Peggy’s Cove is the home of Canada’s most photographed lighthouse. The rugged, now wave swept outcrops of granite, are the exposed sections of the primeval continent of Pangea which have been sculptured into formations known as roche-moutonneés, which are similar to the Lofoten Islands of Norway – after all the Vikings did come to this …
We are in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the country’s largest and busiest port on the Atlantic Coast. Following John Cabot’s finding of the Grand Banks the Portuguese, Spanish and French arrived here from 1502 onwards. Eventually the Portuguese and Spanish pulled out of the cod trade and left it to the French and …
Our latest adventure started here. This place has the second largest natural harbour in the world and the British were drawn here following John Cabot’s explorations in 1497, when sailing from Bristol and encountered cod in vast numbers. By the mid 16th century the cod fishing grounds off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia were providing 60% …