No mountains... lotsa water!

PEOPLE have asked me what i would miss about living in western Canada

"That's easy" I said, "the Rockies.... and my daughters!"

If you've ever lived near a substantial mountain range, like the Rockies or the Dolomites or the Alps or the Andes... you know what I am talking about.

How can you not be in awe of such a spectacle!

THERE are no mountains on Prince Edward Island.  In fact the highest point is under 500'  That's five hundred feet if you didn't get that.

Let me put that into perspective...

I've stood on a bridge at Lee's Ferry... five hundred feet above the Colorado river.

I'VE had my hands on the controls of an ultralight aircraft at five hundred feet.

Five hundred feet is not much longer than a football field.

Of course this is an Island and much of it is well below five hundred feet in height.

IF you want "mountains" you go to Quebec or Cape Breton highlands or south to the Appalachians.  Even these are no rivals for the Rockies.

Nope, what we got here my friends is water!

Not just water, but Atlantic Ocean water.

From here you can get to Newfoundland, Iceland, Bermuda...

YOU can get to Jolly Old England, or France or Italy.  You can get to Venice, or North Africa or Turkey.

From here you can get to the Bahama's, Cuba or Argentina.  In fact from here you can get to Japan, Indonesia, or Australia.

You can even get to the North pole from here.







YOU can even get to the Isle de Madeline...

There may not be mountains but there is ocean.  Lots of it, as in three fourths of the globes surface, Ocean.








PEI, being an Island, is surrounded by the stuff.  It may not be the wealthiest of Provinces, nor the largest, nor even the prettiest... but it sure is 'lovely' as Brenda says.






THIS past weekend, we took a driving trip, one of my favorite things to do here, did a little sightseeing, from our home in Spring Valley all the way to Souris*.  Got there just in time to see the car ferry come and go, while sitting at the restaurant overlooking the port.

We covered over 400km, a long day's drive on PEI.  Almost no one about except for local traffic.

It's true... she is a lovely little Island.

* Pronounced Sooo ree.