Episode 79 - Peggy's Cove Lighthouse

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Hi everyone, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this

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is The Lighthouse Lowdown. I tried to get you

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with that one. My finger was hovering on the

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button. I know. I realized as I paused that you

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weren't going in hard enough for me to catch

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you in the act, you know. Vince wants to talk

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about coffee. I got an iced coffee today, which

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is different than the latest. Freezes we've had

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from Dutch Bros. I guess I could branch out,

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but in my head, Dutch Bros is for the Golden

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Eagle, and that's it. Which is like a... Because

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it's special. I mean, all those drinks are super

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sweet. Yeah. And I can get an iced coffee anywhere,

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which is what I usually get from scooters. Well,

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I'm pretty sure that I saw them put chocolate

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milk in mine today. I don't remember what it's

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called, but... Interesting. So, it is... Chocolate

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milk with espresso, basically. It actually sounds

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delicious. I think what I don't like about mocha,

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the reason why I don't like mocha is because

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it doesn't taste like chocolate to me. It tastes

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like... Yeah, it's got some bitterness to it

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because it's cocoa. Yeah. Typically. That must

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be it. It's just like too pungent. I think chocolate

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milk sounds a lot better than that. It's like

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the spice of chocolateness. Ew. Some people like

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spicy chocolate, though. I would despise that.

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Like people that like spicy margaritas. So gross.

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Anyway. Sorry to our listeners that like spicy

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margaritas. But you're wrong. Keep it to yourself.

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History buoy for the day. Nice. You know, you're

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right. It is nice. And I have not failed. at

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providing a lighthouse buoy in a really long

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time. I'm pretty sure, like, since last year.

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I mean, what episode are we on? 79? 79. So I

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forget every time that there's lighthouse buoys.

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Wait, what are you talking about? Like, I was

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just, oh, yeah, lighthouse buoy. Oh, pleasantly

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surprised? We've done this almost 80 times. But

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you like them? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Today's

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episode buoy is the Canadian lighthouse route.

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I don't know this one. It made me think of, you

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did a lighthouse. Oh, a hike, right? Yeah, the

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Faro de Caminos. Caminos de Faros. I speak zero

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Spanish, but it was in Spain. And there's a,

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yeah, anyways. So it was a whole episode we did.

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It wasn't a lighthouse buoy. Okay. But yeah,

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it was a path of lighthouses that you could also

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hike along the coast of Spain that ended in Land's

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End. Yes, the end of the world or whatever. No,

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I don't know. It was too long ago to remember

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the details. But you guys can go listen to the

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episode that talks about that if you want to.

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You might want to after hearing this history

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boy, which is rocking. Same vibe driving Nova

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Scotia. Okay. So for people that don't know,

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that's Canada. In Nova Scotia alone, I think

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there's like 160 lighthouses. 50, about... Hang

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that cord up. You know, over here, I was desperately

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trying to find something to prop my foot up on,

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and I just didn't notice that I was... I was

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like, what is that sound coming from? It was

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like my own leg touching our equipment. Yeah,

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so I don't know what other... Hold on. I don't...

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Okay. She still didn't do what I pointed her

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to do. I don't know what other Lighthouse podcasters

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do, but we have these really nice microphones,

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and if you touch the cord, this is what you hear.

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If you touch the stand, oh, that's pretty much

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isolated. That's not bad. Because we've got those

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little spring isolators. If you touch the table,

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sometimes even putting down the cup. Anyways,

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so we do our best here, folks. Sometimes stuff

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happens. Sometimes you're going to hear, you

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know. And just imagine if you're not here. We

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have these giant headphones on listening to ourselves.

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Yeah, sometimes I can't tell if it's something

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that's coming through the audio or if it's just

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like muffled in real life. Yeah, like there's

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thunder outside right now. Yeah. So like. Yeah,

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we had a tornado hit the Chiefs Stadium today.

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Did it actually? I don't know for sure if there's,

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like, damage, but it definitely was on the ground

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over the stadium. Some people would be like,

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oh, yeah. People said they'll just blame it on

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the refs or something. Like, good one. That's

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kind of funny. Anyway, what was I saying? Lighthouse,

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Canada, Nova Scotia. There's around 50 lighthouses

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of the 160 that are available to the public.

