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Campbell's Cove Campground
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An imperfect family operating an imperfectly gorgeous campground in northeastern PEI, Canada. Open mid May (probably) to late October (likely) 2026.

www.campbellscovecampground.com

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While we love the ferry and are so confident it is our favorite part of traveling while on it, bookstores hold a very close second place in our hearts.

#thalassophile #hodophile #bibliophile #logophile #desiderosmia #EploreNS
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A bright sun shines in a light blue sky over the top of the ferry where the crew steers/operates from. The floor of the ferry is green. There are 4 white seats (benches back-to-back) visible, creating what seems like a green path to the door that leads you indoors. Shadows are heavy on the floor by the benches, as the sun is casting such highlights. A King's Co-Op Bookstore sticker sits on the top left corner of a black and gold hardcover book. The sticker is a white background with a pile of multicolored books jammed into a green bridge. The words 'King's Co-Op Bookstore' are written below the bridge in blue lettering. The book is black with a starry night depicted in gold color. There is a waterway on the bottom with rocky terrain on each side and a sailboat (of seemingly bygone days) floats in it. Above is a blank black space and then the night sky made up of varying sized dots giving the illusion of looking at constellations and the Milky Way. The title of the book - "THE DICTIONARY OF OBSCURE SORROWS" - is written in gold letters in the middle of the sky. The author's name -"JOHN KOENIG" - is also in gold upper case letters and has a box around it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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We have those moments too, TV.
A photo of a flat screen TV with blurry reflections of a hand holding a phone, and blobs of color that is a thrift store. On the top of the TV is a tag. Blue handwritten letters spell 'NON-SMART' on a white background.
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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When you feel like you're being watched......
A juvenile bald eagle sits atop a telephone pole with wires extending from the pole to the top right corner of the photo. Not yet old enough to have a white "bald" head, this eagle is brown and white with massive yellow talons, one of which is very visible on the side of the pole. The sky behind is a solid, cloudless blue. (The eagle's visible eye is clearly aware of the human watching it from the ground.) This photo was taken at Campbell’s Cove Campground in Prince Edward Island, Canada during the last week of September in 2025.
November 2, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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We love a good beachwalk.

Depending on what tomorrow's weather brings, this may well have been the calm before.

#IslandLife #Skywatching
Redish sand, freshly blown in, and void of footprints lies between chunks of deep red sandstone - essentially leading directly into the blue ocean. The sky above is light blue with puffy clouds. Photo taken on a beachwalk from Campbell's Cove Campground in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
October 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Beatles said, "All You Need Is Love," and it looks like this section of the beach agrees.

#IslandLife #GetOutside
#FindJoy #ChooseYourOwnAdventure
#InYourOwnBackyard
A piece of red sandstone about 2 feet wide looks like a heart. (The shape; not the medical organ.) The heart is surrounded by brownish-green seaweed and smaller rocks of varying shades of greys & blues. This photo was taken on a beachwalk at Campbell’s Cove Campground in PEI, Canada.
October 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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We love a good sunflower, especially when PEI was so lacking in rainfall this summer.

Surviving is inspiring.

#BloomScrolling #ThrivingThursday
#TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
A sunflower with a brown center and long petals of redish yellow stands taller than the row of sunflowers behind it. The background sunflowers are yellow petals with dark yellow centers. They are mixed in amongst green leaves and greenish brown stalks. It is clear the sunflowers survived in spite of next to no rainfall during the summer.
September 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Two summers in a row?!
Perhaps we know how to grow bell peppers now!

#EverythingIsAnExperiment
#OctopusGarden #GetDirty #OctopusGarden2025 #ThrivingThursday

Be a lifelong learner.
A green bell pepper hangs (precariously close to the ground) from its plant. The plant is green stalks and green leaves with a few off-white closed up blooms that we hope will turn into more peppers. The dirt is redish brown and desperately dry. So much so you can see it cracking.
July 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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A wee baby tomato!
😍
🍅

#OctopusGarden
#ThrivingThursday #OctopusGarden2025
In a sea of green leaves and braches sits a tiny round green growth that we hope to see turn into a full-sized tomato soon! This photo was taken in the Octopus Garden at Campbell’s Cove Campground in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
July 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Things are growing!

