Final night of this trip

It's all over but the flying!!

Today was our last day to sight see so off we went on the secondary highways along the east coast road (which is essentially north of Dartmouth).On the way we got lost (google maps saved us again!) and missed getting on highways we wanted but found others that were very interesting. We stopped at a beach near Lawrencetown and watched people surfing (there was a surfing school truck there to teach people).

A short while later we passed by a very well known animal rescue place called "Hope for Wildlife". I regularly watch a TV show that is filmed there. We didn't go in however.

We drove through Dartmouth and over to Halifax before 1 P.M. and shortly after took the car back to Enterprise Car Rental, I took many photos of the car just in case they try to pin damage on us (there isn't any!).

I reset the trip odometer about 80 kms after we left Halifax two weeks ago and I see that we did just over 4000 kilometers. Gas averaged about $1.26/litre and the car used 6 l/100km.

We are tired but happy, and can honestly say that we have seen what we wanted to see.

Back in Halifax

We slept fantastic last night and after a nice breakfast we were on our way back to Lunenburg. We spent a good ninety minutes at the awesome museum on the waterfront. This museum was all about the fishing industry and included aquariums with fish from this part of the world.

We tagged along on a tour and got to listen to how fishing in the old days used to happen and the photo above is a fishing dorry and was a big part of the world of those fishermen.

We saw the sailboat we were on last night leave for a day tour so I got a photo of it under sail.

After eating homemade ice cream we drove all the historical downtown streets of this amazing town oogling all the neat houses. Oh my, but we love the old houses here!

We left Lunenburg by 2 P.M. and headed down the old highway like we have been doing a lot lately. Our ultimate target location was Peggy's Cove which was a couple of hours away on the slow back highways. On the way we came upon the location of the 20th anniversary remembrance of the SwissAir disaster. We stopped by for a few minutes and listened to some ministers/priests. There were family members there of deceased victims and the TV cameras were there too as it is big news. We did not stay long.

Peggy's Cove was busy but not too overwhelming. We snapped quite a few photos but 30 minutes there was enough.

 An hour drive later we were at the airport Quality Inn which is our home for two nights.

A wonderful day!

Bridgeview Nova Scotia

After accidentally deleting my first attempt at today's blog here goes attempt number two!

Our B+B companions (in the other bedroom) were a couple from Switzerland. They owned a steel tube manufacturing company and had a couple of factories around the world and owned homes in several locations. Very interesting to talk to. Caro and I had booked this B+B knowing we had share the bathroom (not something we normally do) but we won't be doing this again because Caro was still not well and it wasn't very comforting knowing the bathroom might be occupied when we needed it. Also we didn't have showers because it was inconvenient.

After a short while driving boring side roads we got on the main highway and were soon in Liverpool. Our first stop was the Queen Anne County museum which explained a lot of the local privateers story,especially in the time of the 1812 war. Very cool. Also there were 3 handkerchiefs that were pulled from the sea by a sailor searching for survivors of the Titanic

For some reason I can't rotate this image : (

From there we stumbled on to the Wile Carding Mill Museum which was an completely unexpected pleasure seeing how wool used to be made ready for use making products. It really was cool.

Next we were off to Bridgewater where we had booked a Days Inn for tonight. We were both exhausted and soon after our 2:30 check-in I was asleep. Ninety minutes later we drove over to Lunenburg. There is a reason this town is a UNESCO site. Oh boy, it is gorgeous.

We got to town about 5 and booked a 6:30 sunset cruise on a real sailboat, and while waiting for the tour we (actually me-as Caro is still unsure of how she would feel on the sailboat) ate fish and chips. The sail was awesome and I volunteered to help hoist the main sail. A sailor at last!!!!

It was dark as we drove to our hotel.  Tomorrow we are back to Lunenburg.