Peggy's Cove

We drove on up the coast toward Halifax, stopping at one of Canada's more-photographed sites, Peggy's Cove, named for a young woman who washed up there after a ship-wreck; see below. It's one of those places best viewed in light wind and rain and fog, we thought.

The story...

Glacial erratics everywhere; we're not accustomed to seeing them on shorelines

Mahon Bay, Nova Scotia

I'm sure there are many things of interest and note in Mahon Bay, which is around the bend from Lunenburg. It is a pretty place, despite the rain. But we drove through during the annual town-wide scarecrow festival, in full swing, and had to take pix. They need no description...

Best in show, we thought

Many of these pix taken for grand-daughter P

Gotta like Mahon Bay!

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

The day after Grand Pre we drove from Nova Scotia's Bay side to its Atlantic side to see another World Heritage site, the town of Lunenburg. Lunenburg was chosen as an exemplar of British colonial towns and for its well-preserved buildings. I'll let the pix speak mostly for themselves.

The thing that caught our eyes was this beautiful
old Anglican church, St. John's

Many old houses and buildings of note

A little reminiscent of Dublin...

Dollar Store (Loonie=$CA1, Toonie=$CA2)

In a collectible store; we stimulated the local
economy modestly

Art Nouveau bank, early 1900s; not part of the
World Heritage thing, presumably

Nearby city bench

Not sure whether the paint colors match the 18th
century originals...

Harbor view

Interesting place; better without the rain!

Grand Pre

Grand Pre is another Nova Scotia World Heritage Site, in this case celebrating the French Acadian community in Nova Scotia which was driven away following the so-called French and Indian War, which the French lost. Quel dommage. The Acadians, some of them, went south and became the Cajuns of Louisiana. Much was lost in translation. All this is celebrated, however, in Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline, which, as every school boy/girl knows, was written in dactylic hexameter, Homer's meter. At Grand Pre, the Acadians built a dike against the Bay of Fundy and reclaimed considerable farm land, still tilled. For us, it was a somewhat brief visit, since the visitor center had already closed. The hour was late and smoke already was rising from the mountain of doom....

Helpful illustration

Bay of Fundy from Grand Pre plage...low tide

Thus

Reclaimed land

Community church

Of course sea level can vary considerably here; mean sea level?

We proceeded on....