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So that's a pretty good percentage. And I'll

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pull up a picture. Of Nova Scotia. Well, the

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part that we're talking about today. I guess

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I just gave away that we're staying in Nova Scotia.

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Anyway, the lighthouse route. Okay, I'm back

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on. That was me. I can't find a good spot for

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my feet. Just put them on the floor. I can't

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reach the floor. You're on the stool. Put them

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on the stool bar. It's not the same. I just like

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to have my feet propped up. Oh my gosh. The lighthouse

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route. It's not called the Canadian Lighthouse

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Route. It's just the Lighthouse Route. But I

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feel like there's bound to be others. So I just

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specified that it's Canadian. Includes the southern

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part of the province of Nova Scotia. Going all

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the way along the coastline for a total of 339

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kilometers. That is what I have a picture of.

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The Lighthouse Route and what's called the Evangeline

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Trail, I think. Let me check. Yeah, the Evangeline

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Trail. So in the picture I pulled up, where it

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says 11, that's also the start point, Halifax.

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So from 1 to 7 is the Lighthouse Route. So the

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south part of the bottom of Nova Scotia, and

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then you start to come up the side, and then

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from 7 to 11 is the Evangeline Trail. So I'm

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doing kind of both. And all together, the lighthouse

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way. Like this all together. Lighthouse route

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is the first half. And then the last half is

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the Evangeline Trail. But there's so many lighthouses

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up there that it's kind of suggested that you

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do the whole thing. Maybe it is 339 is lighthouse

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route. Because the whole thing is over 1 ,000

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kilometers. 652 miles. Okay. Easy drive. That's

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what we're looking at. What we have up is they

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were talking about driving it in an RV or something.

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So it's split up by days that you spend there.

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Oh, yeah, nice. Like camping out. Right. I'm

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not going to go so deep. They went really deep

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into that, and I have that in the show notes.

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So if anybody wants to open that link, take a

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look on what they suggest. what they tell you

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to look at at each place, but I focused on lighthouses.

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This link didn't have all the lighthouses, so

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I left it behind. But the route covers a few

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lighthouses and several picturesque towns, including

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Halifax, Liverpool, Yarmouth, some other stuff.

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And so you start at Halifax and drive south,

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and you first hit Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, which

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is actually the most photographed in Canada,

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some say. Peggy. And Fort Point Lighthouse, which

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is a replica of the original lighthouse, plus

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also a big museum. Okay. So these are like, we'll

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have to keep them on the list. These are ones

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we'll have to cover. And then there's another

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Fort Point Lighthouse in Liverpool. So same name,

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very close together, but different lighthouses.

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And on the way there, you can also see Port Medway

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Lighthouse. And then Yarmouth is the last stop

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on the lighthouse route. And on the way, you'll

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see Sandy Point Lighthouse, Seal Island, and

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Cape Sable Lighthouse. And then, so that's just

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the first part. So there's not actually as many

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lighthouses as you would think on the lighthouse

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route. It's just kind of called that, I think,

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probably because of the big ones that I just

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mentioned. What? That was like seven you said

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right there, right? Let's see. One, two, three,

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four, five, six, seven. Wow. Boom. Great. I can't

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speak. Passive counting. But, you know, we're

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on this. I'm like over here, fingers and toes.

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One, two. Okay, that's three. So, lighthouse

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route. It doesn't have the most lighthouses,

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but I think it has some big ones. So if you continue

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along the coastline of Nova Scotia and start

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going north again, that's when you hit a lot

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of lighthouses. Yeah, when you get up to Muscadoubolt

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Harbor. Digby, Annapolis Royal. How do you say

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that? What is that? What? Muscadoubolt? Oh, Muscadoubolt.

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I don't know. I don't know. How dare you ask

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me to pronounce something? Well, I threw it out

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there first. Shoot. So anyway, if you keep going

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all the way around into a big circle, there's

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a bunch of lighthouses up top. And somebody did

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this drive and listed a lot of the lighthouses

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that they saw. So the next one they had was Cape

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Fortue, which is the tallest in Nova Scotia at

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123 feet. So Nova Scotia's lighthouses are on

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the shorter side, if 123 feet, which is still

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a lot. But for that to be the tallest lighthouse

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there is cute. And then we have Cape St. Mary

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Lighthouse, Church Point, Bellevue Cove, Gilbert's

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Cove, Digby Pier, Point Prim Lighthouse, and

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so many more to see. That's a lot. To be fair,

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we learned that taller lighthouses are not necessarily

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better. Oh, of course. For range, for initial

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cost, for maintenance, for climbing. But it's

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very America that I think we have. Don't we have

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the tallest lighthouses? We have a lot of tall

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lighthouses. Probably on average, if not the

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tallest. Yeah. We have the tallest lighthouses.

