[PHOTO] Low tide at the beach, east of Victoria by the Sea, Prince Edward Island

[rfmcdonald]

In August 2014, when I visited a dirt road leading to the shore a couple of minutes' driving east of Victoria-by-the-Sea, it was high tide. The waters of the Northumberland Strait had risen almost to the bottom of the cliffs. This time, it was low tide, with vast tracts of exposed red sand and seaweed stretching out tens, even hundreds, of metres.