With Malpeque Bay to the north and Bedeque Bay to the south, the area is a major flyway for waterfowl. Wellington is the departure point for exploring the culture, the crafts and the ports in the heart of the Acadian community on Prince Edward Island. Tyne Valley, just off the trail, offers fine dining, the shipbuilding museum at nearby Green Park Provincial Park and access to tiny communities scattered along several rivers flowing to the north shore. Wetlands with beaver and wetland plants like members of the orchid family are prevalent in the area. Coleman and O'Leary are both jumping-off points for the West Point Lighthouse on the western shore of the Province.
Beaches there rival any of the well-known shores in the centre of the Island.
The trail turns north-east once more into uplands, mixed farming areas and to the Town of Alberton. Alberton is the location of a second stone railway station. From here the trail swings back to the northwest across Huntley Bridge to its destination of Tignish. A memorial has been placed at DeBlois to lives lost in a train wreck earlier this century. Tignish is not far from North Cape, the tip of the Island, or Tignish Shore, a colourful fishing port on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.