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Because like the only really tall lighthouses

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they have overseas are because they were supposed

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to be symbols of power. Yeah. So then they built

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them to be really tall just for that and not

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for like. Yeah. So like America is like, we need

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a bigger one. We need more bigger ones. We're

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going to build a bunch of them. Where, you know,

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you can be below the fog in a like triangle island

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light, for example. Super, which is actually,

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is that technically? It is Canada, technically.

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Yeah. But it was built on this high cliff and

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it was actually above the weather, which for

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a ship is not useful. No. Didn't you say it was

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like 400 feet in the air? It was way up there.

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Yeah, 600, I want to say. Something wild for

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an island. Something fell like 600 feet. Anyways,

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that's a whole episode. Another Canada lighthouse.

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You want to go see it? That was a long time ago.

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We recorded that when I broke my foot. That might

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have been my first one. No. I think that was

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your first one. Yeah. Well, cool. That's the

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end of my history buoy. Nice. So just a little

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thing for our listeners. If they are adventurous,

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want to travel, see a bunch of lighthouses. There's

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a lot in Nova Scotia, so check it out. And we're

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going to go into our episode today, which we're

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staying in Nova Scotia, as I spoiled earlier.

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Canada. Yeah, staying in Canada. And we're covering

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the most photographed lighthouse in Canada and

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most photographed landmark in Nova Scotia, which

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is Peggy's Cove Lighthouse. Peggy's Cove. First

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point to make. is that Peggy's Cove's official

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name is actually Peggy's Point Lighthouse. That's

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been true the entire time. But for some reason,

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it's referred to as Peggy's Cove, and they just...

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You have to be okay with it, because that's what

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people are going to call it. That's weird. Because

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actually, Peggy's Cove is... Let me show a picture.

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So you can see the cove is actually... past the

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point it's like yeah so the cove is physically

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north but the point is clearly like a peninsula

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yeah it's a point so the cove in the point peggy's

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cove lighthouse is to mark the point and not

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the cove the cove is actually marked by a light

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anyway owned by the government oh i don't know

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if it's called peggy's cove lighthouse but i

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i think it's more of just like a light like a

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small government light and then this what well

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the road out there is called peggy's point road

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oh yeah Okay, so. Which is, oh, that's the official

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name. Yeah. But the local's name is Peggy's Cove.

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I don't know. See, yeah, it's Peggy's Cove Viewing

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Platform, Peggy's Cove Gift Shop, Peggy's Cove

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Car Park. Tom's Lobster Shack. But there is a

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Peggy's Cove, so it's just that the lighthouse

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is actually called Peggy's Point. So keep that

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in mind. I'm going to keep calling it Peggy's

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Cove because it's just widely accepted that that's

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what it's referred to. I accept that. There's

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some speculation on where the name for the cove

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came from, which was one of the interesting things

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I saw while I was researching. This is the edge

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of St. Margaret's Bay. So I don't have the full

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Google image, but if you go up from this picture,

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all that water is St. Margaret's Bay, and it

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goes up further. So Peggy is apparently a nickname

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for Margaret. I don't know how. Like there's

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no P in Margaret. Wait. How does Peggy become

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a nickname? I don't understand that at all. I

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know. Like Richard and Dick. Yeah. But. It's

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the same. Peggy. Peggy Margaret. It's a real

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thing. So anyway, the most reasonable explanation

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is that Peggy's Cove is in reference to St. Margaret's

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Bay. Like, you know, tiny little body of water.

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Like a little Margaret. Coming off. You're like,

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oh. It's actually Peggy's Cove, a little nickname.

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The fun idea is that there was a shipwreck a

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long time ago in the cove, and the only survivor

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was a woman named Peggy. And she stayed there

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for the rest of her life. She married, had kids.

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And so there's a lot of people that stand by

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that this is why the cove was named Peggy's Cove.

