The tang of the sea is in our blood...

L.M. Montgomery says it best...

"Prince Edward Island is really a beautiful Province–the most beautiful place in America, I believe. Elsewhere are more lavish landscapes and grander scenery; but for chaste, restful loveliness it is unsurpassed.

...the rich red of the winding roads, the brilliant emerald of the uplands and meadows, the glowing sapphire of the encircling sea...

'Compassed by the inviolate sea,' it floats on the waves of the blue gulf, a green seclusion and 'haunt of ancient peace'.

Much of the beauty of the Island is due to the vivid colour contrasts –the rich red of the winding roads, the brilliant emerald of the uplands and meadows, the glowing sapphire of the encircling sea.

It is the sea which makes Prince Edward Island in more senses than the geographical. You cannot get away from the sea down there. Save for a few places in the interior, it is ever visible somewhere, if only in a tiny blue gap between distant hills, or a turquoise gleam through the dark boughs of spruce fringing an estuary.

Great is our love for it; its tang gets into our blood: its siren call rings ever in our ears; and no matter where we wander in lands afar, the murmur of its waves ever summons us back in our dreams to the homeland.

For few things am I more thankful than for the fact that I was born and bred beside that blue St. Lawrence Gulf..."

from The Alpine Path
Photo credit - Rinda Dean