The girls and I had different agendas today. I spent the day assisting Brent on a shoot for a hair styling competition and Ruth and Pepsi visited Lunenburg, the Lighthouse Route and Peggy’s Cove.

The photo shoot was a lot of fun – three models (black, blue and orange hair), one hair dresser and a make-up artist.

While Martin was assisting in shooting the models, the girls (Pepsi and I) went for a great outing. Beautiful weather, a fast trip on Highway 103 to Lunenburg where I spent a couple of hours to get to know this historic town which was designated a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in 1995.

The town was established during Father Le Loutre’s War, four years after Halifax. The town was one of the first British attempts to settle Protestants especially from Germany, Austria and the Netherlands in Nova Scotia and, as a result, the (Catholic) Wabanaki Confederacy raided the community nine times in the early years of the settlement. I visited one of it’s oldest houses from 1753, now a museum which gives a great insight into the history. Fascinting how the news settlers found their new land, promised by the British King: Pick a card, any card from a deck of cards! On its back you find the number of your lot and you can find it on the map.

Blue Nose II still under repair in Lunenburg and two new Schooners are almost finished by a small boat building shop called The Dory Shop.

 

Then Pepsi and I took the Lighthouse Route back East, going by beautiful small towns, great beaches –no swimming unfortunately- and ended up in Peggy’s cove for a few shots and a wonderful ice cream since the day was very hot and sunny against all odds.

Back in Halifax we met Martin at Brent’s Studio.

At 7:30PM we met Trevor for ribs at the Boneheads BBQ on Barrington street. It was great to catch up again and share experiences of our travels in Atlantic Canada. After dinner we walked to a pub with great live Jazz music and had a round of drinks.