Acadian Catholic Church
I thought this was an amazing view with the cemetery right on the edge of the sea.
Cap-Egmont Bottle Houses
Inside wall in the chapel - the pews were made from colorful votive holders.
Outside chapel wall - chapel is made of approximately 10,000 bottles.
Six-Gabled HOUSE
This is the first building Edouard Arsenault built in 1980. Where did he get all the bottles? Back then, there was no recycling for glass, except pop and beer bottles - everything else went to the dump! So each week, Edouard took his old truck and gathered bottles from local dance halls, the legion, restaurants, and the dump! He was a recycler before his time.
Inside wall of gabled house.
In the middle of this wall is a brown gallon jug to give you an idea of size.
Garden sculpture
TAVERN
bottles on the bar...
Some of Edouard's favorite bottles are on display in the tavern.
This was a very familiar scene on P.E.I., almost all homes had wash drying on the line.
Lobster traps near North Cape. We went to the New Glasgow Lobster Supper, a tradition that began in church basements on P.E.I. and continues today. The informal meal began with clam chowder and all the mussels you could eat, rolls fresh from the oven and a variety of salads, lobster and then lemon meringue pie. Lemon meringue pie was served by most churches but now they have many dessert choices. Money for this lobster supper goes to the rural volunteer fire department of New Glasgow.
North Cape
Dusty Roads
An evening of Canadian folk music with Dusty Roads as the headliner with special guest fiddler, Mary Smith. The second half of the evening anyone who wanted to sing or play was invited to come on up and they were accompanied by the house band. This is a very traditional venue on Prince Edward Island.
Mary Smith
Lobster traps for sale along the roadside...
100 Kilometer Yard Sale
This was amazing, we'd never seen anything like it - all along this highway were spots like this where someone's trash could become your treasure.
Weekend 100K yard sale!
Souris Lighthouse
Cardigan Bay at Georgetown
Red dirt road, soybean crops on either side of the road leading down to the ocean. Prince Edward Island 's main crop is potatoes with a rotation of corn and soybeans.
Sun shining on the fields in central P.E.I.
Anne of Green Gables
Silver Bush - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, once wrote, "I love this old spot better than any place on earth." Silver Bush was owned by her Uncle John and Aunt Anne Campbell and she was later married in it's parlor.
Lake of Shining Waters - view from Silver Bush
Where the original Green Gables house stood. You can still walk Lover's Lane and the Haunted Wood.
French River
Lighthouse on New London Bay
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