Mark and Nicola: Day 23

Today we made it from Baddeck to just past Peggy's Cove where we camped for the night. It was a nice relaxing day of driving along the east coast of Nova Scotia and taking in all the great views. We stopped in Halifax and explored the waterfront area for a while before continuing on to Peggy's Cove. It was the Natal day celebration in Halifax so when we arrived basically everything had closed but I think we'd missed most of the celebrating so we didn't really stay for very long. Peggy's Cove is one of the most photographed areas in Canada, and it was extremely busy, crawling with other tourists. The lighthouse is what everybody comes to see and take pictures of so we did the same. The little town itself is also something worth seeing, a charming little fishing village nestled on the rocks of the cove featuring a small group of brightly coloured east coast homes. As you drive past Peggy's Cove there are countless other little communities all built up around small rocky coves. Everybody has a nice little house on the water, a private dock, and there were a lot of sail boats anchored in the middle of every cove, it was really quite nice. Also just past the cove is the memorial for SwissAir Flight 111 which crashed in the Atlantic Ocean in 1998, Peggy's Cove was the closest town to the crash site and was used as a rescue center.