We couldn’t wait to have scones and coffee/tea for breakfast at the Willow Bakery and Café again. This bakery is run out of what was previously a United Church and is also where the Ceilidh was last night.

It was now time to start finishing the east side of Prince Edward Island and we stopped in St. Peters Bay where we visited several craft shops and bought some chocolate. Ruth ventured behind the shops to capture the beauty of the St. Peters River.

Prince Edward Island had a train network for a number of years and one of the end stations was in Elmira where there is now a train museum with information about the construction and history of operations of this network. The tracks were originally narrow 42 inch gauge whereas the rest of Canada used a standard gauge of 56.5 inches. The railway construction costs nearly bankrupted Prince Edward Island and an offer from Canada to settle these debts was the reason the island became a Canadian province in 1873. Trains were ferried over from the mainland in ferry ships. The last train on Prince Edward Island ran in 1989.

The museum offers a 15 minute “train” ride through the forest for children and their families. We’re big kids, so why not?

At East Point we visited the lighthouse and were greeted by a fox, scratching and sunning himself despite all the tourists snapping pictures of him.

Now tired of lighthouses and craft shops, we drove to Panmure Island Provincial Park where we will be camping tonight after going for a splendid swim.