Article Peggy´s Cove

Peggy´s Cove is a village about 45 km southwest of Halifax in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in the Gulf of St. Margaret. Already while driving on the road number 333, which connects the above-mentioned city with a breathtaking tourist destination, I loved nature, which, rather than being in almost the southernmost places of this beautiful country, resembled the landscape I admired in Norway. After turning off this road, after about 300 meters we are greeted by an imaginary entrance gate, consisting of an information center and a parking lot. For those who collect stamps from their travels, I must point out that they will really get their money's worth. The stamp is about 10 × 7 cm in size and really beautiful. From here we continue on foot, although you can drive even further, to the restaurant by the lighthouse (which is only another 300 meters, but we are in North America), and on the narrow road lined with colorful houses we have to be careful of (although thoughtfully driving) cars and even buses. There are only 4 named streets in the village, but one of them is called Lobster Lane, so a kind of lobster street. Lobster fishing is also one of the main traditional forms of livelihood for locals. On a small wooden pier in the bay, from where barges sail out to the open sea, we can see the special traps in which these crustaceans are caught. If you are a fan of this dish, do not miss the opportunity. If you have this delicacy at one of the local „buffets“ you will get one and a half pound (about 600g) lobster with sauce, pastries and hot potatoes in their skins for 27 CAD (that's twice what a fast food menu). In addition to refreshments, we pass several souvenir shops along the way, an art gallery (the place is also a numerous object for artists, especially painters) until we come to the restaurant near the landmark of the whole place, the lighthouse from 1868. This small rocky promontory is the motif of numerous postcards not only in the province of Nova Scotia, but also in the whole of Canada and, of course, in the siege of photographing avid tourists. One of the legends states that the bay was named after a little girl who was the only one rescued from a shipwreck, but there are more legends to the name. The village has stood here since 1811. It was also destroyed several times in connection with hurricanes and subsequent floods. In 1998, a No. 111 Swissair plane crashed in a nearby bay, commemorating several monuments in the area. We are standing on a rocky outcrop, which in ancient times was modeled by glaciers and later by the still humming sea surf. In front of us is the endless level of the ocean, which washes the shores of Europe after several thousand kilometers. An ideal place to enjoy and dream, even if the weather does not want it as we would imagine. Well, we have to get back to the car, 300 kilometers back to Moncton. We still go to see the church built in the Gothic style and then we start to swallow the return kilometers and process the impressions of this unique place.

In addition to the tourist center, the village has also become a frequent object of painters, who transfer their perceptions to the canvas here.

The rocky shores are washed by the cold waters of the bay.

A rocky outcrop with a lighthouse looks like a small anthill, along which greedy tourists move through experiences and photos.

An unmissable building in the local village is a church built in 1894 in the Gothic style.