Advertisement
Published: July 15th 2011
Edit Blog Post
We woke up late 8am. We packed up our bags stored them in a storage room and headed off to the Citadel but didn't make it. Unfortunately Sarah was VERY hungry so we first stopped at Smittys for breakfast - I didn't want any because of the 2 donuts, 1 danish, a huge bowl of raising bran with Blueberries and the 3 cups fo coffee I had just had. - Sarah had a great time with her poached eggs +++. The garden s were very nice and peaceful and old (the last Victorian Garden in Canada) - a lot of workers taking care of the beds etc.! We wandered all over trying out my GPS only to find that I had is programmed it and we were walking in circles. We quickly got it going right and headed for the car rental. Our car is going to be at least 3 more days so we are renting and using some of our points!! We wnadered across the Citadel they were setting up for the Mettalica concert that is happening on Sat.. The Citadel is pretty incredible a fort sat up there to protect the city what a great view of the
harbour..
We got the Ford Fiesta and then our bags at the South Park Garden Inn and followed the GPS and map to head south to Peggys cove. ONce we go to the outskirts of Halifax we hit the coastline and followed much of it SE through swamp, lakes, flatland, scrub pine to finally turn off into Peggys cove. I was surprised many of the homes were quite away from teh water and there were people everywhere. We drove right out to the lighthouse adn foind a great carpark then walked back through the town and along the water. If you could see beyond the people it really s a quaint village. The buildings are in great shape and the locals are trying to make a penny by selling crafts and trinkets. The fishing boats, nets, wharfs and old abondoned skiffs were very pretty and I took piles of pictures. The rocks along the shore were really interesting - look granitic but on closer look were apallite and pegmatite (the biotite was replace with tormalline). There was obvious glacial scraping and erratics everywhere!
We headed south again alone the coastline and saw numerous little fishing village/cottages along the
way to Lunenbery! The coastline shows a lot of money - big homes and big boats buoyed in the coves. The richest little area was in Mahone Bay - beautiful spot just a few km from Lunenbery our destination. We tried to buy a cooler and a pair of shoes (they are in our car that is stuck in Kenora) with no luck.
Lunenberg what a gem!!! A fishing village that was very successful first populated in the 1750's+/-. There had never been a fire in the town so all the building still stand - and there are dozens of them! From the water front back for 10 or more streets the homes are as the were built. Of course the new owners have fixed most of them up significantly but over 25% of them were just covered in vinyl siding and are waiting to be unwrapped. We are staying in a place called the 1826 Maplebird House $115 a night pretty typical price. 2 exBrits own and run the place and it has been rebuilt structurally and internally. Barry adn Suzie are their names.
Sarah and I were still looking for our good feed of sea food
and we sure found it here at a little place called The Grand Banker. We had Seafood stew and it had Haddock, shrimp and scallops and mussels - it was the best!!! We wandered the town afterward looking at the sights like a boat unloading buckets and buckets of scallops. We also checked out the Knot Pub for food (not so great, pub grub)for another night.
The walk back to our bed was uneventful. good nnight!
Advertisement
Tot: 0.128s; Tpl: 0.011s; cc: 5; qc: 44; dbt: 0.039s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb