Lunenburg, NS & Nearby Towns

To get from the Peggy's Cove campground to our next camp in 

Lunenburg, NS is only about 60 miles so it was a short driving day.

 We would be spending several days and  taking side trips out of Lunenburg. 

Lunenburg became a designated  UNESCO World Heritage Site site in 1995.

So it's picturesque beauty will be preserved for all.

 It is one of the most beautiful places we've ever been. 

(I'm afraid with each new travel discovery I'm beginning to say that more & more frequently ! )

This map below will help us remember the location relationships & distances for our last  week or so. 
We will have some side trips out of Lunenburg  The Ovens & that's only about 10 miles. However, we would take many little side roads en route  just to see what we could see :

  Coves, Inlets, Blowing Laundry, Wind-Worn Buildings & brightly painted ones too, Fish Nets, Lobster Traps, Bouys, Boats: big ones, small ones, grounded "dead" ones.........

Again LOTS of nice "laundry" shots....just couldn't resist ! ...BUT not posting the laundry shots here.
Then Blue Rock was only 4.5 miles out of Lunenberg.  
So we had lots of not-too-far-away 'splorin to do !

We stayed in another  Passport America RV camp just on the edge of Lunenburg for $21 a night: Little Lake Family Campground

Lunenburg was established in 1753 by the British, then came the   French, Swiss, German & Dutch. Famous for shipbuilding & related industries as well as fishing, of course.

There's so much more history & I won't type here because it's just easier to check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunenburg,_Nova_Scotia

Lunenburg is built on a fairly steep hillside & the houses & business are all quite colorful with lots of "gingerbread" architectural trimmings .

It's famous as a picturesque fishing village with it's line of red buildings on the waterfront which one often sees on calendars and such. 

YARD SALE ANYONE??? SURE, WHY NOT?

While at this yard sale we spent as much time talking with the 
old-timer running it as we did looking at the "junk".  
That's what often happens at yard sales & it's the most fun & interesting part.

We got talking with him about things like "making a living" & paying ever increasing bills there in Nova Scotia just as in the States. 

As an example ; He told us about an elderly man he knew that actually froze to death because he was unable to pay his ever increasing heating bill & the service company turned his heat off !

ALSO Lunenburg is famous for the Bluenose  Sailing schooner a tall-ship, which had never been defeated in a race. 
It's image is on the Canadian dime as well as license plates, stamps & commemorated in many other places.
It's replica the Bluenose II is being refurbished in these photos. We're sorry we didn't get to see it with all of it's sails up.

NEXT: Lunenburg part 2