Peggy's Cove, N. S.

Ann McRae

Peggy's Cove, established 1811, population 40, lays claim to the title 'one of the most photographed places in Canada'. Attesting to that is the fact that both the front and back cover photo of Frommer's Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI are photos of Peggy's Cove.
"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. "

We spent an afternoon there last week, with my husbands aunt and uncle and 2 of our 3 children, and about one billion other tourists!!!!

Lunch at Shaws Landing was great:

The hoaky 'lighthouse through ancor ring' shot:



It was necessary to shoot the lighthouse from below in order to avoid all of the people:


The Cove:


Ropes:


and a pano (5 images, panorama factory) looking back to the village from the Swiss Air Memorial site:


This was day 1 of our week in Atlantic Canada. More to come with due time.

ann

DJ-S1

Love this one especially

David_S85

Agree that the red boathouse and boat is a nice catch.

Looks like a wonderful place. Ann, thanks for the tour!

Nikolai

Ann,
Thank you for taking us with you on the trip!

seneca77

Very nice!
Great shots Ann! We were in Nova Scotia in June, but there was nothing but fog the day we spent in Peggy's Cove. Until I saw your pano shot from the SwissAir memorial, I had no idea you could see the village from that point! Well done!

ian408

I dig the pano. It shows some of the simple beauty of Nova Scotia. The
cove shot is a classic too.

Very pretty.

Dee

Oh gosh
I need to dig up and scan my old photos. Peggy's Cove looks the same, if memory serves... it's been decades and decades and decades.

I like the red boat and house, never saw the lighthouse thru the rusted iron ring... and the pano is gorgeous!

Mickey57

Hi Anna:
Love all the pictures, especially the red boat and the rope. We travel to PEI to camp every year...perhaps it is time to go a little further.
Thanks for sharing
Dan

Ann McRae

One more from Peggy's:


This is also several image stitched. A carving into a large hunk of granite, depicting Peggy of the cove to the left (I do not know why she has wings) and villagers hard at work fishing.

There are large boulders like this deposited all about (see the pano from the Swiss Air memorial) - from a glacial event of some sort.

The gallery link:http://canadian-ann.smugmug.com/gallery/2000986


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DJ-S1 wrote:

Love this one especially

Thanks! That is a pretty quintissential Atlantic Canada fishing village photo to my mind.


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David_S85 wrote:

Agree that the red boathouse and boat is a nice catch.

Looks like a wonderful place. Ann, thanks for the tour!

Hi David - well, either there are many red boats in coves like this or this particular photo op is there just for this purpose!!! They say that Peggy's Cove residents still fish (and we did see bouys for lobster pots on the water) but I think this is a very well known and photographed boat!

Thanks!!
ann

Ann McRae

Nikolai wrote:

Thank you for taking us with you on the trip!

You are very welcome, Nik, my friend!

Cheers

ann

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seneca77 wrote:

Great shots Ann! We were in Nova Scotia in June, but there was nothing but fog the day we spent in Peggy's Cove. Until I saw your pano shot from the SwissAir memorial, I had no idea you could see the village from that point! Well done!

Thanks! I knew as we walked up to the memorial that I was in for a special shot. I am going to print that one and send it to our hosts for the visit. Just debating leaving all the rocks in the foreground.

ann

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ian408 wrote:

I dig the pano. It shows some of the simple beauty of Nova Scotia. The
cove shot is a classic too.

Very pretty.

Thank You Ian.

ann

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Dee wrote:

I need to dig up and scan my old photos. Peggy's Cove looks the same, if memory serves... it's been decades and decades and decades.

I like the red boat and house, never saw the lighthouse thru the rusted iron ring... and the pano is gorgeous!

Hi Dee

Well, Peggy's Cove (and frankly many places we visited this trip) have a 'time stands still' sense to them - timeless, never changing, classic, a cynic might say backward....

It would be cool to see your shots!

Thanks

ann

Ann McRae

Mickey57 wrote:

Hi Anna:
Love all the pictures, especially the red boat and the rope. We travel to PEI to camp every year...perhaps it is time to go a little further.
Thanks for sharing
Dan

Hi Dan

If you are in PEI you are not too far away - I think it is about 21/2 hours by highway from the bridge to Halifax, then another half hour or so to Peggy's. Lots of beautiful countryside around - I will have to go back.

ann

cdonovan

beautiful!!!

I thought about you, the monday you were set to land in Halifax, it was miserable, cold rainy and wet here in Moncton, and i thought oh what a shame....but you fooled me! Glad you got some beautiful shots. Love the chuch photo too from St John. Isn't it a neat city to shoot???

cwphotos

Great shots Ann. Looks like a pretty sweet place to visit. :ivar

GREAPER

Nice set. It looks like it was a great trip.

Ann McRae

Hey -

When we heard that we were flying into a hurricane we were pretty worried about the weather! But it seemed that it just kept going east and we got great weather by and large the whole week.

Saint John is a really neat city. I will have shots to post from there soon (I hope)

Thanks for all the tips.

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cwphotos wrote:

Great shots Ann. Looks like a pretty sweet place to visit. :ivar

Hi Dean - Yes it is pretty neat. I am constantly awed by how large and diverse my country is - it is simple amazing.

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GREAPER wrote:

Nice set. It looks like it was a great trip.

Hi Brian

Thanks - it was a good trip.

ann

nwilkins

Lovely shots, Ann. Especially loved the red ropes!!!!!!!!!!!

Seneca

THe Cove picture is awesome.

Ann McRae

nwilkins wrote:

Lovely shots, Ann. Especially loved the red ropes!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi Nancy

Thanks. I like that one alot, too. Perhaps because it is not typical.

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Seneca wrote:

THe Cove picture is awesome.

Thank You!!!

ann

DavidTO

Nice!

More!

Ann McRae

DavidTO wrote:

Nice!

More!

Thanks!

Here:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=46040

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