CHUCK IN A BOX

Tommy, Joey, and I at Peggy

Yesterday Jackie, Uncle Tommy’s friend, took us out to Peggy’s Cove.  The drive was great, the leaves are really changed here versus home and, a lot of them have already fallen off the trees.  I love the white birch trees with their brilliant white, peeling bark and their bright yellow/orange leaves.

Peggy’s Cove is a really quaint fishing village on the coast.  It is also one of THE most photographed places in Canada too.  It was very, very cold (well to us Southerners anyway) but the waves were not too bad.  Jackie warned us not to go onto the rocks because many people have been swept off of them to their demise.  The lighthouse is smaller than I thought it would be, only a few stories tall.  Many photos were taken and we had lunch in the gift shop/restaurant overlooking the water.  I had my first ‘fish burger’ it was actually VERY good and it was served with steak fries…..yummy!

After we left Peggy’s Cove, we drove a bit further down the coast to see the Swissair monument.  A Swissair flight crashed some years ago in Peggy’s Cove and the monument was to the residents who assisted with the rescue and housed and fed the many family, friends, and rescue workers that dealt with the tragedy.  It’s a beautiful monument overlooking the water and surrounded by the stark, yet beautiful coastline of Nova Scotia.

Swissair monument near Peggy

After that we drove back to Halifax, ordered a pizza and watched Elizabeth The Golden Age before I retired back to my hotel room.  I felt sort of bad that they made the bed and cleaned everything up since I’m there for the week but, I guess that’s just what they do in the hospitality industry.