We headed up to the north shore today to visit the PEI National Park beaches. We had a lazy morning before heading out, here is Claudia relaxing on the deck.

We started at Stanhope Beach.

It was pretty empty.

The girls playing monkey in the middle.

Claudia mermaid.

It was windy and the fine sand on the beach was blowing around. We packed up after a couple of hours and headed to another beach. We stopped at the Covehead Harbour Lighthouse. It was built in 1975 and was never manned. It is also one of the smallest lighthouses on the island.

Not drifting snow, but drifting sand.

After the lighthouse we headed to Brackley Beach, however it was even windier there and we didn’t last very long with the blowing sand.

Tonight’s dinner was at the Fisherman’s Wharf in North Rustico. It is an all you can eat salad bar, which includes seafood chowder and steamed mussels.

We all ordered the lobster add-on to the meal. The seafood chowder was very good and I ate probably a few pounds of mussels.

We needed to walk around a bit after dinner so we went out to the North Rustico Harbour lighthouse.

It was built in 1876 and was electrified in 1960. It is one of the few lighthouses that didn’t have the dwelling removed when it was de-staffed.

Some of the sights around the harbour.

We started back for the cottage via Cavendish. We stopped at Orby Head. There were lots of Great Cormorants (Phalacrocorax carbo) in trees and flying around.

I was able to get some close up shots with my telephoto lens.

This is close up of Orby Head, a trade off when using a telephoto lens. There were a few idiots hitting golf balls into the ocean from the top of the cliff. Have they not seen Seinfeld?

It started to rain as we left Cavendish, it was quite the lightening show as we drove back, just after we got into the cottage, it poured down rain. Most of the rain has occurred in the evening, overnight or early morning.