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And there are some people that even claim that

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they're her descendants. Do you think that makes

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sense? What? Let's say you're on a ship, okay,

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Who knows what year? Not 1970. And then the ship

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crashes and you're the only survivor. Do you

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just stay and live a whole legendary life where

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your ship happened to crash? Thinking of... Seems...

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A long time ago. Sus. Well, what would you do?

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I'd try to go back where I was from. If you're

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a woman, you have... No way of doing that. So

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you think actually she could have been freed

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by the ship crashing and everyone else dying.

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Maybe she caused it. Oh my gosh. What are you

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talking about? Well, like social, like she, like

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she was meant, I mean, I don't know. She says

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like what the situation was, but she probably

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didn't have like, you know, her own cell phone

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or her own bank account. So I'm just saying,

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you know, like maybe the shipwreck because she

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survived was actually fortunate for her. And

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so, you know, this could make sense then. I think

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that she was probably somebody's wife or something

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from a merchant coming on a ship, right? And

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then it crashes, she loses everything. I'm assuming

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this was long enough ago for things to still

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be named, so it had to have been like 1400s or

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something. Yeah, but they used to say that women

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on board was bad luck. There's so very rarely

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ever a woman on board a ship. That it was actually

00:16:38.710 --> 00:16:41.649
bad luck. Yeah, but if she's coming to live over

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here, like, you know, people came to the new

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world. I guess we'll have to leave it at legend.

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Well, how did we get to speculating about...

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We can't interview her, so... I think that there's

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no way for you to contact people back home. Nobody's

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ever going to know that you crashed. You can't

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go looking. If you find people... that are willing

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to take you in, you have nowhere else to go.

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There's no reason for a woman at this time to

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go searching for anything else. She just needs

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to start a new life. That's so crazy. Maybe she

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was a child at that time. Peggy's kind of like

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a nickname for a child. Or like a little version

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of Margaret. That's going to be in our quiz whenever

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I do a quiz on the show. It's been so long since

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we did it. I'm just going to put it out there.

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We're going to do a Lighthouse Cocktail Hour

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with at least one more or two of our friends.

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So I don't get to be a part of the quiz? No,

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you'll be there. I told you, I'm serving drinks.

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You're going to compete against them in this

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quiz. I'm going to crush them. No, no, no. Your

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questions are going to be harder than theirs.

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What? Absolutely. I hope I'm not wrong. That's

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unfair. No, it is fair because you're the host

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of the show. You're actually the founder of the

00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.740
Lighthouse Slowdown. So what are you doing? You're

00:18:05.740 --> 00:18:08.099
like listening to the episodes all the way back?

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I'm not going to tell you all that secret. I

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want to know how accurate you're going to be.

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You can't study. I would not. They'll have questions

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like, you know, which of these is the lighthouse

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that's the tallest? And it's going to be clearly,

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you know, you would know. Absolutely. And then.

00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.839
they won't know unless they listen to our show

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and i'm giving them research now except they're

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not going to listen to this i bet the people

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i'm thinking about and then uh your questions

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are going to be harder based on the history of

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our show or facts that i know that you've heard

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we've already established from our our most uh

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some of our recent episodes that i don't remember

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things perfectly and will defend them even if

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i'm wrong i will have citations What? It's going

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to be fun. It's going to be a fun lighthouse

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cocktail hour. I'm kind of scared. What if I

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look like an idiot? You know? You don't have

00:19:00.509 --> 00:19:03.569
to worry about that. I think I do. You're going

00:19:03.569 --> 00:19:08.589
to be like, what's something you, how many flash

00:19:08.589 --> 00:19:12.269
panels on this Fresnel lens that you covered

00:19:12.269 --> 00:19:14.650
in episode 13? It'll be multiple choice. I'm

00:19:14.650 --> 00:19:17.190
going to be like, uh. It'll be multiple choice

00:19:17.190 --> 00:19:20.410
and I'm not going to get, just let me do this.

