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One last full day in the Halifax area. Today was going to be our old towns and lighthouse day.

The plan was to drive down quickly to Lunenburg - a UNESCO World Heritage site as it is has been a well preserved British colonial settlement. 

Heidi and Kai on the dock

jellyfish swimming alone

view of the town from afar

Another small town is Mahone Bay. It wasn't as pretty as Lunenberg, but it did have this small fairy walk.

When I told some people I was going to Nova Scotia, they asked if I was going to Oak Island. Apparently there is rumor of treasure buried there. I believe it was a History Channel show. The island is closed to visitors apparently.

One thing that I had forgotten about was the Swissair Flight 111 crash in the late 90's. The flight crashed at sea just offshore. There is a memorial along the drive. The area near Peggy's Cove and another community helped with the clean up effort of the flight. Kind of a quiet, solemn spot.

The memorial consists a few large rocks.

And finally, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse. It was a beautiful day today when we got there around 4PM. We barely got a parking spot - I can't imagine what it is like in July and August. We spoke to a local, he said one cruise ship was seen today, but in the height of summer, normally 3 cruise ships full of people come to visit.

The rocks were really big, and fun to walk around and enjoy the scenery. I could have easily spent 2 hours just walking around. I was able to get a few of the rocks to put in my backyard.

Here is the picture that the local took of us. He did a great job on the photo.

Finally, a video - I thought it would be good at showing the full scene.

We haven't had a proper seafood meal here, so the local we asked said the Food Factory would be good. It actually was about perfect. A nice outdoor meal of Lobster Roll under an umbrella.

we liked the inflatable lobster

nice music outside as well

$29 lobster roll, but I never regret paying for an experience

Tomorrow we hit the road. I'm hoping we can visit the Fundy National Park (all Canadian National Parks are free for the summer). Should be another nice day.