The Bottle Houses in Cap-Egmont were built by an elderly Mr. Arsenault in the last four years of his life. He received his inspiration from the bottle house in Duncan BC which is no longer standing. He built a chapel, a house and a tavern with thousands of bottles that he collected.
The Westpoint lighthouse was established in 1875. It is Canada's only Inn in a working lighthouse. Boardwalks are along the sand dunes in order to preserve them.
The north end of PEI has a number of wind farms which produce about 30% of the islands electricity. At the North Cape lighthouse(1866) is a wind generating research station of which the huge fuselage and the 43 meter blades were of particular interest to Wally. Having traveled tip to tip on PEI we received a personalized certificate for crossing the island.
Day 6 on the island, our last day ended with a huge rain storm. We toured the Acadian museum in Mistouche and the Potato museum in O'Leary and are ready to travel across Confederation Bridge in the morning on our way to Cape Breton Island. Our B&B hosts here for 6 days have been awesome, feeding us too good and giving us lots of touring tips.
2 comments:
Loved these posts, we love 'Anne', your posts are wonderful, so glad you are able share!
Heard about the storm and was wondering if it would hit you guys, heard there was going to lots of rain.
Love all these posts!! That bottle built place is pretty fancy!
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