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We will be going to Nova Scotia for 10 days in September. What are some of the must see/must do things in Halifax, Cape Breton, and Prince Edward Island? Thanks in advance for your input.

ive never been......but if you can get to Peggy's cove......I believe the lighthouse IS the Post office and gift shop!!!!

http://www.tourcanada.com/pegcove.htm

BN's own Tikitatas lives in Nova Scotia...you should get in touch with her!

10. Eat some fish
9. Walk the beach
8. Eat some lobster
7. Visit lighthouses
6. Eat some seafood
5. Go whale watching
4. Eat some mussels
3. Give warm regards to the rellies of a certain JB and our own Wino You Know.
2. Have a Molson Brador with your seafood














1. Say Hi to Tikitatas!

Hey, we're going to PEI this summer (which IS a separate province and not part of Nova Scotia ), and I guess we could go home by way of Nova Scotia and see Tikitatas, too. Are you ready for us all?

Drive the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton.
Check out the boardwalk in Halifax.
Go to Lunenburg and Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia, they are really beautiful little towns fairly close to Halifax. Lunenburg is a UNESCO world heritage site.
Also nearby is Peggy's Cove. Their lighthouse is one of the most photographed lighthouses in the world.
Halifax boasts some very good restaurants (although no Margaritaville that I know of!)
Have a great time, you should have nice weather at that time of the year.

Go to Oak Island and visit the Money Pit (dubbed so because millions of dollars have been sunk into engineers and scientist trying to figure out how to get in), one of the many allegedly hidden places of the treasure of the Knights Templar.

It's an amazing tavern that goes hundreds of feet deep, with platforms of various materials at like 10' intervals with all sorts of tunnel systems built to flood the system with water from the sea if someone breaches a certain area. It was built approximately 600-700 years ago to our knowledge and many millionaires have spent countless money trying to discover what this "Money Pit" is hiding. It's alleged the Knights Templar treasure is there because a descendent of one of the founders of the Order took in the Knights in Scotland when the French were hunting them down. Several years before, this Scotsman travelled to Nova Scotia secretely and never left any details...then the Templars treasure disappeared around the same time this man, who only knew the location at the time, took in his Templars. Coincidentally, the Templars helped the Scots gain their freedom from the English.

It's on my list of places to visit

Thanks for all the info about Nova Scotia.

If you get a chance go see Natalie McMasters and her family fiddling around. They are amazing. Of course, she may be on tour then, I don't recall what the rest of her tour is like since I got to see her on Saturday night.

If there ARE 10 things that qualify, I'd like to add one more...

"Great airport at St. John's to connect with on the return flight from the U.K."

...or is that in Newfoundland ?

Lightning Bolt wrote:"Great airport at St. John's to connect with on the return flight from the U.K."

...or is that in Newfoundland ?

St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
St. John, New Brunswick

Best way to remember it is that the city with something tacked onto the end (the apostrophe s) of its name is in the province with something tacked onto the end (the "& Labrador") of its name.

mommar wrote:ive never been......but if you can get to Peggy's cove......I believe the lighthouse IS the Post office and gift shop!!!!

http://www.tourcanada.com/pegcove.htm

There are only a couple of places to stay in Peggy's Cove - and I would certainly try to do so. It's not too far outside of Halifax, but it might as well be on the other end of the planet. Peggy's Cove is mesmerizing. Maybe overrun in the summer, not sure, but I was there a few years ago in Sept, and it was amazing and beautiful and deserted (as far as tourists).

http://www.nsinns.com/Peggy'sCoveB&B.htm

Lunenburg is also very beautiful - it's one of the main photos that NS uses for tourism brochures that I've seen. I stayed at the Brigantine Inn - overlooks the water, pub/restaurant downstairs. Can't go wrong!

http://brigantineinn.com/

if i went to nova scotia, i know who i'd do

If you're an angler and want a once in a lifetime experience, try yer luck for the 1,000 lb Bluefin tuna that roam Nova Scotia. Shallow water so its not a deep pull instead its a run and gun hold on for your life.

Thanks for all the tips!

Sheesh! How on earth did I miss this thread about my own fair province? As the Gaelic speakers say," Ciad Milé Faílte" or One Hundred Thousand Welcomes!

If you wish to e-mail me, just PM me for my e-mail and I will connect you with some little known gems of our locale!

buffettbride wrote:if i went to nova scotia, i know who i'd do

Mallory!

When will you be here??

Do not miss Hall's Harbour. I can't believe that I didn't know about it until my visit "home" last summer. Met Tikitatas/Cate, and discovered Halls Harbour all in the same day. One of the best days ever!

Hall's Harbour looks great. Did you stay there or just do a day visit?
http://www.halls-harbour.ca

Doing searches for web cams uncovered one of my favorite things about NS.
When I describe it as "pastoral" it just means the highways are like this:
http://www.gov.ns.ca/tran/cameras/camera.asp