July 20, 2008

July 20, 2008

Since I am an aspiring photographer, we head back to Peggy’s Cove, NS for another round of pictures. The best photographs occur when one finds a great location and then patiently waits for the right season, the right light and the right weather. With our travel schedule I have to rely on luck. It has been hard in the Maritimes for photography. If it isn’t raining, it is foggy.

From Peggy’s Cove we follow the seashore southwest past many cute coves to Lunenberg, a UNESCO world heritage site. This fishing village was once a major shipbuilding port. We start our day at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. It is all about fish and fishing of all kinds and the men, boats and equipment used to commercially harvest this resource. It is interesting. The resource is the Grand Banks fishery off Newfoundland. The waters there used to boil with cod. Since America was discovered the Grand Banks has been fished in a big way. Dried and salted cod was a vital source of protein for the poor of Europe. Unfortunately in this century the Canadians got too good at fishing the Banks and destroyed it. What wasn’t mentioned in the museum is that for the last sixteen years there has been a moratorium on fishing… and still the codfish have not returned.

After the museum we stroll thru the shops in town and spend the night at the municipal park here.