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PEGGY’S COVE LIGHTHOUSE • NS TOURISM
Stretching along the Atlantic from Peggy’s
Experiencing Cove to Barrington, the South Shore is a place
of sheltered harbours, surging surf and
vintage communities with charm to spare; a
the South Shore place where every turn in the road—and every
changing season—reveals something new.
Here are some experiences you can savour
BY SUSAN MACCALLUM-WHITCOMB en route (www.novascotia.com/southshore).
SEE THE LIGHT once poignant and picturesque. The SET SAIL
There’s no shortage of lighthouses in Nova hard-working hamlet this icon towers over The Municipality of Chester, covering some
Scotia: in fact, the province has more than is equally photogenic. Bobbing fi shing three dozen communities, off ers much in
160, and none stands taller—fi guratively boats, colourful buoys, salt-bleached jetties, touristic terms (www.tourismchester.ca). In
speaking, at least—than the 15.25-m (50-ft.) weathered shanties—all provide ample the eponymous anchor town, for example,
one at Peggy’s Cove (www.peggyscove photo ops. Further down the South Shore’s options range from watching professional
region.com). Erected in 1915, the Peggy’s Lighthouse Route, 12 other beacons are productions at the Chester Playhouse to
Point Lighthouse is understandably a ready for their close-up as well—including teeing off at the Chester Golf Club, an
favourite among shutterbugs. Rising alone the Fort Point Lighthouse in Liverpool and 18-hole, par 70 course notable for tight
above a water-worn granite shelf with Seal Island Lighthouse in Barrington, both fairways and fabulous ocean views. Yet it
waves lashing in the background, it creates of which you can climb for panoramic would be a shame to leave without feeling
a rugged, camera-ready vignette that is at shots. the salt spray in your face because the
