June 29, 2018...Site Seeing around Lunenburg, NS

June 29, 2018

I day of site seeing just outside of Lunenburg. To give an idea of some of the crazy things you can see when you just go driving around without a specific destination in mind…that’s what makes it fun!!

 Found: One small fishing village

 Nova Scotia is very rocky, and each shoreline we see seems to have a different variation.

 This house along the shore seems to speak to the fishermen of the past.

Where do you want to go??? This upstanding 'map' may help??

Interesting yard art

Came across this house advertising 'Folk Art'

 Across the street a church with an unusual steeple

Back to the 'Folk Art'....this is the artist work shop

About the size of a one car garage I think...

Samples of his art

The cow jumps over the moon...

Mama cow got first place for her pie

The artist

Looks a little out of plumb doesn't it?

The poles and line don't help, but doesn't look like there is a right angle

Nova Scotia's gold rush site.

At the snack shop

Don't know who they are or what they are looking for...maybe sea glass??? Maybe gold???

This explains what happened here. Phil went up and down all the steps, I stayed up at the snack bar in the shade, it was another hot one!

The Bluenose II sails by the Ovens

Sea caves made by the consistent pounding of the sea

This stairwell looks a little dangerous!!

Who goes down, must go back up...

I wonder how long it will be before the land above the caves will be completely undermined??

The end of the trail

June 27, 2018 Lunenburg and Bluenose II

June 27, 2018

We continued our trip around the southern shores of Nova Scotia to Lunenburg. This is one of my most favorite places. Lunenburg was a fishing village back in the day, with a deep, natural harbor it was a perfect setting for the tall sailing ships of bygone days. In 1920, the Halifax Herald Newspaper established a race for active fishing vessels, Lunenburg designed and built the Bluenose, a sleek 2 masted, 146 feet long. Built for fishing, with racing in mind. After she was launched in March, 1921, she did a season of fishing, then entered the International Fisherman’s Race, and brought the trophy home to Lunenburg. For the next 17 years of racing, no challenger, Canadian or American could wrest the trophy from her and she was dubbed the “Queen of the North Atlantic”. The Bluenose met her watery grave in 1946, hauling freight off the coast of Haiti.

In the 1960’s, the brewery of Oland and Sons was planning to build a replica of a fishing schooner to represent their new product, “Schooner Beer”. The result was the Bluenose II, built from the original plans, at the same ship builders in Lunenburg and some of the same craftsmen. She was started in Feb of 1963 and finished in July of that same year. She was then sold to Nova Scotia and serves as an ambassador of goodwill and tourist attraction for Lunenburg. No racing or fishing for her.

When we were in Lunenburg in 2012, the Bluenose II was in dry dock for maintenance, so we only got to view her from a distance. But, this time she was in port and we were able to purchase tickets for a two- hour sail! It was very windy the day of our sail, perfect for a trip on a tall ship! What an experience!!

 She is so big that it is next to impossible to get a shot of all of her, so here she is, sort of in pieces.

If only I could get my wood floors to look this good!!

 We pass a lighthouse during our cruise

This is the Lunenburg Fisheries Memorial, just outside of the Fisheries Museum