What a nice little visit. We were the only two on the grounds at the moment and it was peaceful…read moresitting out in the garden areas. Cute little gift shop with nice items, not souvenir junk. The woman who was running the gift shop when we were there was informative and answered some other questions we had about earlier settlers of the island. The houses made from bottles are really neat and you try to put yourself into the shoes of the person who built them, noting that just one of the bottle buildings used 8000 bottles to build. They are cute and you can walk thru them. One is a little church and one had a bar inside also made from bottles. A truly unique experience.

Our host near Granville recommended this for a visit and worth the trip. Interesting history and…read morefun side trip for the day. The gardens are amazingly beautiful. Great place to bring a picnic lunch!!

Drive out to Point Prim for a visit to the majestic lighthouse!…read more If you're staying in Charlottetown it's only about a 45 minute drive. The lighthouse sits prominently awaiting visitors from afar. The location is beautiful for incredible views. For a small fee, you can climb the steep winding staircase to the top. Just warning you that it is really steep and may not be safe for some. Once you get to the top you can experience the beauty surrounding the area. A visitor like me from a desert area really appreciates the sites along the shore. It was definitely worth the short drive!

A really well maintained lighthouse. It is apparently the first and oldest in PEI. It was operating…read morewhen we got there keeping the ships away. It was in a nice space with grass surrounding it, which was great because it's been raining all day and we would have been in all the mud otherwise. It's a nice setting and if it were dry there is a red beach you could walk along surrounding the lighthouse. It's about 45 minutes outside of Charlotte town with a lot of nice farmland and quiet scenery. We came to it after going to visit the lighthouse in Murray Harbour which was being renovated when we got there. It was up high and had a view of great red cliffs.

Beautiful spot. Amazing history. Really would recommend this place to understand more of Canadian…read morehistory and the struggling of the Acadian people.

What a spectacular historic site. There's a museum that depicts life at an Acadian settlement…read morefrom 1682 to 1755 and the Deportation of the Acadians, which began in 1755 and continued until 1762. After watching a film about their history, including how they turned brackish moors into the fertile ground of Annapolis Valley today. You can walk around the ground that features a typical homestead garden and you can walk through the fields to discover the earliest dikes that trapped rain water and kept salty sea water from covering the land. A fascinating visit. Even if you choose to visit off season (the museum itself is only open May through October) the grounds are accessible all year round. It's a lovely place to hike.

We stopped at the Confederation Bridge Marketing office in Charlottetown to purchase a gift card…read more($41.50 CAD in 2008) for our return trip back to New Brunswick over the Confederation Bridge crossing in Borden-Carleton. The toll is $42.50 CAD in 2009. We wanted to speed up our trip for later in the day with a gift card, just in case there were lines at the bridge toll plaza.

After seeing a documentary about how those columns where engineered like cones to crack to constant…read moreflow of ice slabs in the river. $42bucks for a bridge, worth it if your going to Prince Edward Island [amazing by itself], amazing feeling stretching for 8 miles, connecting another slice of land to the world.

This place had so many cute local made gifts and also we got a super yummy seasonal coffee!…read moreDefinitely recommend stopping here. We ended up getting food somewhere else but some of their food looked delicious!

This museum is sorely in need of a technological update. Opened in 2001, it contains a walkthrough…read moretour of Canada's history of confederation. While the information is interesting, the tour is run with earphones that contain a radio receiver. Each stop is transmitted continuously in one direction. This means that if you are not standing in the correct spot, or turn your head away from the display, you get earfulls of static. The headset is also heavy and uncomfortable because of the receiver. Additionally, many of the touch-screen displays aren't functioning. Finally, the tour theme is a journalist's view of confederation there had been journalists that were crosses between a tongue-in-cheek CBC reporter and the Royal Canadian Air Force. It was just too light an atmosphere for these important events. I've been to many museums, both in Canada and abroad. With digital techonology, they can now set tracks at each station, and have tourists dial in their stop number in a digital player, rather than continuously running on radio-waves. This would prevent having to listen to the back-half of an event, wait for it to restart, and then listen to the front-half. On the bright side, it's an informative (if superficial) tour of Canada's confederation years.

Our first stop in New Brunswick was Cape Enrage along the Bay of Fundy, one of the Marine Wonders…read moreof the World with tides riding 53 feet over a 12-hour period twice a day. Cape Enrage offers views of this tidal phenomenon from its cliffs. We headed down to the view the lower area that is only accessible at certain times. There were plenty of little tide pools with snails and other small sea life. You could see the seaweed on the rocks where the water would eventually cover.

My husband and I loved this beach. The rocks are all worn smooth. I wish there was a bench to sit…read moreon to enjoy the view. I am recovering from a leg injury and couldn't walk on the rocks but had to sit in the car and look on as my husband explored the beach. Beautiful views to take in though. Definitely a must see!!

This place is kinda neat, odd and out of nowhere... I saw…read morethe signs for this place and thought what the heck... This is a very small, unmanned day park. It has a dirt drive with a "pull on the grass" parking area and picnic spot. And you can't miss the BIG wire fence. You follow this big fence and it brings you to a look out where you can see the buffalo. Granted the day I was there it was hotter than hell, at first I didn't see anything... then I saw three big things move. Low and behold with a zoom lens I got a pic of the three buffalo. According to the website there are 25, I'm guessing 22 were hiding in the shade... So I was pleased, saw a few buffalo off in a distance and got a pic... Nice little picnic area. There is a burn pit... Obviously use common sense with it on such hot dry days like the day I was there... Neat place, no staff, facilities... I guessing the people who oversee the buffalo probably see to the public access park. Oh and admission is FREE (Queen of cheap finds another one)