00:19:21.659 --> 00:19:23.700
All right. Okay, because I want to have fun,

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and the only way to have fun is if I'm getting

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most of them right. All right. Peggy is the reason

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that we named this Peggy's Cove. Allegedly. And

00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.059
we don't know if that Peggy is a bay or a woman,

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and that's all we have to say about it. So the

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area is known for being really unpredictable

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when it comes to waves. I mean, obviously, we

00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.079
ended up with a lighthouse out here, but... the

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sea will appear calm. And I have the picture

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up so you can see the side that's facing the

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bay and the cove are super calm. And then right

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at the corner and onward, you can just see how

00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.200
choppy the water is. Yeah, a little more rock

00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.480
and roll. You can see the currents and the foam

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and the waves and everything. So it's unpredictable

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and also gives you a false sense of security

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coming up from one side. of peggy's point when

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the other side is a super aggressive waves and

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everything safe on one side yeah and these rocks

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are like smoothed out so they can be really slippery

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and you'll see picture later but they tell you

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when you come out here that if you're not if

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you're not walking on white rock then you're

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in a danger zone because obviously when the rock

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gets wet you can see it's like dark gray So it's

00:20:45.140 --> 00:20:47.480
supposed to mark areas that are safer. So you're

00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.660
on White Rock. But anyway, there's just been

00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:54.980
a lot of instances where a wave will just splash

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up. No warning or anything. Everything will be

00:20:57.579 --> 00:20:59.880
totally calm. And then a wave comes out of nowhere

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and will sweep people out. And there's like really

00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.660
strong tides and currents and stuff over here.

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So they actually have warning plaques on the

00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:12.690
rocks. It says warning. Injury and death have

00:21:12.690 --> 00:21:15.730
rewarded careless sightseers here. The ocean

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and rocks are treacherous. Savor the sea from

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a distance. What a wording. I know. Well, the

00:21:21.609 --> 00:21:24.069
complaint from a lot of people who visit is that

00:21:24.069 --> 00:21:27.730
it looks like not a current thing you have to

00:21:27.730 --> 00:21:30.390
worry about. It's a plaque. Yeah, it seems like

00:21:30.390 --> 00:21:34.980
a historical thing. There's been lots of people

00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:37.019
who have died here. It doesn't look like. Hear

00:21:37.019 --> 00:21:39.299
ye, hear ye. Yeah. It doesn't. It's not really

00:21:39.299 --> 00:21:42.980
saying like you tourist stay away from the water.

00:21:44.099 --> 00:21:46.900
You know how those signs usually are. Yeah. Upright.

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Sharks here. And they're white and they're red

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and they're plastic. This one's like. We're going

00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:56.819
to use the word treacherous. A metal plaque on

00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:59.579
the ground. I don't know. I would see that. It's

00:21:59.579 --> 00:22:03.160
so unnecessarily artistic. I know. That's the

00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:05.359
thing. It looks like it's something that, like

00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.000
a museum, like it would say Peggy's Cove on it.

00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:15.599
But they have this here because people die every

00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.180
year from being washed out into the water here.

00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:21.400
That's sad. I know. That would suck. But this

00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.880
goes to show why they needed a lighthouse here

00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:25.960
in the first place. So the first one was built

00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:30.720
in 1868 and was a 26 -foot tall wooden integral

00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.420
tower with a red light. Oh, we love integral

00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:35.160
towers. I know. We haven't talked about one in

00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:37.480
a long time. This nice old picture, you can see

00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:39.799
they have stabilizers on the side because the

00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:42.720
wind would get really high. Whoa. And the lighthouse

00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.779
was known to vibrate with the wind, so they added

00:22:45.779 --> 00:22:50.740
just these meaningless beams. Yeah, they're like...

00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:54.759
They're like kickers. When you're putting up

00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:57.480
framing for a building, you temporarily put these

00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:00.500
45 -degree angles of wood. They just permanently

00:23:00.500 --> 00:23:05.099
painted them. Also, what an interesting door

00:23:05.099 --> 00:23:09.000
design. Yeah, going up two sides. But it's like

00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.720
a porch that's enclosed, but it's not a porch?

00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.339
It's interesting. It is, yeah. Why two sides?

00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:19.000
I was going to say maybe it was a duplex and

00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.650
just had a weird... front entrance but i don't

00:23:21.650 --> 00:23:23.329
know if that's true because there's only one

00:23:23.329 --> 00:23:25.289
lighthouse keeper at a time so unnecessarily

00:23:25.289 --> 00:23:29.809
artistic it's a theme at peggy's cove cool photo

00:23:29.809 --> 00:23:34.670
yeah it is in 1897 a fifth order lens was installed

00:23:34.670 --> 00:23:38.630
and promptly was followed by an explosion in

00:23:38.630 --> 00:23:40.950
the lantern room fantastic we've heard of before

00:23:40.950 --> 00:23:43.529
there's never any reason given for this but i'm

00:23:43.529 --> 00:23:45.730
sure there's lots of stuff going on in the lantern

00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:49.440
room in the 1800s so They put the original lens

00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.259
that was in their back inside. I think it was

00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:57.160
just some metal reflectors. So they lost their

00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.319
lens really fast. And we know how expensive those

00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:05.799
are. Yeah, someone got fired. 1915, an octagonal

00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:07.980
light tower was built nearby as a replacement.

