Monday, August 6, 2012

July 30 - Aug 3 Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

Weather Warm about 80 and cool at night 65, two rain days
Trying to find Big Rig friendly campgrounds in the Lunenburg area is a hard one, but we did find a spot called Little Lake Campground that fixed us up with a couple of spots; the owners were the sweetest people you have ever met.
Your surrounded by water out here and we had a storm move in from Boston that stayed in the area for a couple of days.  We did some reading and baking and R&R.   The first day out we were in Lunenburg when we spotted this license plate.  Isn't it the best!
No Boss, No Mortgage, No Worries, No Paycheck.  "Retired".  We laughed about it for the rest of the day.

There is a beautiful coastline scenic road from Lunenburg to Peggy's Cove.  It weaves in and out of the small little fishing harbours and stays right on the waters edge most of the way.  Everything is rolling and green and then a couple of miles before you get to Peggy's Cove the terrain changes drastically to large rock formations and boulders all of granite.  The Cove is still a very sparse old fishing town with a bit of touristy stuff thrown in, but not too much. 



Just a few miles down the coastline is the memorial for the Swissair flight that went down out in the water and 229 people lost their lives - no survivors.  It had every name engraved on two stone markers that pointed out to the trajectory of where the plane went down.  From the rocky outcrop where I am standing you can see Peggy's Cove in the distance.
One thing that amazes us is how "fat" the seagulls are!!!!   Look at this guy.

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