Wednesday, June 5, 2024 (Day 30)

Hacketts Cove / 9:25 a.m. / 16 degrees to Hackett’s Cove / 5:50 p.m. / 21 degrees for a total of 293 km of driving. 

Today’s journey will have us visiting the South Shore of Nova Scotia.  Now this is a Coastal drive, so beautiful.   We make our way around St. Margaret’s Bay, then East Chester as we follow the Lighthouse Route.  On to Chester and Mahone’s Bay.  Since Halifax, this is the first that we have seen leisure boats.  On our previous travels it was all working fishing boats.  

Mahone’s Bay, home of the 5 churches with 3 of them within a close proximity on the main road.

We make our way to Lunenburg, a beautiful town with colourful homes and older buildings including a well maintained church.  Ideally, make your way to the waterfront and park.  Very hilly but worth the trip.  We were fortunate to see the Bluenose Ship as it was in town. 

An area we did not visit but looks very interesting is “The Ovens Natural Park” which is famous for their sea caves.

Travelling along the coast we come to East LaHave and guess what…a ferry!  We have lost count of the number of ferry’s we have been on since leaving home.  This cable ferry (no cost) take us across to LaHave, a 7 minute ferry ride.  Note:  You can drive to the main highway and come down the other side although the ferry definitely saves driving time.

Once in LaHave we stopped at the bakery.  An older building with various establishments sharing the space.  We pick up a loaf of fresh bread.

Continuing on, Perry notices an interesting beach.  It is “Crescent Beach”, approximately 2 km long and we are able to drive our vehicle along the beach.  What a fun ride.  After exiting the beach we continue to the end of the LaHave Island Road.  We were not expecting it to be as populated as it was.  Just before the end of the road there is a little church.  As we turn around and make our way back, a deer crosses in front of us (see picture below, caught his back end before he headed in to the woods).  Of course we had to drive back on the beach as we make our way to the highway.  How often do we get to do this in Canada?  We also enjoyed watching several dogs having fun in the water.  

Just after Crescent Beach you will find Rissers Beach Loop, a 1.6 km loop trail for birding and walking.  We did not walk this boardwalk but looks like a nice walk.

Not long after is the Petite Rivière General Store and you may guess it, great ice cream.  It is a very busy spot, can’t imagine how busy they are during peak season in the summer.  

As we wrap our day, it is time to head back towards our hosts home in Hackett’s Cove and enjoy another beautiful sunset. 


Mahone (3 of 5 churches)

Lunenburg


Crescent Beach

Crescent Beach - Deer

Sunset - Hackett's Cove


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