#ThrivingThursday
#OctopusGarden
#OctopusGarden2025
#StrawberryFieldsForever
A new green leaf and a tiny white flower amongst some dead brown leaves and wet dirt suggest we might get a strawberry or two! A green rectangle planter with wet brown dirt and a clump of green spearmint in the middle. It is our hope that spearmint will help deter mosquitoes, black flies, and rodents at Campbell’s Cove Campground in Prince Edward Island, Canada. (It must stay in pots and planters as mint is very invasive.) Many small green spade (sort of) shaped leaves of lemon balm. It is our hope that lemon balm will help keep mosquitoes and black flies at bay on days the wind doesn't.
June 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Did you ever look around and realize you're living in a pretty stereotypically Canadian environment?

Nah, we didn't either.

#TruePEI #LoveYourBackyard
A tiny sign that looks like someone living in the area put it up sits on the side of the Northside Road. It is a yellow diamond with a black silhouette of a Canada goose on it. Beneath that are the words "goose crossing" in black letters. Photo was taken in Eastern Kings, Prince Edward Island, Canada in early June 2025.
June 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The Stairway To Heaven.

#DoWhatYouLove
#LoveWhatYouDo
A wooden staircase leads down to a white sandy beach. The water is redish-blue close to the sandline and gets darker as it gets deeper. The middle of the photo is the horizon where the dark blue ocean meets the light blue, cloudless sky. This photo was taken at the so-called Stairway To Heaven at Campbell’s Cove Campground in Northeastern PEI, Canada in early June 2025.
June 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Look at all the little fuzzies!
An adult red fox is nose to nose with one of her fuzzy dark grey babies (AKA kits or pups). There are 3 more chubby babies a foot or so to the left, mostly in the shade of a picnic table. More to the left, on the other side of the picnic table sit 2 more littles bringing the total to 6 kits. They are in front of a tan colored building with an orange board over a window from winter prep. In the background is a tree root, long yellowed grass and dark blue waters. This photo was taken with a zoom lens to not disturb the foxes, at Campbell's Cove Campground in PEI, Canada.
May 7, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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If every year you get better at growing things, eventually, more plants will survive the seedling stage.

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Living plants will, in fact, take up more room than dead ones. Who knew? #MaxedOut

#OctopusGarden2025
#ThrivingThursday
#OctopusGarden
#TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
#CampbellsCoveCampground
Various shapes and shades of green leaves fill a shelf under a (not pictured) grow light. The leaves are so plentiful, you can't see the ground below them. The plants are: Bell peppers Cherry tomatoes Chocolate mint Watermelon (moon & stars) Watermelon (black diamond) Looking forward to planting them in the garden at Campbell’s Cove Campground in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
April 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Being given 8 tracks isn't how your dad decides who the favorite kid is?!

#TuesdayTunes
#MusicSky
#septuagenarian
#melomaniac
A stack of 8 track cassettes found at a thrift store in Charlottetown, PEI. Mr. T by Conway Twittt Charley's Best by Charlie Pride Southern Nights by Glen Campbell She's Just An Old Love Turned Memory by Charley Pride Carroll Baker by Carroll Baker
April 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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#BloomScrolling

🌱🌻🌼
A bunch of sunflowers: A big, fully-open sunflower with a dark brown center and long, yellow petals (waving slightly from the wind) is I'm the top left corner. The top right corner has a slightly smaller sunflower head, where the yellow petals around the outside are not fully outstretched yet. The bottom right corner has a small sunflower head, completely closed. The yellow petals are still hugging the center tightly. There are green leaves and stalks through the middle and bottom left of the photo. Some shadows of the leaves are on the building in the background. Photo taken by the office building at Campbell’s Cove Campground in PEI, Canada.
March 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Growth!

#ThrivingThursday
#OctopusGarden
A watermelon leaf sticks out of a round dish of dirt. The leaf is green and has 5 sides. In the blurry background are other plants. (Chocolate mint, bell peppers, tomato) Any plants that are still alive in June will get planted in a garden at Campbell's Cove Campground in Prince Edward Island, Canada.
March 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Sharing with alt text on image.

