Peggy's Cove

We had a beautiful fall day for our road trip to Peggy's Cove.  It is about 45 minutes from our campground, which is right outside of Halifax.

The drive along the coast is very beautiful with fall colours and sparkling blue water on the lakes and harbours along the coast.    This was the nicest it has been in days - we have been having quite a few rainy, foggy days.

Peggy's Cove is a tiny town, less than 40 houses, a few stores, and a visitor centre.  The lighthouse protrudes out into the ocean on a huge mass of granite.  During the last few ice ages, the rock has been formed into boulders, covered with cracks and crannies.  Sean was bounding over them like Spiderman!!  There are a few dangerous spots, but mostly it just made for interesting climbing.  Even the dogs enjoyed it!  We must have spent almost an hour just walking around, and then sitting and watching the waves crash and swirl against the rocks. 

We had heard earlier that there were three cruise ships coming into Halifax today, which is why we decided to head out of town.  Unfortunately we were not familiar with the cruise ship "road trip" phenomena....pack all the blue haired crowd onto big tour busses and take them
out of town.  When we arrived at the cove, there was probably 7 tour busses there, and by the time we left there were at least 25.  Luckily for us, the aforementioned senior set do not really like hiking over huge boulders, so we could pretend that we had the area to ourselves.

Unfortunately when we came up off the rocks, there they all were!!!!  The gift shop was absolutely full ( so no miniature lighthouses for us!)

Sean found this ledge, which was about 20 feet up above where we are.  They looked like a pair birds sitting up on a perch.