Northumberland Provincial Park - Woods Island, PEI

On Tuesday, July 17^th we moved to the southern part of the island to have better access to the southern part of the Points East Coastal drive.  This is a small Provincial Park and our campsite is right on the water. We have full hookups but the one thing missing is a Wi-Fi connection.  We’re also located near the port for the Northumberland Ferries.  We decided to take the ferry to Nova Scotia on Friday the 20^th. We won’t have far to drive for our 9:30 AM departure.

There's "Monty" on the left.

Our view to the ocean.

The beach is below

While here we drove out to what I think may be the most famous lighthouse on the island, the Cape Bear lighthouse.  It was the first place to receive the distress call from the Titanic on their Marconi radio. The lighthouse was open to the public and for a small fee you can go inside and climb to the light. It no longer is a functional lighthouse but is used as a museum.  The actual working lighthouse is a few yards away and is just a solar powered light… not very newsworthy but I’m sure very important to the sailors at sea.

Cape Bear lighthouse

The functional lighthouse

Inside the lighthouse

On the way back from the lighthouse we stopped at the Rossignol winery overlooking the ocean. After tasting some of their wines we each picked a bottle of our favorite and headed back to the campground.

Rossignol winery tasting room

Statue carved from the local red sandstone.