Peggy's Cove 2012

One of Nova Scotia's most iconic images is that of the Peggy's Cove lighthouse. You've seen it here and this summer, a friend and I took a road trip back there to rest and relax and explore a bit of the village below the lighthouse.

There were tourists everywhere on the rocks west of the lighthouse, so this time we tackled it from a bit of a different direction. We were not disappointed.

        

Then we came across this poor guy.
Fear not, he wasn't dead. We were able to actually get close enough to touch him though, which was pretty neat, and then he looked at us with big, sad seal eyes and we knew we had to get him back in the water. A lady nearby ran to the onsite restaurant and a man came down with a big industrial broom and was able to very carefully nudge the little seal back into the ocean. Oddly enough, though, the seal wanted none of that, and made his way back up onto another nearby rock. At that point, we thought that maybe it was injured, sick, or possibly pregnant and grudgingly left it to it's sunbathing.

 The view back the way we came.

     

And a bit of the village of Peggy's Cove.



 

 

 

It was just after that last shot that I dropped my camera. If you've read my other posts, you'll know this isn't the first time this has happened. Fortunately, it was only my Canon PowerShot, also known as my 'pocket puppy' and although the LCD screen cracked, it still worked perfectly enough to take a shot of the other side of the road..

 ...and one last glimpse of the sentinal standing watch as we left.