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VISITORS TO Prince Edward Island enjoy hundreds of miles of smooth white and red sandy beaches.

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Explore P.E.i. beaches

THE SEA shapes Prince Edward
Island’s way of lif: in the same
way it sculpts its red-cliffed
shoreline and creates smooth pink
and white sand beaches.

' By BARBARA MacANDREW
Contributing Writer

It is a timeless and pervasive

presence. For islanders and their.

guests — this is a coastal world
created for work and play.

Prince Edward Island beaches
delight visitors with their pink,
red, or white sand beauty. They
are all around the island. .

There’s a’ space and freedom
here known only to seabound
islands. You can wander all alone
along miles of Prince Edward
Island beach ... or sit beside a
life-guard’s candy-striped beach
cabana with other sun, sand and
sea worshippers.

The ocean hugging this paddy-
green pastoral island is a resource
precious beyond practical or
esthetic values.

Micmac Indians first paddled
over the ocean and pulled their
curved birchbark canoes up on the
island’s gentle shores. They named
ic ‘‘Abegweit,’’ meaning ‘land

cradled on the waves.”’
Lobster was the lure for these
original island tourists. They

feasted on the shelifish, danced
and celebrated beside shore bon-
fires; fished and frolicked in the
sea. They came to Jove the place so
much they settled here in about
100 AD.

A similar scenario still happens
each summer as visitors from all
around: the world visit, eat
seafood, and fall in love with the
islarid. Today, however, they ar-

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WHERE ARE you going for your
holidays this year? Parksville?
Kelowna? How about
Afghanistan?

If your dreams outstrip your
ambition, or your desire to travel
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voyaging with Frank Ashdown at
the Capilano branch of the North
Vancouver District Library.

Ashdown will give a presenta-
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Faraway Places, an evening of

- slides and anecdotes on Thursday,

June 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Would-be travellers of all ages
are invited. There is no charge, but
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limited.

For more information or for di-
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tive in airplanes, cars, buses, or
yachts,

Prince Edward Island is a special
place because the inshore fishery,
boat-building, processing, and
shipping are a timeless heritage.
From the ocean comes feasts
unlike any. found in land-locked
areas. .

There’s nothing like the fun of
hand-lining your own fresh fish
supper while deep sea fishing off
Rustico Harbour or off the front
step of your seaside cottage. If
you’re too lazy to do any of this,
you and yours can take a jaunt in

. the car to any fishermen’s wharf to

buy your supper, as the catch is
landed.

The sea’s fish bounty brings in
over $67 million to Prince Edward
Island’s purse. Fishing is one of
the island province’s primary in-
dustries and ranks third in eco-
nomic importance.

Fishing can be cold and danger-
ous work. But on some days fish-
ermen say it is al! anyone could
desire. Today island couples — in-
deed whole families — are among
those who tend lobster traps,
mussel lines, oyster leases and fish
from the familiar Cape Island
boats.

For those who leave the dock
before dawn each morning the sea
is known as a bountiful but
mysterious mistress. ‘You treat
her with awe and a large measure
of respect. Those who don’t some-
times don’t live to tell their own
fish stories. They become the
ghosts of the decp .’” Island fish-
erman Walter Bruce is 78 and still
goes out each day to test his skifls
on the rich fishing grounds off the
island’s eastern tip.

“Well, it just seems like the

right thing to do when I get up in
the morning ...go to the beat...I’ve
been doing that since I was a smail
little lad...and I’m darned if I'd
stop now just because they say I’m
retirement age. I never seem to get
enough of the sea; it has secrets —
you never discover all of them even
after all the years. I’ll keep on go-
ing until all the fish are gone...or I
am gone myself.” Bruce says he
has the salt in his blood, and he
couldn’t live on the prairie or in
the city away from its tangy aroma
and rolling roar.

Islanders born beside the sea
find themselves drawn back to the
sea throughout their lives.

And some who have never seen
the sea are never quite the same
once they live beside it for the first
time, even for a few weeks in
summer. Back home they find
themselves longing for that ex-
panse of limitless blue water.

After the ocean’s aura even the
most spacious townhouse seems
confined,

And feeling their new loss, some
even run away to the sea, says
Mary Maynard. “‘I was born in
New York. I’d never seen the
ocean... might never have felt it if
we hadn’t come to Prince Edward
Island one summer in 1974. Once
seen, we were smitten.

The island and the ocean con-
tinue to attract thousands of
visitors who will never be quite the
Same again away from that special
charm of the changing sea, having
discovered for the first time, and
for all time, the great beaches of
Prince Edward Island.

For information on planning a
vacation on Prince Edward Island,
write to Box 940E, Charlottetown,
Priace Edward Island, CLA 7N8.

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