00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:14.420
I think it said like 15 yards away. That was

00:24:14.420 --> 00:24:18.730
crazy. Yeah, I felt the thunder in the floor.

00:24:18.869 --> 00:24:23.490
It shook the ground. No, Bo is hiding somewhere.

00:24:24.309 --> 00:24:27.289
Gotta be in the kitchen cabinet. It's where he

00:24:27.289 --> 00:24:30.650
hides when it storms. Love that. That was scary.

00:24:32.289 --> 00:24:36.529
15 yards away. It doesn't say why it was replaced.

00:24:36.789 --> 00:24:38.750
I don't know if it was just, it's a wooden tower,

00:24:38.869 --> 00:24:40.710
so eventually it just starts to get aged. Well,

00:24:40.750 --> 00:24:44.029
1915 is a long time later. Yeah, what did I say?

00:24:44.849 --> 00:24:48.890
1868. Yeah, so that's over 50 years of right

00:24:48.890 --> 00:24:51.009
on the water's edge, and we established this

00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:53.930
as a windy, really watery area. Yeah, it turns

00:24:53.930 --> 00:24:56.369
out vibrating houses don't last very long. Yeah,

00:24:56.490 --> 00:24:59.289
it was being put to the test. An explosion as

00:24:59.289 --> 00:25:03.690
well. Small insurance claim, like Allstate. Like

00:25:03.690 --> 00:25:05.589
a good neighbor, and you hop up, and there's

00:25:05.589 --> 00:25:09.230
an exploded rooftop. Well, I don't know how much

00:25:09.230 --> 00:25:11.890
we can do about that. So the old tower, they

00:25:11.890 --> 00:25:13.789
kept it and used it as the keeper's cottage.

00:25:14.170 --> 00:25:17.609
But the tower, the light itself was, oh, maybe

00:25:17.609 --> 00:25:19.990
they reused the lantern room. But I know that

00:25:19.990 --> 00:25:23.589
when they changed to just using this as the keeper's

00:25:23.589 --> 00:25:26.549
cottage, the lantern room wasn't on there anymore.

00:25:26.730 --> 00:25:30.200
Okay. It's a nice picture of the cove. It actually

00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.079
puts into perspective how small the area actually

00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:35.460
is. So from far away, when you take a picture,

00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.839
you can just see. Like in Google Maps, it's kind

00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.539
of hard to see what the scale of everything is.

00:25:40.700 --> 00:25:43.440
So in this old picture, after the new tower was

00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:45.759
built, you can kind of see how small the cove

00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.720
is. Really cool. Just a little spot. Historical

00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:51.059
fishing village. Yeah, cool place to visit. Yeah.

00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.119
The new tower was 50 feet tall with fixed red

00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.559
light, which they changed to white after a few

00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:58.359
years, and I'm not sure the reason for that either.

00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:01.720
There wasn't a whole lot of information on this

00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:05.819
one. It was kind of a shorter episode. Cool spot,

00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:09.099
though. Yeah. And it's really, I guess I don't

00:26:09.099 --> 00:26:10.539
know is the question, it's really kind of in

00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:12.940
the middle of nowhere. There's not, this highway

00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:15.400
it's along, there's not a whole lot of commerce

00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.210
going on, do you think? Is it still a fishing

00:26:19.210 --> 00:26:22.710
area? Yeah, it's still a fishing village. It's

00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:25.769
more like quaint, historical. People go there.

00:26:25.869 --> 00:26:29.549
I think I vaguely remember seeing that there

00:26:29.549 --> 00:26:32.230
are 50 permanent residents and everybody else

00:26:32.230 --> 00:26:35.069
has like a house there or visit as a tourist.