#TeamworkMakesTheDreamWork
"I LITERALLY WANT MY TAX DOLLARS TO SUPPORT NATIONAL PARKS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, CONSERVATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AND HELPING MARGINALIZED PEOPLE. IN CASE THAT WASN'T CLEAR." The background is white, and the letters are all upper case and in different colors, with some images thrown in: 1st line: 'I literally' is black. Yellow diamond. 'want' is pink. Yellow diamond. 2nd line: 'my' is black. Green dollar sign. 'tax dollars' is green. Green dollar sign. 3rd line: 'to support' is black. There is an evergreen tree. 4th line: 'national parks' is brown. 5th line: 'science is blue. 'education' is red. There is a beaker. 6th & 7th lines: a circle with a mountain range skyline is on the left. Green grass, black mountains, orange and yellow sky with a couple of white clouds. 'conservation' and 'mental health' are stacked beside the image in green letters. 8th line: 'and helping' is in black lettering with 6 arms in various shades of beige and brown. 9th line: 'marginalized' is in rainbow colors and 'people' is in the same shades of beige and brown as the arms above it. 10th line: 'in case that wasn't clear' is written in black.
March 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The Scout might be the coolest old book in the Mooney household. An antique even.

There used to be a magazine called The Scout, and this book is a compilation of every issue from 1925.

1925.
AKA 100 years ago.

#BookSky 📚
#20DayBookChallenge
A red hardcover book called "THE SCOUT" with a pencil-style drawing of (what one can assume to be) a Scout. He is wearing a neck scarf, a long sleeved shirt with the sleeves rolled up (possibly the universal sign of a man who is working?), a belt around the shirt, knee-length shorts, socks pulled up to below his knees and shoes. One hand holds a wide-brimmed hat down by his waist, while the other hand holds a flag high above his head. The flag image is blurry but it is safe to assume it is the Boy Scouts logo. The spine of a book called "THE SCOUT" has a red background and is worn and wrinkled and ripped. It reads "FOUNDED BY SIR ROBERT BAYDEN-POWELL" and has a picture (sketch) of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, a long sleeved shirt, shorts and maybe a backpack. He appears to have one foot on each side of a point. (As if he's straddling a mountain top.) Below the photo it says "ANNUAL VOLUME 1926" and finally "RYERSON PRESS" in small letters at the very bottom of the spine. A picture of the top of a couple of pages in a book called 'THE SCOUT' which is a year's collection of Scout magazines. The banner on the top of a yellowing page reads, "In Quest of the Singing Wave. A thrilling tale of a search for a mysterious wave." The date on the top margin of the page says September 26, 1925. A little sample of the material from 1925: Two men, about to fight a duel, met at the railway station en route for the appointed field. The first man asked for a return ticket, but the second man only took a single. "Ha! You fear you will never come back! I always take a return," said the former. "I never do," retorted his adversary calmly. "I always take my return half from the dead man!"
March 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Probably the best part about an entire family partaking in a #20DayBookChallenge challenge is when the dad gets out his old Scouts/Brownies book collection.

Farmer Charlie was a Scout leader in the mid 80s, loves old things, and doesn't wear ties. Guess what he got for holidays?

#BookSky
A yellow paperback with green letters spelling "THE WOLF CUB'S HANDBOOK" across the tip of the cover. On the bottom right there is a sketch (in green) of what we assume to be a wolf cub. To the left of the drawing, small green letters read "BY LORD BAYDEN-POWELL OF GILWELL." A worn paperback with a green edge. Inside the green frame is a picture of people outside. There is a person by a tree on a cliff on the left hand side, looking down to the valley and beach area below. There are people playing Frisbee in the middle, on green grass, between the cliff to the left and the beach to the back right. There is an orange tent and a red tent pitched on the beach. People are sitting on logs around a campfire. At the top of the cover there are white letters outlined in thin red spelling "THE CUB BOOK" Green grass and blue sky make up the background of this book. "the brownie handbook" is written in lower case brown lettering on the bottom of the book, over the grass. There is a toadstool mushroom in the middle of the cover with an owl sitting on it. 2 white girls in brown matching Brownie uniforms that are long sleeved but with a skirt to the knees, brown socks pulled up to just below their knees and wearing brown hats are mid-jump over the mushroom. The 2 brownies are holding the hands of 3 pixies or fairies. One is dressed in a green outfit, one in a blue outfit and one in a yellow outfit. Everyone is smiling. They don't even seem aware that Boy Scouts books had titles in all upper case letters, but Brownies get books with all lower case letters.
March 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

