Rocks, but not Hopewell yet

We did a couple side trips to PEI along the way. After all, the Confederation Bridge was less than an hour away and PEI is supposed to be pretty. Regardless of what people say, you cannot see PEI in one day, or even a couple days. Like most places on a map, it's bigger than it looks. There's lots of potato farms. Lots and lots. Parts of Charlottetown are pretty, but then some of it is just another city. I'm not feeling the love enough to go back and explore more.

The first day was Thunder Cove. We read that it was a nice beach and had one of the flower pot formation rocks. They call them that because the ocean has eroded the rock, leaving a column with vegetation still hanging on up top. Plus, since it's PEI it's red.

As an aside, the demanding mammal is still cranky that she has only one human servant these days.

1. There is no parking lot. Just a road leading to a beachfront community. Lots of no trespassing and no parking along it. As I was reading about it, they said to park on the road, and not on private property and don't block driveways because they will call a tow truck. I can imagine during the summer there's a long walk from where you park to where you get to the beach. More on this topic later.

2. We saw signs like this a lot. Rocks falling off the cliff face here, and other shorelines is an actual thing.

3. Quite aside from the rock attraction, the beach is quite lovely.

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5. There's a little sea cave. I couldn't resist.

6. Partly in the cave myself, using a high ISO to get the details. 

7. Me on top of the headland looking back at the beach.

8. Turned around and now looking at the rocks. Turns out part of the rock had fallen over in a wind storm a few years ago.

9. Somehow people have scrambled up there. No idea how.

10. If you go along a bit further, there's a dodgy bit of coastline, and then a nice beach. You can just see part of it at the far right of the photo. I didn't go there. But in a funny coincidence, while we were hiking to Walten Glen waterfalls in Fundy Trail Provincial Park, we walked with a man who owned the campground beside that beach. Linda chatted with him a bit as I was looking for photos along the way.

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14. I had fun exploring and looking for photos.

15. Of course I tried some long exposures, but the waves were small. I overheard one conversation about me doing this, wondering what I could possibly be taking a photo of. The people were nice about staying out of each other's photos, and taking photos of family groups.

16. This is a thing. People buy waterfront property and block access to the beach. However the beach itself is public, and they can't stop people from walking on it, if they can get at it. I found a bunch of beaches where there is no access except by boat. Sometimes it's a string of homes, and in a bunch of places it's a campground. This is one of the times I saw the beach end of the arrangement. I get that the local homeowners are tired of the traffic.

As a bonus, here's a similar structure in New Zealand, on Piha beach. There are steps to go up it, if you're brave.

Of the Day

Driftwood (NZ)

Film The last of the long exposure selfies. No idea about the light leaks. I think I was careless in taking the roll out of the camera.

Linda, carefully wading back from visiting the rocks shown above. When I first got there I had to scramble over a headland. The tide was going out so it was possible to walk back.

Newfoundland, with more rocks poking up from the ocean.

New Brunswick

One of the outtakes from Third Vault falls. It came THAT close to the podium.

Why ever didn't I publish this, and maybe I did

90 days, or so ago

Flower 

Landscape, A nice river scene on the hunt for covered bridges.

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