Description: Lunenburg is a UNESCO World Heritage site, the only one in Nova Scotia. It is a lovely historic village and is most famous for being the birthplace (OK, building site?) of the Bluenose, that famous schooner that shows up on the Canadian dime.
We decided to stop at Lunenburg on a whim as we drove past all the signs on the Highway saying things like “World Heritage site”, “Home of the Bluenose”, and “Bluenose II in port”.
The Bluenose II is a replica of the original Bluenose and you can take a tour on it or charter it. Tickets are on sale just outside of the Nova Scotia Fisheries Museum. The time of day we were there however, the ship was not in port. I heard someone else say that she had seen it leave port, but that was as close as we got to it. Well, we bought a post card with its picture on it for the 4-year-old.
The Fisheries Museum seemed like it would be interesting and the kids wanted to go there, but it was getting late and we still had a long drive so we skipped it. It costs $9 for adults and $3 for kids. We have enjoyed all of the other Nova Scotia Museums from the same family and I’m sure it would have been lovely, maybe some other time. The gift shop was quite large and had a good assortment of NS stuff. It had postcards from several other nearby locations, including Chester, Mahone Bay, and Peggy’s Cove (which we bought also).
Adjacent to the giftshop was an ice cream stand, so we decided to get some cones. Always go with the waffle cones when available is my motto, so we did. They had about 8 choices of flavours, everyone had grizzly tracks (Farmer’s Dairy’s vanilla with chocolate and caramel bits), but I opted for the Dublin Chocolate (irish cream flavoured). They were good, but mine had some little bits of ice flecks. The waffle cones were also kind of crumbly. However, ice cream is ice cream and we enjoyed it.
We parked just inside the town at a little parking lot and walked down to the museums. The first place we saw was the public restroom facility. It was restrooms just sitting there, with no information booth. Struck me as kind of odd. The information booth was quite a bit further along.
It was a lovely day so we really enjoyed walking along, looking at the sites. We had to keep our stay short because we had a long drive still to come. In hindsight, we should have driven a little further along to take advantage of the historic views, but we should also have taken the first exit off the highway. Ahh well, live and learn. It added about an hour to the trip from Halifax to Yarmouth, including the ice cream.
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