5 Nights in Canada’s Smallest Province

Jaime and I have spent the last six days on Prince Edward Island, an ocean-locked province famous for growing potatoes and hording Canada’s sandy beaches. We tracked an anti-clockwise course around the eastern coast, before cutting south to the capital, Charlottetown. As per usual, we camped in our Hubba Hubba, except for the one night we spoiled ourselves to a B&B in Mount Stewart, where coincidentally we could watch a crucial game of ice hockey, as well as take part in the village’s annual Bald Eagle Festival the next day.

The top of the lighthouse at East Point is a great place to watch gannets, scoters, eider and cormorants.

Great Cormorants are found around the world, but to see one in Canada you must visit the Atlantic coast. At East Point, we saw many flying close to the lighthouse as they made their way to the nearby breeding colony.

These Red Fox kits were denning underneath a wooden building. The mother kept her distance up the hill, but the kits didn’t mind us watching them chewing on grass and scratching themselves behind the ear as they basked in the late afternoon sun.

One of many sandy beaches on PEI. This particular beach is a strong reddish colour from the erosion of the nearby sandstone cliffs.

A wind farm on the northern shore. PEI is a very 'green' place.

Pigot's Trail in Mount Stewart. We spent a couple of hours exploring the wetland and talking with the locals at the Bald Eagle Festival.

New Birds:

119. Veery

120. Blackburnian Warbler

121. Chestnut-sided Warbler

122. Rose-breasted Grosbeak

123. Bobolink

124. Blue-headed Vireo

125. Chipping Sparrow

126. Common Yellowthroat

127. American Kestrel

128. Great Cormorant

129. Black Scoter

130. Blue-winged Teal

131. Ruddy Duck

132. Pied-billed Grebe

133. Bonaparte's Gull

New Mammals:

10. White-tailed Deer

11. Woodchuck

12. Harbour Porpoise

13. Harbour Seal