Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

FrAnKs · #1 Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 2:57 AM**

Take a look at my video of Peggy’s cove!
https://youtu.be/WdgyKzP6My8?feature=shared

xzmattzx · #2 Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 5:02 AM**

Looks great! I'm sure the Instaworthy spots are popular, but they take away from the raw nature.

hauntedheadnc · #3 Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 11:11 AM**

Who was Peggy? Why did she get a cove?

And for that matter, who was Martha and what's all this about her vineyard?

vetteking · #4 Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 1:17 PM**

Beautiful

mrnyc · #5 Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 3:16 PM**

very pretty — although you can’t help but wonder what its like the other 11 months of the year when its pounded by gales and buried in snow?

Wigs · #6 Posted **Sep 11, 2024, 8:36 PM**

My parents took me and my brother on a pretty epic last family vacation to the Maritimes in the late 90s.

We visited Peggy's Cove on a hot, windy July summer day. A local warned me not to get too close to the ocean on those rocks.
Sure enough, I came close to being swept away!

(I was a dumb teenager without the fear factor that comes with age)

Love me some Nova Scotia. great memories!
Thanks for the tour, FrAnKs

FrAnKs · #7 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 4:22 AM**

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Originally Posted by xzmattzx

Looks great! I'm sure the Instaworthy spots are popular, but they take away from the raw nature.

Thanks! I'm not sure to understand. You mean I should have more focused on nature rather than buildings?

FrAnKs · #8 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 4:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by hauntedheadnc

Who was Peggy? Why did she get a cove?

And for that matter, who was Martha and what's all this about her vineyard?

lol Was wondering that myself, then I got my answer when I visited:

''The first recorded name of the cove was Eastern Point Harbour or Peggs Harbour in 1766. The village is likely named after Saint Margaret's Bay (Peggy being a nickname for Margaret), which Samuel de Champlain named after his mother Marguerite Le Roy''

FrAnKs · #9 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 4:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by vetteking

Beautiful

Thanks!

FrAnKs · #10 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 4:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by mrnyc

very pretty — although you can’t help but wonder what its like the other 11 months of the year when its pounded by gales and buried in snow?

This place is mostly alive due to tourism during summer time.

For the rest of the year, it must be cold, humid and very very quiet.

I heard that there are only 30 permanent residents in Peggy's cove, most of them being Fishermen still in activity.

FrAnKs · #11 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 4:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Wigs

My parents took me and my brother on a pretty epic last family vacation to the Maritimes in the late 90s.

We visited Peggy's Cove on a hot, windy July summer day. A local warned me not to get too close to the ocean on those rocks.
Sure enough, I came close to being swept away!

(I was a dumb teenager without the fear factor that comes with age)

Love me some Nova Scotia. great memories!
Thanks for the tour, FrAnKs

Good thing is I've always had that ''fear'' factor even when I was younger lol

Nova Scotia always makes good memories

north 42 · #12 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 1:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by mrnyc

very pretty — although you can’t help but wonder what its like the other 11 months of the year when its pounded by gales and buried in snow?

It’s not really very cold there though, with most daytime winter highs just above freezing, so lots of rain and snow in winter.

FrAnKs · #13 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 2:45 PM**

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It’s not really very cold there though, with most daytime winter highs just above freezing, so lots of rain and snow in winter.

What is the average snow depth every winter around there?

vetteking · #14 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 6:14 PM**

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Thanks!

No problem FrAnKs

Doady · #15 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 8:50 PM**

Wow, very beautiful landscape, which makes the way the buildings are somehow built upon it all that more interesting.

MountainSkyline · #16 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 10:48 PM**

Beautiful, it reminds me of Norway, same geological formation and similar buildings

JManc · #17 Posted **Sep 16, 2024, 11:32 PM**

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Beautiful, it reminds me of Norway, same geological formation and similar buildings

That was my first thought as well.

xzmattzx · #18 Posted **Sep 17, 2024, 5:31 AM**

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Originally Posted by FrAnKs

Thanks! I'm not sure to understand. You mean I should have more focused on nature rather than buildings?

That wasn't for you, but just opining on how the Adirondack chairs take away from the natural Nova Scotia scenery in an attempt to provide nice social media pictures.

mrnyc · #19 Posted **Sep 17, 2024, 4:31 PM**

^ yeah it is set up and rehabbed for cute social media exposure, like for getting ‘thee’ photo shots, but a lot of places like it are these days you can’t fight it lol.

FrAnKs · #20 Posted **Sep 24, 2024, 8:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by Doady

Wow, very beautiful landscape, which makes the way the buildings are somehow built upon it all that more interesting.

Absolutely! They literally used the natural wonders of this area to built this wonderful fishing village