Prince Edward Island

Sally's Beach & boardwalk is a Provincial Day Park located on the east coast of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It fronts on the magnificient Northumberland Strait (Ocean), and very close to the famous Inn At Spry Point, Annandale Wharf, and not far from the growing town of Montague.

When visiting Prince Edward Island, be sure and visit Sally's Beach, and the Inn At Spry Point.

That's it for now...

George Jordan, Red Soil Real Estate Inc., http://www.buysellpei.com

A large blue whale washed ashore in Nail Pond, PEI, in 1987, and was later transported and buried in the sand a short distance away. Now the University of British Columbia lead by Andrew Trites, is in the process of uncovering the giant whale to recover its skeleton to be displayed in a new museum on its campus. Students from the University of Prince Edward Island, and Holland College are helping in the effort. Scientists from UBC found the body of the blue whale quite perserved with the skin still wrapped around the blubber.

Canada does not have a blue whale skeleton on display and there are only 17 of them displayed around the world, of which, four in the United States.

Not even the biggest dinosaur could match the size of the giant blue whale. The whale's tongue is the size of an elephant, the heart is as big as a car, and a baby could crawl through its huge arteries. It is longer than 2-40 foot school buses placed end to end.

The public is welcome to come to the site of the buried blue whale and watch as the many volunteers uncover the magnificant animal. The whale should be fully uncovered by this Saturday (May 17, 2008).

The team includes three people whose sole job is sharpening knives. Then there is the tagger with some 1,000 tags for identifying the blue whale, the photographer for every big or small piece, andthe film crew from Discovery Channel that is following the whole project to the very end.The team brought a mammoth chain saw from British Columbia to help cut the skull in 2 pieces.That is required to get inside to clean it out and support it for transport.Once dug up, cut up and recorded, the whale parts will be packed into a container andtransported across Canada by rail, free of charge courtesy of CN Rail.

The goal is to display the skeleton by the fall of 2009 in an all-glass atrium above the stairs leading down to the underground Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia.

This is a tremendous co-opertive project between the 2 Canadian provinces of British Columbia, and Prince Edward Island, and will give PEI a new exciting exposure to its other Canadian provinces as well as to the world.

George Jordan, Owner/Broker, Red Soil Real Estate Inc., http://www.buysellpei.com

An old sea kayaking client and friend contacted me recently.

He's got 9 different locations with approximately 60 lots ranging from one to 10 acres and with pricing from $50,000 (wooded) to $700,000 (prime white sand beach oceanfront). The average lot price is on the order of $150,000. He also have 3 homes, ranging from $349,000 (spectacular ocean view) to $549,000 (5 acres beach oceanfront).

This is beautiful property ... and the prices are peanuts for the new wealthy of Alberta.

I'll plan to visit a few of these properties when I'm home in June.

Would you purchase a home online? Without ever seeing it in person? Charlotte and I did a final walk through today on a house that will close tomorrow with our clients who were seeing their home "in real life" for the first time. Our clients were from out of province and relocating back to PEI, so we spent the past few months working with them online to find the right home for them. Circumstances on their end meant that they couldn't travel to PEI to view the house for themselves, but they wanted to have a house lined up before they arrrived. They are a young couple with 3 children under the age of 4 (the youngest being just seven weeks, born on the day our offer was presented and accepted!).

We worked closely with our clients - virtual tours uploaded for them to view, working with home inspectors, electricians, and extended family members on their behalf. We sent out rough sketched house layouts for them to view and after much searching, we found the perfect house for them. The minute they saw this house listed, they thought - wow. The minute Charlotte and I saw it on their behalf, we thought "WOW" - perfect match.

So after about 6 months of phone calls and emails, we finally met face to face today - to show them their new home for the first time. And I am so happy to say that they loved it in person as much as they loved it online. It was so great to meet them in real life for us too, though I certainly felt like we *knew* each other. I felt a bit like a matchmaker - this time matching the house to the client. We are so happy for our new friends and the house they chose, and wish them every success here starting their new life in Charlottetown.

Online shopping has so much potential!

The Opposition Progressive Conservatives on Prince Edward Island unveiled a plan Wednesday they say farmers need to help weather an economic storm.

The multimillion-dollar Tory plan would waive farm property taxes for two years, provide rebates on diesel fuel and offer other financial incentives.

"Whenever you have a downturn in a sector it's the role of government to partner with that sector to work with them and weather a storm," said industry critic Mike Currie.

Farmers with livestock have been facing particularly hard times. Feed prices are rising as grain is used for ethanol production. At the same time international competition is lowering prices for hogs and cattle. Hog farmers will face additional difficulty this month with the closing of the Island's hog plant.

From 2002 to 2007 it's estimated the number of hog farms on the Island dropped from 400 to 75.

$7.5M tab for plan

"We've been listening to the farmers and especially the business community in the last little while and there's a great deal of concern out there," said Currie.

"We have come up with some solutions that we feel might jump-start the agricultural community for this coming year."

In total the aid package would cost taxpayers about $7.5 million. Currie said the crisis has almost reached a point where the government can't afford not to do this.

The Tories would also like to see government bring in a moratorium on all farm foreclosures for two years, as well as allow farmers to pay just the interest on farm-related loans.

Opposition leader Olive Crane said she hasn't yet approached government with her party's ideas.

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