We wanted to do this part of the North Cape Coastal Drive when the low tide at North Cape (the most northerly area in PEI) so we could walk on the reef where the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Northumberland Strait meet. Low tide at North Cape was 12:02pm today and the weather promised sunny skies, so we set the alarm for 6am 😨 and were on the road by 7:45am!
We first stopped for breakfast at the Alberton Bakery where we enjoyed a great breakfast!
The bakery must be an old house, as the kitchen was an original kitchen and the woman cooking our eggs to order was using a stove and pans to cook the eggs.
Pretty much breakfast was eggs with bacon ~ and apparently one has to get three slices of bacon! 😂
Brad also ordered his favorite breakfast treat ~ a cinnamon roll. Before Suzanne could take a photo, he attacked it! 😏
It was a great breakfast and with full bellies, we continued onward!
Onward was the (underwhelming) North Cape Wind Energy Interpretive Centre...
However it is an interesting area as it is the northwesternmost tip of PEI......
......and is where the longest natural rock reef in north America is found (extending nearly 2 km)....
So we walked along the reef at low tide ~ meh.
There was a lighthouse, of course....and a giant cell tower! 😂
We walked the area a bit, which also is home to many wind turbines (which fascinated Brad)....
...some lobster boats.....
...and seals......
We then turned south and stopped at Skinner's Pond Beach to walk the beach for a while.......
...eventually making it back to the Airbnb about eight hours after we left.
So we are glad that we explored this part of PEI, however we do not ever need to go back. 😎
