3 Road Trips out of Halifax, Nova Scotia

Cabot Trail

On a Cabot Trail / All photos by author

Carlo Alcos takes upon Peggys Cove, Guysborough, as well as a Cabot Trail.

AFTER LIVING in New York City for three months, we was ready for a small vacation. Halifax, Nova Scotia, seemed a undiluted remedy to a craziness which is a Big Apple. we pictured wilderness, lots of green, wild ocean, as well as overwhelming friendliness. Canadas Ocean Playground didnt disappoint.

While Halifax itself deserves a thousand words, Ill be articulate about removing out of it hitting a pavement for some great ol fashioned highway trips. So bound in your rental, check a mirrors, as well as make like a bakery truck (i.e., transport buns).

Follow along a routes with this minute highway map of Nova Scotia (PDF).

Peggy's Cove

Peggys Cove

1. Peggys Cove, Mahone Bay, as well as Lunenburg Day Trip

Peggys Cove is far from secret. In fact, its home to a self-proclaimed most photographed beacon in a world. Its usually about 45km from Halifax upon a South Shore.

While we was there, a male with his small boy was station upon a stone half-submerged in a lapping waters. People from a tip yelled down to him to get back. There are signs notice visitors of a danger; folks have been swept away never to be seen again. Check out this video for a scary traveller moment (the waves werent like this when we was there). Dont be a Darwin Award nominee.

Besides a lighthouse, you can browse around a small village (population: 46 as of 09) as well as visit a memorial site of Swiss Air Flight 111, which crashed into a sea circuitously in 1998, murdering all 229 passengers as well as crew. Its about a kilometer up a road. Hopefully youll be more respectful than a dual small brats using around a place yelling, Wh! at IS th is place? Its stupid!, with a relatives not doing anything.

Mahone Bay is about an hour west of Peggys Cove along a 103. Before town, pull over across a H2O for a demeanour (and a snap) of a three church steeples lined up, towering over a trees. It would be a great place to kick your feet up for a night, though is still really relaxing to just stroll a street, popping in as well as out of boutiques as well as ice thickk cream shops, as well as removing a closer demeanour during a iconic churches.

A further fifteen mins down a coast is Lunenburg. Its a home port of Bluenose II, a fishing schooner whose strange namesake is upon a Canadian dime. Unfortunately, a boat is under replacement until Mar 2012.

Lunenburg

Old Town Lunenburg

Old Town Lunenburg is upon a UNESCO World Heritage List, as well as is usually one of dual urban communities in North America to claim which eminence (the alternative being aged Quebec City).

The ancestral site sits upon a high mountain which slopes down to a marina, where Bluenose II would be docked. There are a couple of great restaurants water-side with big patios for sea views. we ate lunch during a Rum Runner Inn. There were alternative diners gorging upon all-you-can-eat mussels for $15. They looked good, as well as if them ordering mixed bowls is any indication, they contingency have tasted pretty great too.

Tip: For a great view behind to a ancestral town, expostulate around a H2O to a alternative side where a golf march is.

On a subsequent page we go to Guysborough, a rugged piece of coastline


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