00:26:35.349 --> 00:26:37.529
Because Halifax, I think, is the biggest city

00:26:37.529 --> 00:26:39.970
in Nova Scotia. Big hockey team, if I remember

00:26:39.970 --> 00:26:43.130
right. Really? I think so. Maybe I'm making that

00:26:43.130 --> 00:26:45.230
up from a movie I saw. It does sound familiar,

00:26:45.289 --> 00:26:48.980
but a lot of Canada's... Towns are also in England?

00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:53.140
Yeah. Yeah, I noticed a lot of that. Halifax

00:26:53.140 --> 00:26:58.900
Hockey. Halifax Mooseheads. Look at that symbol.

00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:02.259
That's awesome. I am not much of a hockey person.

00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:07.920
You're right. Yeah. Oh, okay. A Canadian junior

00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.259
ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes. Junior?

00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.900
In Halifax, Nova Scotia. Not a pro team. Junior

00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:19.130
pro, looks like. All right. I tried. Well, still,

00:27:19.250 --> 00:27:21.950
I mean, you were right. It's out there. It's

00:27:21.950 --> 00:27:26.450
out there. There's hockey. 1954, a hurricane

00:27:26.450 --> 00:27:29.910
damaged the old tower, and it was removed. So

00:27:29.910 --> 00:27:32.190
that was the end of the first lighthouse. But

00:27:32.190 --> 00:27:35.750
we still have our 50 -foot tower. Four years

00:27:35.750 --> 00:27:37.970
later, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse is automated.

00:27:38.170 --> 00:27:41.410
The light had seven different keepers in its

00:27:41.410 --> 00:27:43.970
almost 100 -year history, with service ranging

00:27:43.970 --> 00:27:47.250
from four years to 24 years. There was like a

00:27:47.250 --> 00:27:49.250
lot of, there wasn't really a lot of in between.

00:27:49.329 --> 00:27:51.809
It was like, there was a lot of four year service

00:27:51.809 --> 00:27:53.990
and like six year service. And then there was

00:27:53.990 --> 00:27:56.509
a lot of 20 and 24 year service. Interesting.

00:27:56.549 --> 00:28:00.529
Yeah. And I could see why you'd hang out here

00:28:00.529 --> 00:28:04.029
for like a lot of your adult life as you're aging

00:28:04.029 --> 00:28:06.630
and stuff. It's like, it's a pretty quaint area.

00:28:07.069 --> 00:28:10.609
Yeah. That's all anyone wants. Yeah. Something

00:28:10.609 --> 00:28:12.970
quiet. People to hang out with in a pretty quiet

00:28:12.970 --> 00:28:16.109
spot. People that like you. It's stuff you like

00:28:16.109 --> 00:28:19.970
to do. If it has seafood and or steak, that's

00:28:19.970 --> 00:28:23.869
a bonus. That's a bonus. You like look off on.

00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:28.390
You're hungry. No, I'm just dreaming of retirement.

00:28:28.549 --> 00:28:30.329
Okay. One of those two things. I don't think

00:28:30.329 --> 00:28:32.829
of food when I think of like a perfect world.

00:28:34.970 --> 00:28:38.009
Please comment below. Oh, no. What you think

00:28:38.009 --> 00:28:41.569
of that. If you agree or disagree. You want to

00:28:41.569 --> 00:28:42.869
bring other people into this? When you think

00:28:42.869 --> 00:28:47.940
of a perfect world. Do you think of food? Do

00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:52.839
you think that's weird? No. I think I disagree.

00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:56.480
That's all. Okay. You just want more people on

00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:01.859
your side. Well. What are you going to... I see

00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:08.119
your little hand float. I'm moving on. I'm done

00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:13.079
with your little interruptions. Later, they changed

00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:18.049
the light to... Fixed green in the 70s. And then

00:29:18.049 --> 00:29:22.690
back to red in 2009. I have a picture. Why change

00:29:22.690 --> 00:29:25.950
the color so many times? Especially of the light.

