Day 2 in Nova Scotia…Peggy’s Cove and Around (a long post!)

Ok, don’t you love this color pattern?!! It’s the carpet outside our room in the hall! It’s a little deeper in color than it looks here…rich looking =)

This is why we’re here! Lloyd has to service his equipment there. See that very LARGE, TALL bridge in the background? Yeah…we have to go over it! 

Just breathe…I HATE high stuff like this, it just about sends me into a panic attack! I closed my eyes not long after this!

This, oh, just a little side trip because we didn’t turn the way Tomtom said…all those containers,and cranes! WoW!

 

Alrighty then…on to Peggy’s Cove!!

Now, you can’t get the full awesomeness of these giant rocks that surround the area…they’re massive! How did they form? Collision of crustal plates beneath the ocean floor forced molten material to the surface, which solidified as greyish-white coarse grain granite.

Looking straight down.

See the guy in the upper right corner? Tiny person!…GIANT rocks!!

Peggy’s Cove restaurant…this is gingerbread with whipped cream…YUM!!

If you click on the picture it will get a little larger and hopefully you’ll be able to read the story.

Yes, I like lighthouses!!
Just trying to get all angles for you
and me too.
Temp was 56

 

Honest…it’s big!
Ok, so we had to play a little…

Flowers! Growing in the cracks of these boulders!

   

While we were here at the docks, we were talking about just what do you do around here?…quite a few small houses with very small yards. “Oh, let’s go up to the Lighthouse and climb on the rocks”…yeah, seems like that would get old quick!
Although we did think what fun the grandkids would have playing on the rocks.
About that time a boat came in and docked…a local family with 2 kids, they got off the boat and as they were walking past us the son who looked about 10 or so said, “hey Dad, can I go play on the rocks?”! We laughed!! They really do just play on them for fun!!

Just looking down into the water.

  Just one of the hundreds of lobster traps!!

Whale bone outside a shop.

  At the age of 70, a local artist started carving this tribute in stone!

 

And from here we say good-bye to Peggy’s Cove, an awesome place if you ever get the chance to visit!

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Before we left the hotel today, Lloyd looked up a Geo Cache…sure enough there was one not far from the cove!
The title was “Pioneer, a grave situation” (or something like that).

The marker was just at the edge of the highway, but the coordinates led way back into the trees.
Lloyd looked all around but never found the cache =(  

I went back to the truck and decided that this would be my summer home…one of them, maybe both if I get bored!

Quite different from the houses back at the cove!

 

A long post, but I wanted to share so much!! Hope you enjoyed it, sorry I couldn’t include the crashing of the waves and the smell of the salty air!

Thanks for stopping!!

Dawn