I really think you should come to PEI and enjoy the <i>warmest water north of Florida</i> - after all Al, you do know it is true.

My private parts won't let me participate in that charade anymore.

I thought it was the warmest water north of Virginia. South Carolina's beaches in June are without a doubt warmer than PEI's at any time during the year.

Connecticut's beaches are much warmer from my experience in the summer of 2001. Cavendish isn't any warmer that Malmurby in Pictou Co for God's sake and they are frigging cold.

Go to Gettysburg in Southern PA.

N.B.'s Tourism line is Virginia. PEI claims Florida.

Both of them are on crack and given that the warmest beaches in each province share the same small body of water they're not just on crack, they're bad marketers. Maybe that's why tourism was down this year.

From the PEI Tourism site:

"Island beaches are among the best in the country with the warmest ocean waters north of Virginia."

From another part of the PEI Tourism page (on the page about windsurfing):

"It's no secret that Prince Edward Island has sandy beaches and the warmest waters north of the Carolinas."

From staypei.ca:

"We have the warmest beaches north of Cape Cod."

The funniest comes from 50more.com and an article on Canadian beaches:

"One of the reasons PEI?s beaches have built a following is the surrounding water is the warmest found north of Bermuda."

Oh, the hilarity.

Wow, if it is written, it must be true. Al, conversations about your private parts is really more than we need to know. Ben, we keep the crack consumption limited to, er, better not say, Toronto lawyers are trolling the blogs looking for lunch.

If I find the time I will get some links to actual water temperature charts for the eastern seaboard so we do not have to listen to tourism marketers or my gonad-o-meter.

I guess PEI dropped Florida in 2000 and adapted Virginia. I know NB uses Virginia as a comparative start. PEI used to use Florida, but nobody wants to be associated with Florida after the 2000 election debacle. They couldn't count, so how could they read a thermometer?

If those charts don't include "chill factor" the research will be for not. As the U.S. and Canada have different ways to measure Chill factor, you probably could not put forward a valid argument. I will always be able to say that the water off PEI "feels" just as warm to Islanders as does that which is found off Florida. It would be an(or "another") - :^Ô - * tongue-in-cheek" inarguable statement"!

I am then sticking with the gonad-o-scope.

Think again. Almost half the U.S. is depressed. Instead
Fly to Rome.(Tons of real old stuff) Train to Naples. Ferry across the bay, past Pompeii, Mt. Vesuvius to the island of Capri. Olive trees, wine, caves, hammocks, very slow, small sailboats, very slow, small bikinis. Rest. One of the places I have visited that I would really like to return to(other Fife). Worth every penny.

No planes for me. The nearest warmest beach that I can get little kids to in July or August in a day and a half is the goal.

Here are the beach water temperatures for the US central Altantic Coast. Lewes averages 74° F in the second half of July - note that that is offshore at a point above 28 metres depth. Here is the bouy that takes the reading.<p>Conversely, Dalvay's PEI's best brag is 68° F. The North Shore of NS may hit 18° C or 64.4 ° F.

I just noticed Dalvay's lie. It says 18° C is 68° F. It is 64.4° F. Adjust their claim down 3.6° F accordingly. That is ten friggin' degrees colder than off-shore Delaware at that time, which is four hours closer. Soft-shell crab...mmmm.

Sharks like warm water

Sharks at Cavendish in late August and early September when the water is warmest.

huh? higgins beach. duh?

<blockquote class="smalltext">Let us go then, you and I,<br>When the evening is spread out against the sky...</blockquote>Let's go mobile! Visit all our Delwaare pals and sing all the great Delaware anthems in the Delaware taverns. Settled by Swedes. I'm loving it - Delaware. Besides, if you guys don't go, we'll hit your sambuca the next week. I am on a 14 day tour of the USA in 2005. Ride the plastic. Magic wand! That BBQ joint you can see from the South Portland Bridge? You and me are making pigs of ourselves there! Shipyard brewery tour? This year we dive in!!!

Road trip!

Road trip 2005 booked: Paradise PA, Lewes DE, Mystic CT, Portland ME. Marine life be warned.

If I were in Ontario in July, I would go to Picton. I love curd cheese and the sand dunes are splendid.

That is a Sunday afternoon drive for us over the Glenora ferry from the Bath Road to Lake on the Mountain.