Tides of the Moon
Wolfville to PEI
Our last day in Nova Scotia started with heavy grey skies and the first lighthouse of the day at Horton Bluff matched the weather's sombre mood. We found it down a dark country lane and hopped across some railway tracks to find it.
An inauspicious start to an overcast day, but it would soon get better.
We decided at this point to ditch the main highway plan, which although a faster route would have sent us nearly all the way back to Halifax. Instead we decided to hug the northern coastline and follow the Glooscap trail. Whilst it meant for a slightly longer route to our destination of Prince Edward Island it was a good decision. The coastal scenery more than made up for it, and there were more lighthouses!
Walton Harbour Lighthouse was a pretty, pepper shaker style lighthouse, which you could look inside and there was a welcoming gift shop also on the site.
Burntcoat Head Lighthouse was a lovely light on the peninsula, and again the tower was open and it also had a gift shop. Given the location, apparently at low tide you can walk out into the mud flats, the displays and shop concentrated more on the Bundy Tides phenomenon than lighthouses.
We continued along he northern coast of Nova Scotia on the Glooscap Trail and had a great view of the Bay of Bundy. According to legend, Glooscap was a giant god-like man who created the Five Islands in the Minas Basin. The islands were formed from giant clods of mud thrown by Glooscap at a disrespectful beaver........
Firmly back in reality and stopping to refuel on route through Truro we saw the Catch of the Bay market, complete with faux lighthouse by the side of the highway. It didn't count towards our lighthouse total.
Through Truro we headed north and hit the sunshine trail and the coast again, this time the Northumberland Strait.
Coldspring Lighthouse was our first stop and we met some great folk along Amherst Shore that I wrote about in an earlier blog post This must be the place (Naive Melody)
We were well into the third week of our three week tour of Canada when we crossed the spectacular Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island, the final stage of our lighthouse extravaganza. Crossing the bridge we saw three lighthouses and then several more on our route to Charlottetown, which was going to be our base for the last few days of our trip.
It boded well for our bagging on PEI.
Our last day in Nova Scotia started with heavy grey skies and the first lighthouse of the day at Horton Bluff matched the weather's sombre mood. We found it down a dark country lane and hopped across some railway tracks to find it.
An inauspicious start to an overcast day, but it would soon get better.
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| Horton Bluff Range Front Lighthouse, Nova Scotia |
We decided at this point to ditch the main highway plan, which although a faster route would have sent us nearly all the way back to Halifax. Instead we decided to hug the northern coastline and follow the Glooscap trail. Whilst it meant for a slightly longer route to our destination of Prince Edward Island it was a good decision. The coastal scenery more than made up for it, and there were more lighthouses!
Walton Harbour Lighthouse was a pretty, pepper shaker style lighthouse, which you could look inside and there was a welcoming gift shop also on the site.
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| Walton Harbour Lighthouse, Nova Scotia |
Burntcoat Head Lighthouse was a lovely light on the peninsula, and again the tower was open and it also had a gift shop. Given the location, apparently at low tide you can walk out into the mud flats, the displays and shop concentrated more on the Bundy Tides phenomenon than lighthouses.
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| Burntcoat Lighthouse, Nova Scotia |
We continued along he northern coast of Nova Scotia on the Glooscap Trail and had a great view of the Bay of Bundy. According to legend, Glooscap was a giant god-like man who created the Five Islands in the Minas Basin. The islands were formed from giant clods of mud thrown by Glooscap at a disrespectful beaver........
Firmly back in reality and stopping to refuel on route through Truro we saw the Catch of the Bay market, complete with faux lighthouse by the side of the highway. It didn't count towards our lighthouse total.
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| Catch of the Bay Market, Nova Scotia |
Coldspring Lighthouse was our first stop and we met some great folk along Amherst Shore that I wrote about in an earlier blog post This must be the place (Naive Melody)
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| Coldspring Lighthouse, Nova Scotia |
We were well into the third week of our three week tour of Canada when we crossed the spectacular Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island, the final stage of our lighthouse extravaganza. Crossing the bridge we saw three lighthouses and then several more on our route to Charlottetown, which was going to be our base for the last few days of our trip.
It boded well for our bagging on PEI.
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