The view from here 2

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Well, it's the last weekend of our vacation here in PEI. Alas.

Suffice to say that I'm not all that eager to return to Toronto.

Anyway, here are a couple of photos. The first is sunset from our beach -- the sunsets here are spectacular. The second is a view of Charlottetown, the province's capital, from Rocky Point -- you can just make out the skyline in the distance (it's a small city with not much of a skyline). Note the red soil, for which PEI is famous. It's caused by oxidized iron. The third is the view from East Point, looking north, at the very eastern tip of the province -- the ship in the distance is the car ferry from Souris, one of the larger towns in the eastern part of the province, to the Magdalen Islands, part of Quebec, further up in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Stay tuned. I might actually post a photo of myself later today. (Can you feel the excitement?)