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Peggy's Cove: Puffin Watching
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  • easterntrekker
  • By easterntrekker on August 8, 2006
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  • Puffin - Halifax
    Puffin
    by easterntrekker
    Also you must not miss your chance to see the clowns of our local seabird population, the puffin. These beautiful little comics are definitely a sight to behold. The puffin is an expert swimmer and often emerges from an underwater foray with six or more small fish dangling from its serrated bill. They suffer considerable losses from herring and other gulls whose numbers are increasing due to human interference.

    A good way to see them is to book a whalewatching tour and see the two.

    There is a good tour called Peggy's Cove Whale & Puffin Watching Tour. About an hour from Halifax.

    A six hour tour is $93.00 US

  • Phone: (902) 209-3355 or 1-866-831-2277
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    Peggy's Cove: Day tours outside of Halifax
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  • By victorwkf on May 14, 2006
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  • Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia - Halifax
    Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia
    by victorwkf, 4 more photos
    If you are at Halifax, remember to go for day tours and visit the famous places around Halifax such as Peggy's Cove and Lunenburg. There are many tour companies which offer such day trips but most are only limited to summer to early autumn. If you want a customised tour which is operational all year around, I would recommend the Tall Tale Tours. They have customised tours from 1 to 6 people to famous places around Halifax and you can contact Mr Robert Young at tel: (902)8309179 or email talltaletours@ns.sympatico.ca Robert is very friendly and I enjoyed the trip very much. More tips and photographs of Peggy's Cove and Lunenburg are at my VT Peggy's Cove and Lunenburg pages respectively.

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    Peggy's Cove: Peggy's Cove
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  • tvor
  • By tvor on March 15, 2003
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  • Peggy's Cove on a foggy day - Halifax
    Peggy's Cove on a foggy
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    by tvor
    This could be a must see or a tourist trap depending on your point of view. Certainly thousands of tourists visit this small working fishing village every year, by the busload. They mainly come for the scenery, rough and rocky, huge granite rocks by the sea with a picturesque lighthouse. There's a restaurant right there as well with several gift shops and parking lots along the short road into the village. People actually live and work here and the secenery is lovely though the restaurant is a bit pricey. The gift shops do offer nice local crafts but there are a lot of little shops equally nice along the Prospect road drive. Take care driving there though, the road is winding and a bit narrow.

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    Peggy's Cove: Peggy's Cove
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  • By wreckloose on December 20, 2004
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  • Peggy's Cove Lighthouse - Halifax
    Peggy's Cove Lighthouse
    by wreckloose
    According to legend, Peggys' Cove was named after the only survivor of a schooner that ran aground and sank in 1800... a woman named Margret. Local folk called her "Peggy" and her home came to be known as Peggy's Cove.

    The original lighthouse was built in 1868. Exactly 100 years later in 1968 the Campbell family opened a five-table tea room and the Sou"Wester was born. Over the past 34 years it has grown into a 180 seat restaurant and two-level gift shop with one of the largest selections of giftware in the Maritimes.

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    Peggy's Cove: Check out the lighthouse and the locals
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  • By SHOCKZ on September 1, 2004
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  • A sunny day at the Cove - Halifax
    A sunny day at the Cove
    by SHOCKZ
    Peggy's cove provides beautiful scenery and ugly people. I am a sucker for a location with nice scenery so i believe it's worth the one hour drive to catch the cove and a couple laughs by checking out the locals.
    If I could make one suggestion to the town of Peggy's cove it would be to set up a denture stand somewhere along the cove. If there's one characteristic that a Peggy's Covean lacks, it would be teeth.

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  • Phone: 902-440-3800 ask for Big Al
  • Directions: go down the 102 towards another hick town called Prospect, you can't miss the signs.
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    Peggy's Cove: Peggy's Cove
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  • By Emet_Perach on August 26, 2002
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  • Peggy's Cove - Halifax
    by Emet_Perach
    You must have a car to get there, but its worth it.

    Its a small Village on the rocks by the water.
    You get to see wonderful waves and eat good food.

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    Peggy's Cove: Peggy's Cove
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  • By hayward68 on August 25, 2002
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  • Peggy's Cove - Halifax
    by hayward68
    The quintessential Maritime community. A fishing village perched at the lip of the North Atlantic in southwest Nova Scotia. This village is close to the site where the Swiss Air flight went down and the villagers opened their hearts and their homes to the grieving relatives who showed up in later days. Has the most photographed post office in Canada, it's in the lighthouse. That's my friend Elizabeth in the pic. If you go to Halifax, turn on the TV, you'll see her anchoring the news.

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  • Directions: From Halifax, take Route 333 to Peggy's Cove. Well signposted.
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    Peggy's Cove: Peggy's Cove
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  • By PrairieDee on August 25, 2002
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  • Peggy's Cove - Halifax
    by PrairieDee
    A tiny fishing village with unbelivable scenery and a lighthouse located along a large stretch of rock. (the lighthouse picture above is from Peggy's Cove)

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    Peggy's Cove: Visit Peggy's Cove.
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  • By margaretvn on August 25, 2002
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  • Peggy's Cove - Halifax
    by margaretvn
    About 45 minutes from Halifax is the beautiful Peggy’s Cove, the model village of Nova Scotia. This little place has for ages attracted loads of tourists and artists but only a few hundred people live there permanently. It is idyllic with little colourful fishing boats, weather beaten boathouses and the reflections on the sea. The brightly painted houses and fisher’s huts are built on granite hills, which are the remains of the last ice time.
    Sunny days or days with mist hide the danger of the Atlantic storms, which race across the rocky coast of Nova Scotia. Many ships have sunk on this coast. Very early on lighthouses were built along the coast and in Peggy’s Cove is Canada’s best known and most photographed lighthouse. It is picturesque, and brilliant white and stands in the middle of granite blocks polished in the last ice time. It is no longer in use as a lighthouse but in the summer there is the only post office in a lighthouse in Canada.

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    Peggy's Cove: PEGGYS COVE
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  • Updated By hevbell on February 22, 2004
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  • Peggys Cove - Halifax
    Peggys Cove
    by hevbell
    A nice day trip from Halifax and not to be missed. Its a classic fishing village where you can walk on the massive granite boulders that line the shore and even mail a postcard from the famous lighthouse that dominates the view.

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  • Directions: The South Shore - from Halifax head out St Margarets Bay Road & take Hwy 333 thru Shad Bay, East Dover and West Dover to Peggy's Cove. Take about 50 minutes by car.
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