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Authentic PEI Experiences - Red Sands Shore
Last updated September 19, 2013. For more information contact Melody Gay, 902-368-6339.
| Description | Contact/Category | Availability | Prices | Notes | |
| Cool Curling Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PE |
How about trying your hand at curling? If you've never done it before, this would be a great opportunity to see what it's like on your own private sheet of ice with individual instruction. You can re-hash the game with a beer and some munchies. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
½ Day Jan - March | $150 (2-8 PPL) | |
| Enchanted Candles Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PEI (Ben Smith) |
Make your own candle design and pick the filler wax colour to create a candle that can be repeatedly refilled and last forever.....a continuous reminder of the great experience you had while on Prince Edward Island. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Art/Crafts |
Daily, May - Oct | $55/PP | |
| Five Sisters of Lavender Lane Carol Cook |
Visit and learn about lavender from growing to distilling. Unique gifts in potting shed. Magical Fairy Trail to explore, accessible. Create your own experience from making fairy garden baskets, to a magical fairy night on the trail; and even a fairy tea party. |
1-902-658-2203, 658-2821 |
Winter hours by appointment, summer hours 10am-5pm, Open Year Round | $40/PP | Min 5 |
| GPS Adventure Quest Bill & Mary Kendrick, Experience PEI |
Get off the traditional tourist routes and give yourself a different perspective. Combine modern technology with an old fashioned scavenger hunt. It's called Geocaching. Spend a half or full day seeking out historic sites, lighthouses, churches or a combination of unique places that most tourists never get to. We have created clues you will use in your quest and questions to be answered to complete a crossword puzzle. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
Island Wide, Daily by Appointment, July 1 - Sept 30 | $75 (includes use of 1 GPS unit) $30/per Additional unit | ($150 refundable deposit required for each GPS unit) |
| I Dig Therefore I Clam Kayaking Adventure Paul Sheridan |
Kayak out to a beautiful sand shoal where you will try various methods of digging clams. After all of your hard work help prepare and enjoy beach side chowder. | 1-902-658-2700 1-877-879-2572 1-902-658-2572 (off season) website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
Tide Dependent ½ Day, June 1 - Sept 30 | $80/PP, Family rate upon request. | Min 2, Max 12 |
| Joy of Watercolour Julia Purcell |
Begin or renew your fascination with the Joy of Watercolour Painting. Join experienced teacher/artist Julia Purcell in a small group for a half-day painting experience on location. Session includes interactive demonstrations, moving quickly to warm up sketches and finished pieces. Composition and color mixing will be emphasized. Materials included. | 1-902-368-7526 or 1-902-658-2228 website Category: Art/Crafts |
Pre-registration required, mornings year round, 1/2 day | $60/PP | Min 1, Max 4 |
| Play In Clay Cindy & Darryl Lentz |
Explore the inner artisan in you. Create your own Island Clay Memory with hands on personalized instruction from a professional potter. You can make a functional piece of pottery to use in your home with pride and be able to say " I MADE THAT!" Great for famlies and groups of all ages. | 1-855-2529 1-888-PEI-Clay (734-2529) Right Off the Batt Pottery website Category Art/Crafts |
1/2 day, approx 3 Hours, Year Round, Must Pre-Book. Morning, afternoon and evening classes available. | $59.95/PP (1-3 PPL) $49.95/PP (4 PPL) Price structure varies in the off season | Min 1, Max 30. Can accommodate bus tours, accessible |
| Secret Smelting Rituals Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PEI |
Be initiated into the ancient art of smelt spearing. That's right. We fish using short spears! All across PEI, there's a secret ritual going on inside these tiny buildings dotting the bays and inlets...and now you can be in on the secret. Our fishermen will fascinate you with their tall tales of their years of fishing the elusive smelt. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
½ Day Daily Jan - March | $150/PP (2-6 PPL) | |
| Sensational Sand Castles Bill & Mark Kendrick Experience PEI (Maurice Bernard) |
Sculpt a magical sand creation on a beautiful Island beach. Maurice Bernard is one of the Island's leading sand sculptors. Follow his step-by-step method and he will have you creating your very own castle in just two hours. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Art/Crafts |
Daily, May-Oct | $50/PP (2-3 PPL), $35/PP (4-6 PPL), $25/PP (7-10 PPL) | Inquire about rates for larger groups. |
| Starry Starry Night Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PEI (Ron Perry & Rolly Chaisson) |
Start your star gazing experience inside with Ron Perry and Rolly Chaisson of the Athena Astronomy Club. Ron and Rolly will start your evening off with a power point presentation and a planisphere to show you what to look for in the night sky. Constellations like, Orion, the rings of Saturn and the International Space Station. Once you know what to look for they will take you outdoors where the huge telescope will be set up for you to get up close and personal with the stars and planets. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
Daily, June 1 - October | $75/PP (2-3 PPL) $45/PP (4-10 PPL) | Min 2 Max 10 |
| Tong and Shuck Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PEI (Brian Lewis) |
Join oyster fishers Erskine and Brian Lewis as they teach you to tong oysters in Salutation Cove. Shuck and eat oysters straight out of the water. They will never be fresher than this! | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
Mon - Fri, May - Oct | $85/PP (2-3 PPL) $65/PP (4-5 PPL) $50/PP (6-8 PPL) | Must be booked 48 hours in advance |
| Contact: | Melody Gay (MLGAY@gov.pe.ca) 1-902-368-6339 |
Janet Wood (JEWOOD@gov.pe.ca) 1-902-368-5508 |


