9/12/23 PEI

Day Two at Sirens Beach Motel:

We take advantage of the pleasant (not raining) weather to do some beach combing just a few steps from our cottage.

After hosing the sand off our feet, we jump in the car to go down the road to take in the Railway Museum.
The last train pulled into the Elmira train station in 1972 - having run throughout the island since 1912, connecting residents of the towns and villages and scheduling trains to the ferry to the mainland.

That evening we drive to Rachel and Sally's lovely home in a suburb of Charlottetown for a much anticipated lobster dinner and a good old fashioned catch up on news from home and our previous jobs in education.

The Dulce and Kelp that wash up with the tide look like shredded paper

The Kelp attaches and grows on the sandstone rocks

The evidence of extreme erosion from Hurricane Fiona is everywhere 

This beautiful home is dangerously close to the cliff now

Elmira station house - now silent and only open for tours after the last train pulled in an stopped in 1972

Creepy ticked collector greets you when you enter the station waiting room

The clerk is just as scary

Pictoral map of the dozens of stations across the island

The attention to detail on this steamer trunk is amazing

In the model railroad building, this display of train cars would make any collector envious

The model railroad layout matches the shape, towns and buildings that once connected everyone

A video depicts the last train coming into the Elmira station in 1972

The Sirens Beach Motel is situated on the point named "North Lake". Coincidently the first point of land that Jacques Cartier saw in 1534!

Beautiful shrub rose and bee at work

On our way to Rachel and Sallys house for dinner, we stop for a Cortado (Of course we did!) at yet another wonderful cafe, Black and White, in St. Peters Bay

Sally and Rachels house

Their beautiful ( but shy cat, Oliver )

We enjoyed Cortados after dinner with our travelling espresso set up!