World's Highest Tides

Trip Start Jun 24, 2006
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Trip End Jul 03, 2006


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Where I stayed
Pelessier Hotel
(Truro hotels)

Flag of Canada  , Nova Scotia,
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

After a slow moving morning we drove further along the coast to Peggy's Cove, a highly recommended place that lived up to its name. A small fishing village with artist colony potential boasting the only post office in a lighthouse, it was an inevitable tourist trap, although a charming one at that.
We stopped for the day in Truro, northwest of Halifax (which we bypassed completely). It was a little anticlimatic after Lunenberg but we did find some interesting things. First was our hotel. The Pelessier was an older roadside motel that I found had a lot of local character. It was also just a few steps from the Tidal Bore, a natural phenomenon where the tide comes in quickly to fill the riverbed and then recedes. Amazing to watch. The weather turned quite warm and windy, and that along with a long day of driving created the perfect elements for gin and tonics. Afterwards, we drove over to Victoria Park, a 1000 acre land area that was very well designed with walking/running/biking trails culminating in a waterfall/swimming hole. If not for the bugs and our impending appetites we could have walked around for hours in there. We had dinner at the restaurant adjoining the motel, which was a pleasant surprise.
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