Thursday, April 30, 2009

Halifax to Bridgewater

After a long sleep and a good sleep in, we headed for Peggy's cove and Lunenburg, luckily we only had to go 165km so we were in no rush at all.
The drive to Peggy's cove took us back through the city and out to the coast,
We arrived at Peggy's cove to a few more people then we where use to, I guess the nice day had something to do with that, we looked around the town and then drove to the end of the road and walked to the light house and walked around on the rocks, and as we walked more people turned up. This is believed to be to most photographed places in Canada, but you have to wonder why really as it is only a town of 60 people and a point with a light house on it. The rocks at the point are different, they are granite that has been grounded down by glaciers so they are all rounded and not sharp.
From Peggy's cove we drove along the coast to the memorial for the Swiss air flight that crashed into the sea just off the coast here.
The coast line was amazing and not being half asleep we found it more enjoyable.
We next arrived in Lunenburg parked the car and walked around and looked at the Bluenose II and the other ships that were there, although the area around the water front is a UNESCO world heritage site, it was alright and as usual most of the things were not open as it was still the winter season, well that day the temperature got to 30 degrees if that is not summer what is.
The bluenose II is an exact copy of a ship build in 1921 to race for a trophy for fishing boats, the new boat takes people out on tours and is a very nice looking boat, and so famous in Canada it is on the 10cent coin.
From Lunenburg we headed to Bridgewater and the B&B we where staying in, as we drove onto Bridgewater there was a frigate sitting in the river rusting slowly and it turns out it was brought to either turn into a restaurant of sink for diving on but it is the only one of it's kind now so the government has brought it back from the guy. And the ships name is the HMCS FRASER, now that is odd.
We found the B&B talked to the owners for a bit about some of the things we had seen in our travels then went looking for food,
After dinner we headed back to the B&B and talked again to the owners about NZ before headed to bed.

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