Day 8 – June 22, 2008
Leaving Bridgewater this morning we find a gem of a sight on the Lahave river. There was a "retired" naval ship (a destroyer we think) docked about 100 ft off the highway. So we had to stop and check it out. We then continued past these cute little towns and took the Lighthouse route on to Lunenburg. This drive was beautiful filled with ocean and rocky views with a splattering of houses and old barns and you guessed it - Lighthouses. We stopped in Lunenburg, a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful setting for a town of old buildings and churches,
but that’s it. Lots of souvenir shops and restaurants and an interesting Maritime Fishieries Museum where Lucas got to hold a starfish, and we learned how to spell our names with the color coded flags.
Leaving Bridgewater this morning we find a gem of a sight on the Lahave river. There was a "retired" naval ship (a destroyer we think) docked about 100 ft off the highway. So we had to stop and check it out. We then continued past these cute little towns and took the Lighthouse route on to Lunenburg. This drive was beautiful filled with ocean and rocky views with a splattering of houses and old barns and you guessed it - Lighthouses. We stopped in Lunenburg, a Unesco World Heritage Site. It is a beautiful setting for a town of old buildings and churches,
but that’s it. Lots of souvenir shops and restaurants and an interesting Maritime Fishieries Museum where Lucas got to hold a starfish, and we learned how to spell our names with the color coded flags. We proceeded onto Mahone Bay, a lovely little town along the bay. Again a beautiful setting for a town of old buildings and churches. Plenty of souvenir shops and restaurants. On to Peggy’s Cove. It took us a lot longer taking this route as the road winds all over – beautiful ocean vistas, but really rough road. The fog began to roll in about 15 mins before we got to the famous Peggy’s Cove. Didn’t get to see a lot because of the fog, but got some really nice misty foggy pictures. We lodged at Port Hastings in Cape Breton for the night. This little town is just across the Canso Causeway (land crossing which joins Nova Scotia mainland to Cape Breton).
Cool Facts we learned:
1) Lunenburg was the 1st British Settlement outside of Halifax. Est. 1753.
2) Tuna and the Mackerel shark are the only warm blooded fish.
3) Some Bay of Fundy commercial fisherman don’t even need a boat. They set poles with nets in the sand during low tide, the tide comes in (30-50 feet high), and then at the next low tide they drive a tractor out to the net and pull the fish off the net.
4) Mahone Bay is named on of Canada’s best small-town downtowns, on a bay of more than 100 islands.
5) Peggy’s Cove was so narrow, the fisherman enlarged the entrance in the 1900’s. Using large boats at low tide, they loaded dynamite into the bedrock bottom. After the explosion, the high tides helped lift the heavy boulder, which were then towed out to sea.
Lucas’ Statement: Did you know that… the largest tuna ever caught was 679 kilograms (1,500 pounds), which was caught off the coast of Nova Scotia.
Cool Facts we learned:
1) Lunenburg was the 1st British Settlement outside of Halifax. Est. 1753.
2) Tuna and the Mackerel shark are the only warm blooded fish.
3) Some Bay of Fundy commercial fisherman don’t even need a boat. They set poles with nets in the sand during low tide, the tide comes in (30-50 feet high), and then at the next low tide they drive a tractor out to the net and pull the fish off the net.
4) Mahone Bay is named on of Canada’s best small-town downtowns, on a bay of more than 100 islands.
5) Peggy’s Cove was so narrow, the fisherman enlarged the entrance in the 1900’s. Using large boats at low tide, they loaded dynamite into the bedrock bottom. After the explosion, the high tides helped lift the heavy boulder, which were then towed out to sea.
Lucas’ Statement: Did you know that… the largest tuna ever caught was 679 kilograms (1,500 pounds), which was caught off the coast of Nova Scotia.
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