Chilly Drive in PEI

The last couple of days we have had some pretty strange weather.  For the past couple of weeks we have had snow storms, ice storms, and wind storms galore.  Temperatures have been freezing cold up to -31C.  But the last couple of days, things have changed.  Temperatures rose to +14C and with the high winds it melted all the snow that we have had.  Unfortunately it only lasted for one day before the temperatures dropped down to below zero again.

The skies have been a gorgeous blue for the past couple of days so we thought we would go and take a short tour of the island to see if the snow had melted everywhere else.  We took a couple of roads we had not driven on before as well as those we were familiar with.  We found that the snow had melted and the grass was looking as it did in the late fall.  However the rivers and ocean did look different from the fall.  They were covered with ice! 

Our beautiful view that I talk about quite often is called Long River.  As we left our driveway we had to stop and start taking pictures right away.  Long River had frozen over but there was a patch of water running freely through the ice.  There were several ducks swimming in the water.  Quite often while sitting in the hot tub at night, we could hear the ducks quacking.  I knew they were out there, but I didn’t realize just how many there were!

We continued on our afternoon drive and saw a side road that looked like it would lead to water so we took it.  It was a dirt road but it was so frozen that it felt solid.  There was a little inlet of water that had frozen over and there were some people skating on it.  It looked like they were having fun.  As we carried on we came across a row of summer homes.  They were right on the ocean.  As we looked out over the water we could see that the ice had formed in the distance.  Some of the ice had broken free and had floated to the shore line.  I had never seen rivers and oceans freeze before.  I found this very interesting and glad that we had a nice warm house to come home to. 

It was such a beautiful day today I just had to share it with you.  The temperature was a bit chilly at -18C but we didn’t mind.  Being out in the sunshine, driving around the island to see things I’ve never seen before, just made it another adventure for us.  And we all know how much we love adventures!  J

So these are the ducks we hear sitting in the hot tub at night!

Good thing the ducks have a little water to swim in!

Most of the river is frozen over

Long River

Having a meeting in the middle of the inlet?

The ocean is frozen in the distance

Hard for me to imagine an ocean freezing over

Looking through the summer homes at the ocean

Nobody lives here in the winter

Summer homes with quite a view!

Ice has broken free and floated to shore

Beuatiful day for a drive

Ice along the shore line

Skaters on a frozen inlet

Looks like they are having fun!

Malpeque Oyster Barn  ... closed for the winter

Frozen Bay in Malpeque