EPILOGUE: A Delicate Balance / since 2000

Vintage postcards give vanished features along the Island’s coastline a certain immortality. Pulpit Rock at Kildare Capes, the Three Sisters near Campbellton, the Lone Rock at Cavendish, Table Rock near Bedeque – all live on in postcards even though the landmarks themselves have worn away. Of all these lost features, none achieved more celebrity than Elephant Rock. Sometime around 1990, people spotted a pachyderm just offshore, not far from North Cape. Since Western Prince County was a corner of the Island that did not see many tourists, and the provincial government was always on the lookout for new ways to