Fun at Covehead

One of our outings recently included a visit to the National Park on the central portion of Prince Edward Island with our daughter and grandchildren. Our destination for the day was Covehead 

but we started with a picnic at the Babbling Brook and FarmLands trailhead where my husband and I have had wonderful picnics in all seasons. 

The area looks quite different from three months ago when skeleton trees harboured birds busy consuming what was left of the sumac berries.

Following lunch, we went to the wharf at Covehead, where the lobster boats are tied up for another season. 

However the wharf is still busy as swimmers flock to the area to jump off the wharf into the inlet.

There is a bridge at Covehead which was the original location for the jumpers in the area.

Young and old alike jumped from the bridge, checking to avoid boats going to or returning from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. New fortifications on the bridge 

have made jumping there more difficult so the majority of jumpers now leap or dive from the wharf.

Our daughter and granddaughters were eager to join the fun that day. The girls jumped numerous times from the wharf, 

while our daughter jumped several times. My husband and I were happy to watch them.

Our grandson isn’t ready for jumping yet. Instead he went for a swim and joined the girls and his mother as they floated past in the strong current that takes people under the bridge and into the Gulf if you stay in the water. 

Most swimmers leave the water earlier though to jump again.

It was windy that day and gulls nearby stood into the wind. 

I wondered if they, like us, felt sand blasted as they stood their watch. Meanwhile a lone cormorant floated around in the water, fished occasionally or floated along with the current farther from shore but parallel to the swimmers. 

He dives from the surface of the water and doesn’t mind sharing the channel with these fine weather friends.

Note:

I used several photos I had taken on previous visits to Covehead.