Sunday, 2 September 2012

Officially on leave! Westward bound (up-west that is!)

Wow, what a feeling! Usually the long weekend is spent doing last minute prep work in our classrooms and getting everything organized for our upcoming year and for getting the boys ready for school. For the first time in 20 years, we went on holiday for the long weekend!!! Why? Because we are on a half year leave! Where you may ask? In our very own backyard! We discovered the North Cape Coastal Drive in glorious PEI. We spent the long weekend exploring meandering back roads that ended at quaint and busy fishing wharves, hiking trails, poking about backyard Art studios, discovering quiet beaches loitered by seals and inukshuks, witnessed Irish Moss harvesting and ate from cozy and local cafés...some of the greatest seafood.....and yes, seaweed pie.This weekend reminded me that we don't have to go far to discover treasures and find adventure.  Sometimes they are in our very own backyards. Smiles wide from these traveling Turners, big and small. It was a great family weekend.
                     ( All photos are curtesy of Charlie and Finn, the official Turner photographers)
The infamous bottle houses in Cap Egmont
 
Back yard Folk Art in Alma


 
 
 

Seaweed pie in Minimegash

Black Marsh Trail, North Cape

Crazy brothers in front of what's left of Elephant rock

Black Marsh trail with North Cape wind mills in the backgroud

Harvesting Irish Moss! (for the seaweed pie)

A community of Inukshuks off North Cape

The Potato Museum, best home fries in PEI
lobster traps in the dunes... only in PEI
last day of summer.... good times! 

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