Linda has this great ability to wake up at
3:00 AM. This time it wasn’t the
raccoons. The screen room roof is not
real taught and the weight of all the rain collected on it collapsed the sides. Almost every side pole was bent or broken and
one of the junction pieces was snapped in two. We got it all put back in the box and it
became dumpster fodder.
The rain quit around midnight as predicted
and the skies were clear at sunup. It
looks like a good day to see what’s on the southeast coast. Linda wanted to go to a post office. We found one in Halifax. Many of the post offices in Canada are
located inside a store. In this case it
was in a drug store. Then we set the GPS
for Peggy’s Cove. GPS Jill (the voice on
the GPS) took us right through the heart of downtown Halifax. 
We followed the “Lighthouse Route” 333 to Peggy’s
Cove. The lighthouse at Peggy’s Cove is probably
the most photographed one in Canada. Not
that the lighthouse itself is that different, but the area is a granite
barons. We were like two kids climbing
over the massive pile of boulders. 
Just a few miles from Peggy’s Cove is the
location of the Swiss Air Flight 111 Memorial.
Flight 111 took off from JFK in New York on its way to Geneva, Switzerland. The pilots noticed smoke entering the cockpit
and closed the vents. They notified Air Traffic Control that they had a problem
and ATC diverted them to Halifax which was only 30 minutes away. Unfortunately they crashed into the Atlantic
ocean about five miles off shore. The
memorial is in remembrance of the 229 people onboard and in recognition of the people of
Peggy's Cove and Blandford who help in the recovery all 229 bodies. While we were there we met a couple from
Switzerland who knew some of the passengers and crew. 
Our next stop was the port of
Lunenburg. Lunenburg is home of “Bluenose”.
The original Bluenose was built in
1921. It was apparent from the start she
was not like any other schooner. She was
not only a racer but was an actual working fishing boat. Speed was important because the first boat
back with a catch brought the highest price at market. It was serious competition. She took home her first Fisherman’s Trophy in
Oct. 1921, and for the next 17 years no challenger -American or Canadian- could
wrest the title from her. She hit a reef
near Haiti in Jan. 1946 and sank.
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| Bluenose III |
In
1963 Bluenose II was built to be an ambassador for Nova Scotia. She was dismantled in 2010 and now the new
Bluenose III takes her place. The popularity
of Bluenose is evident in the reverse of the Canadian Dime, several postage
stamps and license plates.
We stayed in Lunenburg for the night.
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| The view From our Campsite |
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