August 4
After breakfast, we drove around the cove to view Shelbourne. It was pouring rain (and it continued to pour for a couple of hours), but the town is beautiful with well-preserved period houses. Literature says it’s a Hidden Gem, and I agree:
We’ve noticed a lot of monuments to those who have died at sea in many of the villages we’ve passed through on this coast:
Here’s a View of the View on the wharf:
We passed through Shag Harbour (site of the 1967 UFO crash and sinking-sorry, no time to stop at the UFO Museum) and pulled in to Lunenburg in time for lunch.
We decided to ride our bikes along a Rail Trail into town from the Board of Trade Campground (Site 26. $85 for two nights). We got some great pictures along the harbour (including of the Bluenose II which has exceeded its budget and will not sail this year!)
We had dinner at the Fish Shack:
And, no, it wasn’t a Lobster Dinner (Fish ‘n Chips, though), but they give you a lobster which lights up and vibrates when your order is ready:
August 5
We decided on a road trip today so headed up and down Lighthouse Trail between here and Peggy’s Cove.
We stopped in Mahone Bay and caught the famous three steeples from far and near:
Mahone Bay and Chester, in fact much of the Nova Scotia South Shore so far, is beautiful but much more developed and “rich” than the roads we love in Newfoundland (Maybe we’re just spoiled).
On one road, we came across the Swiss Air Memorial in Bayswater, one of the three points that mark the 1998 crash site. It was beautiful and quiet, and we would have missed it had we not taken this route:
We made it to Peggy’s Cove (we were there in 1993, and it is much more commercial and busy than those days). We stayed a very short while and took the typical tourist pics:
When we got back, I took a walk down into Old Lunenburg and took pictures until the battery died:
This was a nice stay. And here’s the view from my chair:
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