Stay Awhile Prince Edward Island
by Edward Fielding
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Prince Edward Island is one of my favorite places to visit. Perhaps it feels quaint and old fashioned these days – no big amusement parks on the scale of Disney World or Universal Studios.
No tall condo buildings and hotels like Miami Beach or Honolulu. Prince Edward Island has a feeling that you are stepping back in time thirty or forty years.
You can still find a red dirt road down to a private beach with your personal lighthouse and warm water reflected north by Cape Cod.
The Lighthouse map issued by the Prince Edward Island Lighthouse Society has 63 listed in total making it the highest concentration of lighthouses in any province or state in North America. 21 are already decommissioned, 13 are listed as private and only 3 not accessible by car. 9 are opened to the public.
You can find fancy resorts on the island with spa treatments, golf, and fine dining, but you can also find plenty of seasonal cottages on the edge of farmers fields with a BBQ and easy access to dockside seafood like lobster, mussels and famous Malpeque Oysters which at a Paris exhibition in 1900, Malpeques were judged as the world’s tastiest oyster.
Prince Edward Island is a photographer’s paradise with plenty of places to explore – red sandstone cliff, picturesque farmland, harbors, beaches, lighthouse, inland rivers, period homes and beautiful Northern light.
Prince Edward Island has long been a destination for families with kids with its beautiful beaches, fun spots like the Sand Spit amusement park and its relationship to the beloved book, Anne of Green Gables a 1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery (published as L.M. Montgomery).
Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-twentieth century. Today this book brings a lot of Japanese tourists to the island as the story has captured the imagination of that island nation.
Anne of Green Gables follows the adventures and misadventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-year-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the town.