18/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge #TheWriteWomen
A book with a white background. The title "THE MENOPAUSE MANIFESTO" is written across the top one third of the book in simple black lettering. The middle of the cover has a grey (metal?) desktop fan which is clearly running because colored streamers are straight outward as if being blown by the wind. It is to the left. On the right "OWN YOUR HEALTH WITH FACTS AND FEMINISM" is in pink lettering. The author "DR. JEN GUNTER" is written in the same black lettering as the title. The very bottom reads "AUTHOR OF #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER THE VAGINA BIBLE" in small pink letters.
March 7, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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We love touching dirt.

#ThrivingThursday #OctopusGarden2025
Round plastic containers with brown dirt and small green plants sit on a wire shelf. Through the wire shelf, the lower shelf is showing to also have round containers of small plants. The plants are cherry tomatoes and watermelon. Or at least we hope they live long enough to get transplanted in the garden at Campbell’s Cove Campground in PEI, Canada in the spring.
March 7, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

17/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
An oversized paperback with a colorful cartoon cover called The Essential CALVIN AND HOBBES. The image is Hobbes, a cartoon tiger, and Calvin, a white kid with blonde spikey hair, in mid-air in a doorway. The door appears to have been flung open. Hobbes looks excited and happy while Calvin appears to be in a bit more panic. There are books, papers, and Calvin's shoes in mid-air as well, suggesting Hobbes may have tackled Calvin while he was carrying and/or wearing those things. There is a little green bush on either side of the steps that Calvin and Hobbes are in the air above. The background has a large tree. There is a walkway from the bottom of the cover leading to the step. The author's name 'Bill Waterson' is written over the pathway.
March 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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"Yeah, I can work this out,
Nothing's holdin' me back.
There's hope on the horizon
Or maybe the Earth's just flat."

- Saint Steve Irwin by Jesse Welles.

#TuesdayTunes #MusicSky
A picture of an iPod screen showing 3 squares representing 1 album and 2 singles. The artist is Jesse Wells, which is written across the top of the screen. The album is called Pathchwork and is a photo of a young person's side profile from the shoulders up. They may be driving a vehicle when it was taken. The single is called "The Poor" and is a black and white photo of a young person leaning ahead. The neck of the unpictured guitar is visible. The 3rd square is a song called "War Isn't Murder" and the photo is a black and white picture of someone holding a guitar, facing the camera straight on.
March 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

16/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge #TheWriteWomen
A paperback with purple and blue splattered background. The author's name 'SARA PASCOE' is in all upper case, white letters across the top of the cover. In the middle of the cover large yellow letters read 'Being a Witch' with smaller white letters, 'and Other Things I Didn't Ask For' beneath.
March 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

15/20

#BookSky 💙📚
#20DayBookChallenge
#BookChallenge
An oversized paperback with a background of vibrant colors fading into each other softly. (From top to bottom, it's orange into yellow into green into blue into purple into pink.) 'MAD' is written across the top in red and black letters (as in MAD Magazine), and 'ABOUT THE SIXTIES' is below in grey puffy lettering that resembles puffs of smoke. There is a cartoon white man with shaggy brown hair and a flower tucked over each ear. (It is Alfred E. Neuman, the MAD Magazine's mascot.) He has a green tunic (presumably - it only shows his shoulders and up, but there is a tall collar and no buttons down the front of his chest) and 3 sets of beads. Alfred has a 4th necklace sporting a bell hanging from what appear to be small animal bones (or maybe large animal teeth) strung with a bead between each. Alfred has a sad little goatee and a hoop earing in his right earlobe. There is a red hippie-style flower drawn onto his cheek, and his eyes wouldn't be described as sober. Just over Alfred E. Neuman's shoulder, on the right of the book, BY "THE USUAL GANG OF IDIOTS" is written in thick yellow lettering as author credit.
March 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM