PEI BEACHES 39, 40, 41

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More PEI Provincial Park beaches.

Discovery: not all Provincial Parks are equal.

Word of the day: Mosquitoes

Pinette Provincial Park and Beach

What a disappointment.

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The saving grace was what we saw just before the park. We were quite taken with this.

First of all, when you enter the park there’s no sign to tell you how to get to the beach. We entered and drove to the end of the entrance road where we found no designated parking-just a circular road.

And

we couldn’t find a way to get to the beach.

The washrooms were here but when I opened the ladies door the floor was covered with ants. 😮 I screamed and immediately closed the door. Richard had been in the men’s and said there were no ants there. Well he was right. There were no ants, but pretty disgusting washrooms.

As we were driving out of the park we saw, across the big playground, stairs to the beach. I guess you’re supposed to know this, park beside the road, and walk through the playground to the beach. Weird.

As you can see it’s not what I would consider a great beach.

Here:

* no designated parking

* primitive washrooms

* unsupervised beach

* playground

* picnic tables

For me, this was the best part. I saw several of these beauties.

This one was munching on parts of a huge mushroom.

Wood Islands Provincial Park and Beach

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Here we found a huge park area but the beach wasn’t the greatest. There were little buildings to create a miniature fishing shanty village for visitors to explore plus an enormous green space to enjoy. A wonderful aspect here is its location. It’s right beside the Wood Islands Ferry terminal so if you time your visit correctly you can see a ferry arriving or leaving.

For lots of you I’m sure that would be very interesting, but having been born on PEI and travelled on the ferries more times than I can count, it doesn’t hold the same mystique. I spent most of my ferry rides leaning over the side trying not to throw up. 🤭 Pleasant right?

Here:

* grass parking

* washrooms

* unsupervised beach

* lighthouse

* swings

* small buildings

* picnic tables

Here’s some fun pictures.

Northumberland Provincial Park Beach

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This was a lovely park/beach plus there’s a campground here too.

Here:

* lots of paved parking

* washrooms

* supervised beach

* metal stairs to the beach

* picnic tables

* playground

* campground

So today I showed you three PEI Provincial Park beaches we recently visited. You can see they are not all kept to the same standard.

I’m sure someone out there knows why.

But not me.

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With retirement comes the opportunity for new experiences. Debi has a passion for music, singing, theatre, and travel. With her BMEd and MEd she had an extensive career which included elementary music education, performing, vocal instruction, choral conducting, musical theatre directing, and clinician work. She has, for the most part, retired from this very successful music career. But really, does one ever retire from music? I think not. So now the stage is set for the next act: interweaving her love for music, travel, and whatever else comes her way. Wherever her travels take her Debi shares her exploits: musical adventures, local interests, historical sites, local cuisine, the journey there and back, plus whatever life sends her. She'll share the hits and the misses, the successes and the failures, as well as any helpful hints she discovers along the way.

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