Day 23 - Halifax, NS - Peggy's Cove

 

View of the small cove and local fishermen’s boats and docks.

 

Our guide talking to the owner of an antique Nautical ware shop

 

View of the entire cove looking to sea. Cove is approximately 100 ft by 700 feet.

 

Rudy and Sue Reilly at Peggy’s Cove Nova Scotia

 

The group reading the memorial to Swissair Flt 111.

 

Climbing to the hill crest at Swissair Flt 111 memorial.

 

Lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove

 

An old wash at Peggy’s Cove looking at the North Atlantic

Close view of Lighthouse

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#16 Sue & Rudy Reilly

Day 22 - Travel Day - Halifax, NS

 

With only a 51.6 mile drive today, the staff threw a breakfast party featuring coffee, tea, hot chocolate and coffee cake to round out menu. 

Thankfully the drizzly rain stopped so we could enjoy the goodies and each other company.

 

However it always pays to be prepared, right Reid.

Following breakfast names were drawn to determine the lucky winners of several door prizes.

Winner #1 - Sheila Martin, received wine glass identifiers which she will use as napkin rings

 

Winner # 2-Jon Gregg, accepted in absentia by Tome Gregg

Winner # 3 -Linda Toon, all set for going somewhere to get wifi

 

Winner # 4- Bettie Runnalls, notice the paper

 

Winner # 5 - Rudy Reilly, looking good

 

Winner # 6 – Tome Gregg, how can one family be so lucky!

 

Leaving the Lunenburg Board of Trade Campground we saw some spectacular views.

 However down the road, the weather changed a bit as you can see from this picture.

Everyone arrived safe and sound at Woodhaven RV Park, rested a bit and gathered for a social in the rec hall.(This blogger forgot her camera – the “zoolike” atmosphere at Costco must have obliterated her responsibility  from her mind- at least that’s my excuse) However the goodies were delicious. Thanks to all who brought them.

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#2 Lorna & Roger Scott

Day 21 - Lunnenberg, NS

 

Lunenburg was first settled in 1753, by number Protestant farmers from Germany and Switzerland. The British provided them with military support as it was the aim of the British to develop a strong Anglican presence in Nova Scotia.

 

The St. Johns Anglian church in Lunenburg was one of the first Protestant churches in all of Canada. 

Although the early settlers of Lunenburg were farmers, they found the land to be marginal for farming and soon became fisherman in hunt of the cod, which included the waters of the Grand Banks and Sable Island. These were treacherous waters as the town memorial erected in memory of those lost at sea dramatically documents.

Today Lunenburg continues the fishing tradition but tourism is its main economic lively hood. The town has numerous colorful pristine shops, art galleries, inns and restaurants.

We were also treated to a very informative tour of the Fisheries Museum and introduced to the history of the racing schooner the “Bluenose”, the pride of Nova Scotia.

We had plenty of time to visit the shops, enjoy the cuisine, relax and enjoy this most beautiful town.

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 #11 Greta & David Storrs

Day 20 - Travel Day - Lunnenberg, NS

 

After an evening of feasting on lobster, our next day was a short travel day; so there was time to visit Nautical Seafood, a lobster processing plant. The owner of the business provided us a tour of his plant, as well as an opportunity to buy some lobsters to fill our larder.

 

Some of the fishing fleet could be seen at low tide resting on the sea bed.

 The lobster pound is the processing and wholesale business that brings the lobster caught by the fisherman to the market and dinner table. 

The plant had an inventory of 170,000 pounds of live lobsters. The lobsters are sorted by weight on a specially designed conveyor belt. After sorting into the separate weight classes, the lobsters are ready to be packed and shipped all over Canada and the US.

 

At the end of the conveyor belt, the four to six pound beauties were piled four to five deep.

 

Most of the two and three pound lobsters are 10 to 12 years of age. These youngsters look pretty puny when compare to grand-pa who was estimated to be close to eighty years of age..

Linda looks like she has a new dance partner.

Our trip to Lunenburg took us through the interior of Nova Scotia and over some sparsely populated and challenging, rough and narrow country roads.

 

We arrived in Lunenburg to a very nice town campground. Following the social hour and travel briefing we all participated in a white “elephant gift” exchange.

A “white elephant gift” is something you have been carrying all over the country, not knowing what to do with it and can easily be shuffled off to someone else who can carry it all over the country. The gift exchange was great fun all to the tune of Spence’s right, left and do-se doh!

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 #11 David & Greta Storrs