PELEE ISLAND: DAY 3

Last day of our holiday. I just want to remind you to click on the photos to make them bigger.

SAT 15 OCT 2011 10:42am  We've been home a couple of days now so I need to relate our last day on Pelee. We got up late so didn't have time to see all the things we had planned on. Had showers and a quick last run on the beach for glass. Then we went down a road near us that led to a cemetery and an old winery. The headstones in the cemetery were quite worn so hard to read. The oldest I found was 1868. The founding settlers the McCormicks, (he leased the island in 1823), were there. Looking back we don't think we found the old winery but another large building was in ruins and there appears to be something being done to it.

A very busy man. His wife outlived him by 50 years though.

And there he lay.

Old winery?

Nice ruin, whatever it is.

Good advice.

Then we returned to the cottage, had  lunch, and packed everything into the car. We stopped at the museum which is just across from the ferry, to show Ron the picture of the frog. OK so it is actually a toad and probably not rare, but I'm sending him the picture and he knows people who can easily identify it.

Some of Zane's handy work.

A pensive last view of the bay.

"Til we come again.

Sitting at  the back of the ferry watching the big wake rolling like a road out behind us, the gulls dipping and gliding, the lake freighters, and the island itself very gradually getting smaller until it fades from view, disappearing like our holiday.

Adieu