Friday, August 6, 2010

Aug 6 – Citadel and Peggy’s Cove

We went to explore The Citadel, the fortress guarding the Halifax Harbour. We bought these annual passes for the season for all the historical sites in Parks Canada ($60 per family); this attraction alone was $24 for two people and we have used it a few other times already. There were tour guides and staff all decked in period costumes, i.e. gunners, the wife of an officer, blacksmith, etc. We walked around the star-shaped perimeter, peeked at the military museum, listened to a short concert of pipers and drummers.

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We took a tour though part of the fort.

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IMG_8221 Firing the noon day gun.

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Next we drove to see Peggy’s Cove. There were so many tourists flooding this little community; I cannot imagine living here with all the daily traffic passing through (bus loads and cars with nowhere to park).

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Everybody has to take this classic picture.

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When I saw the lighthouse, I thought, “Yawn, another lighthouse” but then when I saw massive granite boulders pitched everywhere, “helter skelter” by glaciers, carved into precarious stances from weather and water resulting in a rugged coastal seascape, so dishevelled and naturally arranged by nature.

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We sat there for hours watching the waves roll and crash on the rock formations which were like a maze; jagged, uneven, so picturesque with the fog rolling in and people scattered on different platforms like pebbles everywhere.  The Cove is reputedly named after the only survivor of a schooner that sank off the coast in 1800.

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