Tuesday, September 1
Experiences of the Day
We had read about Lunenburg and decided to stay a couple of nights. Who can pass up a staying in a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Lunenburg is famous because it is the, "finest example of a planned British colonial settlement in North America. The town's layout has remained intact since 1753."
On top of all that, it has an amazing museum, the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. Nancy gave me a personal tour of the museum. She has worked there for 30 years and her husband is a boat captain (she is the land captain!). Seriously you could take the tour and then come back for about an hour or two each day for a week and you might internalize everything they have to offer. It really was quite amazing.
We also toured the old school (now the library and a post grad music school), a beautiful German built wooden church (note the upside down boat hull look), and the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum where we saw very worn steps and a Bible printed in 1795 which was very large as it contained The Apocrypha. Apparently there were other books between the old and new testaments but some publishers found them to be suspect so they were left out.
Took a drive out to Blue Rocks, the more intimate version of Peggys Cove. Not many people around and just as great of views.
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| The old school house. |
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| St. John's Anglican Church |
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| Doors and naves are in the shape of boat bottoms. |
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| Lunenburg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
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| Printed in 1795 |
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| The Apocrypha |
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| Steep and worn stairs in the Knaut-Rhuland House Museum. |
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| Nancy, the best tour guide ever at the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic! |
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| Blue Rocks |
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| 44°21'13.1"N 64°14'07.7"W |
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| Lunenburg walk, 6k |
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| Blue Rocks drive, 24.2k |
Lodging: Lunenburg Airbnb
