A day in PEI - North Rustico Beach, The Dunes gardens

An overview of part of the Dunes gardens

More touring today. We (Cathie) wanted to get to a specialty yarn shop in Belfast PEI, so we took the long way round from our Summerside camp.  Mostly pictures today.

Along the way we stopped at a beach in North Rustico and got our feet wet:

A freshwater pond drains into the sea via the beach

The pond drain splits the beach up, but it's wadeable

A great day for a wade

Cathie admiring the neat wavelet patterns

 

With almost every visit to PEI we take the time to visit The Dunes Gallery. The articles they have for sale are high end and often quite artistic. Maybe it goes without saying, but we have never bought much here, much as we'd like to sometimes.
 

Their gardens are the main attraction though. Always beautiful, and amazingly free. Free admission, and free to wander around. Very few "don't touch" signs. You can even walk on the grass! This place should be on every PEI visitor's must-see list:

 

I think this is a crocodile, or a really large mean-looking dachshund

Goldfish can be seen in some of the water features

Kindly and Grumpy, 2-for-1

 

We don't usually take pictures inside the gift shop, but these may give you a flavour of some of the things you'll find there:

 

Here's a link to the Dunes web site: <link>

 

After the Dunes visit we needed some lunch, so off to the Misty Blue Waters Take-Out (Covehead) for an order of fish and chips to split:

The full order came with 2 large pieces of fish, this was my half. Excellent!

 

This modest takeout place is right next door to the more famous Richards. Richards gets much busier, has inside seating and a liquor license. We prefer Misty Blue.

And finally, yes we did get to Belfast 'Fleece and Harmony' yarn shop, where Cathie felt she had to buy something after all the "work" getting here:

A very full day. Tonight we're back in Pat and Nancy's driveway where we'll be for the weekend, likely not blogging.