Mahone Bay and Lunenburg

August 23

Last night we ate a street side café

and the waitress told Jan of a coastal town and a small harbor town that she thought we would enjoy.  One of the towns was a quiet little harbor called Mahone Bay. 

There were 4 handsome churches that lined one of the shores. 

The other shore was quaint little shops for all the tourists.  After the shops there was an entrance into the docks.  Several of the boats were out of the bay being worked on.  One that caught my attention was an old fishing ship

that looked like it had seen its last days in the water.

From Mahone Bay we hopped over to Lunenburg an early seaport.  This little port goes back to the mid 1700’s.  There were several beautiful fishing sail ships in the harbor. 

One of the ships was a triple mast tall ship.  I don’t think I’ve ever seen as much rope as this ship hanging all over it.

  The town its self sat on the side of a hill and had 5 streets paralleling the harbor.  At the top were the churches and businesses that were on each street according the importance to the harbor activity.  Most all the businesses were very colorfully painted.

Tomorrow we plan to be on the road to Moncton, NB where we hope to see more activities along the Western coast of the Fundy Bay.