Road trip with my grandmother

One thing I had on my spring adventure list was to do a road trip with my grandmother and a couple weeks ago, we made that happen. As you know I have been doing lots of travelling around Nova Scotia the last number of years and I have told my grandparents about all the trips I've done so my grandmother asked me if I would take her on one of my next road trips. I've been to the south shore a few times but we decided to go because there was still things I wanted to see. 

As I posted earlier in the week, my grandmother came down to Halifax on the bus and we spent the afternoon in the city. You can see that post here. The next day, we woke up around 7:30 in the morning and headed south on the 103 highway. We had originally booked a puffin tour that left from Peggy's Cove for this morning but the company emailed me a couple nights before to say they had to cancel because of mechanical issues. The puffin tour was the one thing we both really wanted to do but we licked our wounds and were able to visit Carter's Beach instead. This beach is past Liverpool and has been called Nova Scotia's Caribbean paradise. It has beautiful white sand and pretty clear blue water on a nice day but the downside is the water is not warm. It was well worth the 2 hour drive there even though we only spent half an hour looking around. On our way up we did a detour to the community of Hubbards which was pretty too. 

After the beach, we went back to Liverpool for lunch and to check out the Fort Point Lighthouse. You can go inside this lighthouse and even upstairs to see the lamp that powered the light back then. There is a little museum on the main floor and you can hear from the keepers in a video that plays on the second floor. Then we continued on to Lunenburg where we checked into our bed and breakfast, unpacked and had a nap before going back out for the evening. For supper, we went to The Dockside where I got mussels - can't go to a fishing town without getting seafood.

 

The Bluenose II (which was made in Luneneburg and is on our dime) was in port so we were able to go on the deck to check it out. It is a very nice vessel and the crew seemed to be happy that they are able to open the decks again after a two year absence. 

On Saturday, my grandmother and I had reservations for the Lunenburg Walking Tour which I have done before. The site said it would be an hour long but the tour ended up being 2 hours long though it was still great to walk around and learn about the history of the town so we finished just before noon. We were planning on going to the fisheries museum but I wanted to go to Mahone Bay still and I still had two hours of driving before I would get home so we just went straight to the bay. We ate at the Mug & Anchor Restaurant in Mahone Bay then walked around for a bit before stopping at an ice cream shack.