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From "The first year of retirement"

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PIGGYROUND

Walks around Peggy's Cove

Walter A. Aue, July 2001


Peggy's Cove is for the tourists. The area around it is for the locals.
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. The lighthouse does have a light - but it is for tourists only.

See the light?

. An old petroleum lamp. And a good thing, too, to have around when Maritime Power conks out again...

See the light?

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. About a mile south of Peggy's Cove - and no tourist in sight!

Granite

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Islands

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. This picture doesn't do justice to the transparent dark of the water. But then, what does?

Inlet

. This picture was actually taken off Seabright, a few miles away from Peggy's Cove.

Harmony

. Fishing buoy on the rocks

Busted

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. One mile south of Peggy's Cove

Southpaw

 . One mile north of Peggy's Cove

Rocky shore

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. A few thousand years ago, this area - as all of Nova Scotia - was covered by glaciers. They polished the granite, and they picked up and dropped the big boulders.

Glacier's end

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Inlet

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. Don't step onto these rocks or you end up straight in...

Don't!

. Actually, this isn't Davy Jones's Locker. It is the one picture where I cheated by changing hue. In nature it was just a piece of granite (shown in its true colors in "Piggyback", should you be interested). But talk of Davy Jones's Locker: Time and time again, tourists step on the slippery seaweed. Then Davy Jones sends a rogue wave and fills up his locker for King Lobster. Who, being himself delicious to eat, winds up on the plate of a tourist. A gourmet circle all around, and a most delectable case of natural justice

Davy Jones's Locker

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