the deep blue colour of the Southwest Basin water was simply too hard to do justice in photography.
Prince Edward Island is an island province of Canada. While it is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, it is the most densely populated. The island has several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", "Birthplace of Confederation" and "Cradle of Confederation". Its capital and largest city is Charlottetown. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces.
The geography of Prince Edward Island is mostly pastoral with red soil, white sand, and scattered communities. Known as the "Garden of the Gulf", the island is located in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence north of Nova Scotia and east of New Brunswick, with which it forms the Northumberland Strait.
The coastline of the island consists of a combination of long beaches, dunes, red sandstone cliffs, saltwater marshes and numerous bays and harbours. The beaches, dunes and sandstone cliffs consist of sedimentary rock and other material with a high iron concentration which oxidizes upon exposure to the air.
Taken at Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Each summer sculpters from over the island use the red sand found in abundance to form sculptures depicting life on the island.
Prince Edward Island
Well, my processing order has ended up all over the place as this is the last image I shot before leaving for home. But I really like this shot so it got priority treatment.
And when I say it was taken just before leaving for home, I found this spot at a little turn off area right before the bridge. The toll booth for the Confederation Bridge is pretty much right behind me.
It was interesting to look through my frames of this area. When I first set up, I guess the tide was a little higher as there were puddles around this clump of grass, which is what drew me to the composition in the first place. As I flip though the frame in Lightroom, I can see a little stop action flipbook of the water going down and some snails scrambling (can a snail scramble?) into the grass to await high tide.
As always, thanks for looking!
The Cape Bear Lighthouse was built in 1880. It was photographed on Thursday, August 26th, 2004 and 10 years later it was moved 100 feet away from the eroding cliff and another 400 feet again in 2015 where it is preserved.
A new light on a metal tower was installed in 2011 and is now designated as Cape Bear light.