Beach Walk to East Point Lighthouse - 10 km

This day we walked 10 km along the beach from North Lake to East Point Lighthouse, which is the easternmost point of Prince Edward Island.

Setting off from North Lake

It was a lovely day for a beach walk.

There weren't a lot of seashells to be found.  We were told to look for beach glass and I found two small pieces but really they just looked like shards of glass with slightly rounded edges.  Judging by all the beach glass jewelry/art in the gift shops I guess the locals have beachcombed all the good stuff.

We only saw two people on the beach during our walk.

The sand beaches gave way to slabs of sandstone

Eroding away to show attractive layers.

We came to a rocky exposed point

Where all the scraps that the fishermen threw off their boats washed up to shore.  We saw tuna tails and skeletons, crab and lobster parts.

Including this truly giant lobster claw

Around the corner of the head it turned to beach again where we saw a flock of migrating Canada geese.

Spot the lighthouse in the distance

Just as we were figuring out where to get off the beach before the lighthouse we ran into Helene, a local Island Trail booster and bird photographer.  She asked us if we were walking the trail and told us where to go.  She told us not to follow the trail guide directions as that involved skirting around a fence on the edge of an eroding cliff.  (I checked later, there was about a foot from the edge).  We wound up walking along the edge of a potato field until we came out at the East Point Lighthouse which was quite the tourist attraction after walking hours alone on the beach.

There were even tour busses.

East Point is supposedly a birding hotspot because two tides collide here.  I spotted the collision but there really hardly any birds around on this day. 

Dave from the motel came and brought us back to North Lake.

On our last evening in North Lake we went for an evening walk and came upon another fox.

 This one too was game for a photo opportunity.  Too game for me, he came right up to me. I had visions of calling the ambulance again, this time for a rabies shot.