Another destination in our recent PEI staycation was Greenwich, PEI National Park located the island’s northeast shore.  It is perhaps best known for the biggest sand dunes on the island as well as a floating boardwalk. Melissa and I hiked several kilometers from the entrance through to Greenwich beach.  The walk takes you through marshes, a forest and of course the sand dunes. 

Greenwich has a long history with connections to Mi’kmaq and Acadian culture including now defunct farms that shaped the land.  Several archaeological digs conducted between 1983 and 2002 by the Canadian Museum of Civilization and Parks Canada have found traces left by the major cultures that have existed on Prince Edward Island over the past 10,000 years. These include early Mi’kmaq communities, French and Acadian settlers, and Scottish, Irish, and English immigrants.  It was a home to the earliest French settlers who migrated there from their shipwreck at Naufrage in 1719.  Scottish settlers arrived in 1771 and 1772.  Apart from a cemetery on the west side of Naufrage harbour, little evidence remain of these earliest French residents.

All these photos were taken with a Sony A7III using a number of vintage Pentax, Canon and Olympus lenses from the 1970’s.  These optics are all metal construction which means they are heavy and after walking a few kilometers, my shoulders were sore.  Lesson learned, next time I walk such distance, I’ll take some smaller and lighter modern lenses.

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