Rivers Edge Cottage
196 Campbellton Road - RTE 238 Stanley Bridge C0B1M0 Kensington, PE, Canada

Great quote from Kelly Ripa, host of "Live! with Kelly". Quote taken from a new interview that appears in WestJet's UP! magazine: "When asked what her favourit...e destination has been for family getaways, Ripa’s answer is surprising. She loves the British Virgin Islands and goes to Colorado every year to ski and snowshoe. But if she had to pick just one? Prince Edward Island has stayed with me, says Ripa, who travelled there in July 2010 for four episodes of what was then Live! with Regis and Kelly. It’s left its mark on me. I think about it, I dream about it. I remember seeing my children happier there than they’ve ever been. We did amazing things, but we did the real things that matter in life: we took walks, the kids played in the ocean. We did things that didn’t require gadgets and equipment. Because we are raising our kids in New York City, we love the wilderness and I think children need that. We like to bring them to unspoiled places.

Congrats PEI! Prince Edward Island was recently named the #2 emerging travel destination on the planet for 2020 on the site Travel Lemming. You can read the article here: https://travellemming.com/2020-travel-destination-reader-awards/"This is a highly competitive annual award that came after a nomination by the local tourism board and a competition among nearly 100 official boards globally."

As a former surf lifesaver I constantly find myself when I'm at a beach automatically in patrol mode, and I'm always troubled seeing the amount of swimmers that... enter the surf straight into a rip zone. This includes, and most worrying of all children. I know a lot of people are kind of aware of what to do if caught in a rip, but it has been brought to my attention recently that a lot of people aren't aware of what a rip actually looks like or where the safest place to swim at the beach is if there is no flagged area. One person will drown every two to three days this summer... 90% of those fatalities will be rip-related. Here are a few things that will help you and your kids stay safe this summer. I have also put together a few images that show what to look for. 1. The easiest thing to remember is that often the safest/calmest most enticing looking area along a beach is usually a rip. A rip is usually the area devoid of wave activity and appears darker and deceptively calmer. It can sometimes appear milky or turbulent, but it is always pretty much void of wave activity. All that water coming in via waves has to go back out somehow, this is what a rip is. (see pics). 2. Always take 5-10 mins when you get to the beach to observe surf conditions and identify where these areas are. 3. If you are caught in a rip, DO NOT PANIC. Go into floating mode and raise one arm as a distress signal when possible. See which direction the rip is taking you, is it straight out or at an angle? once you have determined this, and if you have the energy, swim to the right or left of the direction of flow, never against. Some rips can move at 3 times the speed of an olympic swimmer, you won't win! If you cannot swim out to either side of the rip, just go with it. Most rips won't take you out very far, and will usually spit you out not long after they take you, so keep calm and save your energy for the swim back to shore. 4. If you have kids, show them these pictures, educate them and make them aware. You can't always be watching them, and it is only a matter of a few metres each way of the point of entry to the water that could mean them being safe, or instantly caught in a rip. Obviously the safest place to swim is always between the flags on a patrolled beach, but this isn't always practical given the immensity of our coast line and number of beautiful beaches. Of course there are many other factors that can come into play when it comes to beach safety, but rips are the No.1 killer. They are not hard to identify, and 10 mins observation before entering the surf is much easier than body retrieval. *The darker/calmer areas in the pics are rips. The one with purple dye shows rip movement. Kenny Jewell - Official

Join us at Stanley Bridge Hall Ceilidhs 6 nights a week with the best of Prince Edward Island traditional music! We are PEI's Ceilidh destination! For informati...on, please call after 5 pm daily - 902-886-2281 Richard WOOD international touring artist Louise MacKinnon Rannie MacLellan Marlene Gallant Charlene Belsher Faye Williams Louise Arsenault Helen Bergeron Brad Fremlin Jonny Ray Arsenault Shane Pendergast Phyllis Carr Carolyn Pendergast Marsha Elizabeth Weeks