Peter And Evie - Travel blog: June 24, 2023 - Peggy's Cove, NS, and Halifax city tour

June 24, 2023

This morning's tour to Peggy's Cove, on the rocky coast of Nova Scotia was FANTASTIC! On a huge, rocky promontory, it has a beautiful lighthouse, light wind, huge waves hitting the rocks, and lots of amazing rocks to climb onto and overlook the ocean. They even had a Scottish man playing the bagpipes. We had time to explore, climb, and just hang out and enjoy the area. It was great. Just my kind of place.

The afternoon was spent back in Halifax. We had a guided tour around the city. We stopped at the
Fairview lawn Cemetery, where the graves of those lost on the Titanic are buried. This was closest to where the Titanic was shipwrecked, so they are all buried in one area. Many of the dead were identified, but not all.

Our next stop was at the Citadel. This time we got a tour of the inside of the fort, and a lecture on its history. Then on to the Botanical Gardens, where we had some free time to stroll around them. The weather was very pleasant, and since Peter & I had already done this, we just sort of hung out for a bit.

Our last stop was at the Pier 21 Immigration Museum. Halifax was an ocean liner terminal and the gateway to Canada for immigrants. It was the "immigration shed" from 1928 to 1971. The museum explores what the immigration experience was like, from the ships full of immigrants, to the customs in Halifax, to the trains to their final destination. We had a very good and knowledgeable speaker, giving us the tour.

Dinner and the evening was on our own, so we walked the boardwalk along the harbor, again, this time with John, Joyce and Freddie, some of our co-Road Scholars. There were lots of people, and lots more boats on the water than we have seen in all of Canada.

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