Lunenburg & Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia (Road Trip Day 56)

Today we explored along the Bay from Rose Bay to Peggy’s Cove. We started with breakfast at Rose Bay General Store (and Bistro). Then it was over to Lunenburg which is called the prettiest town in Canada. I will say it is a very colorful and pretty town. It is an artist’s colony of sorts, and can you imagine a colony of artists not beautifying their community? This photo is from the town’s website:

                                    Joe and I both loved the colors of the buildings. Fun!
 

I took some other photos of Lunenburg.

In addition to site seeing, we stopped at a bookstore to buy postcards for Charlotte and Caleb. A trip to the post office to mail the postcards. It costs 83 United States cents ($1.17 Canadian) to mail a postcard from Canada to the United States. The postcards themselves only cost 72 United States cents (98 cents Canadian). It was worth it though as we thought it would be cool for the grandchildren to get a Canadian stamp and postmark. Also, I won’t have to remember to mail them when we get back to the states.

From Lunenburg we made our way north to Peggy’s Cove. We made a stop along the way at the Swissair Flight 111 Memorial in Bayswater. Two hundred twenty-nine people perished in the crash on September 2, 1998, when the plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean at the entrance to St. Margaret’s Bay. While at the memorial site we met a man, Steve, visiting from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Steve went to high school and college in Minnesota. We chatted for about thirty minutes. He said that parts of Lake Superior remind him of St. Margaret’s Bay plus the climate is very similar.

We then drove on to Peggy’s Cover to take our own photo of Peggy’s Lighthouse, it is claimed to have been photographed more than any other lighthouse in the world. Joe and I both took a photograph, and I am sharing Joe’s photo.

When we started out this morning, I took a couple of photos of the beautiful view near our campground. I am also including a Google satellite view of where we are camping.

Finally, a few photos from our breakfast at Rose Bay Café and Bistro. The décor is simple with handmade tables from local wood and pretty lights. I tried something a bit different for breakfast. French toast with Brie, bacon, candied walnuts, and maple syrup. My friend Kim Farina would have enjoyed the meal. The food photo is for her.

Oops! It seems that my breakfast photo is really a video. It's short though!