Last Day on PEI

We started our last day on PEI off at an Anne of Green Gables museum. This is the house that Lucy Maud called Silver Bush as in Pat of Silver Bush. She was also married in this house.
Inside was the cabinet where Lucy Maud had her glass friends, you'll remember Katie Maurice from the Anne stories. She was on the left side. Outside, we enjoyed Matthew's carriage ride around the grounds with stunning views of the "Lake of Shining Waters". I love the quote below about how LM hated to admit Anne was not real. I also love the story about her mother, who died when she was an infant. She must have been lovely.

Next we went to LM's birthplace. She lived here with her aunt and uncle after her mother died. It also served as the post office for the area. Because she had access to the mail before anyone else saw it, she was willing to send out her stories to publishers, knowing she could hide the rejections and no one would know. We also learned here that she was secretly engaged for five years before being married. Her aunt was sick and LM took care of her and wouldn't leave her.

Afterwards we headed to a town called Greenwich, where there are sand dunes. I was picturing a little more sand, but still beautiful. People are not allowed to walk on the dunes, because of how fragile the roots of the plants are, being in sand and all. Anyway, there is a board walk leading out to the beach. It was an evironmentally friendly site. They also had windmills for power and a special bathroom system that didn't use water. Yikes.






Next we headed to the east coast of the island to a beach called Basin Head, recommended by the owner of the B&B we stayed at for its squeaky white beaches. I couldn't exactly hear the squeakiness, but we were able to enjoy the sun for a couple of hours before the clouds rolled in. There was a bridge inbetween the docks that kids jumped off of. None of us did, though. I think that I'll keep my cliff diving to exotic places like the cenote in Mexico.

And... just to take full advantage of our last full day, that night we got Pizza Delight for dinner and had a little picnic at another lighthouse. Below the lighthouse, we ducked under a fence to a little hike down to a clearing of rocks. It was so peaceful to sit and listen to the ocean during that magical twilight time.