00:29:26.009 --> 00:29:29.009
I think that's interesting. I've seen a... Yeah,

00:29:29.029 --> 00:29:32.750
the tower, like day marks have changed. But red

00:29:32.750 --> 00:29:35.089
and green is kind of nice. Yeah, this used to

00:29:35.089 --> 00:29:37.789
be all white the whole time. And then they painted

00:29:37.789 --> 00:29:41.869
the lantern room red in 1969 after it was already

00:29:41.869 --> 00:29:43.990
automated. So I think that's interesting. It

00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:46.829
is interesting. That was 100 years of it being

00:29:46.829 --> 00:29:48.789
a certain way. I mean, not this tower, but in

00:29:48.789 --> 00:29:51.630
general, the day mark was white and black. And

00:29:51.630 --> 00:29:54.589
now it's decided after it's automated to be white

00:29:54.589 --> 00:29:57.390
and red. It's interesting. So the green stayed

00:29:57.390 --> 00:29:59.950
all the way until 2009. So a lot of the pictures

00:29:59.950 --> 00:30:03.269
you see of the Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia,

00:30:03.269 --> 00:30:08.930
Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, is with the green light

00:30:08.930 --> 00:30:11.670
still. I actually kind of had a hard time finding

00:30:11.670 --> 00:30:13.549
a picture of it with its current light, which

00:30:13.549 --> 00:30:19.769
is red. It was white, red, green, red. It was

00:30:19.769 --> 00:30:24.049
red, white, green, red. Shoot. Brought it back

00:30:24.049 --> 00:30:29.220
to the OG red 2009. And actually, for a while,

00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:31.819
the lighthouse was a Canada post office in the

00:30:31.819 --> 00:30:35.140
lower level. What? Which is fun. Actually, I

00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.819
don't think it was that long ago that they stopped

00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:41.099
making it a post office because of concerns of

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:43.660
mold growth. Actually, I think it was at the

00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:46.160
same time that they changed the light to red

00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.839
that they also closed the post office. Okay.

00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.180
As far as I have seen. Interesting. It's kind

00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:55.099
of difficult. The amount... Of conflicting information

00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:59.359
on this lighthouse online is mind -boggling.

00:30:59.740 --> 00:31:02.519
That'll happen sometimes. You just have to choose

00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.980
what you think is right. Pick one and go with

00:31:03.980 --> 00:31:08.039
it. Yeah, that's the problem. There's no way

00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.759
to tell what is the truth. You just have to run

00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:14.519
with something. I just tried to find some piece

00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.339
of information that's listed twice, and then

00:31:17.339 --> 00:31:21.960
I'm like, okay. It's confirmed -ish. Most of

00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.579
the time, everything's lined up, but lighthouses

00:31:24.579 --> 00:31:26.380
like these that don't have a lot of information,

00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:28.480
and I'm like, I've got all these different references

00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:30.759
because I'm trying to piece stuff together. Especially

00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.559
foreign lighthouses from the United States. It's

00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:36.660
hard, even Canadian, because they just don't

00:31:36.660 --> 00:31:38.839
have the same records. Yeah, they closed the

00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:40.680
post office, but while it was open, you could

00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:43.319
send out letters, and you would get a special

00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.410
cancellation stamp. in the shape of a lighthouse.

00:31:46.710 --> 00:31:49.549
So cancellation stamp is the mark they put on

00:31:49.549 --> 00:31:51.390
top of your stamp when they send it through the

00:31:51.390 --> 00:31:53.289
post office. So you can't like unstick it and

00:31:53.289 --> 00:31:56.849
reuse it. We saw that with the Tylenol murders

00:31:56.849 --> 00:32:00.009
on Netflix. What are you talking about? The guy

00:32:00.009 --> 00:32:02.670
sent the letter from New York city. Oh yes. But

00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:04.829
with the little, the little squiggly lines, like

00:32:04.829 --> 00:32:08.109
this guy who was trying to, how did I say? It

00:32:08.109 --> 00:32:10.809
was, um, He's trying to take credit for the Tylenol

00:32:10.809 --> 00:32:13.710
murders. As somebody else in order to get them

00:32:13.710 --> 00:32:16.250
in trouble. And they're like, well, he addressed

00:32:16.250 --> 00:32:19.690
it from Chicago, but when you send it, they stamp

00:32:19.690 --> 00:32:22.470
it with where it was sent from. They showed the

00:32:22.470 --> 00:32:24.690
stamp. It was like, New York City. Yeah. Like,

00:32:24.769 --> 00:32:28.089
you idiot. So there's no way this person was

00:32:28.089 --> 00:32:31.869
in Chicago. Yeah. Everyone should go listen to

00:32:31.869 --> 00:32:34.990
that. A little plug for a Netflix show. The Tylenol

00:32:34.990 --> 00:32:37.750
murders. They need us. It was really good. Vince

00:32:37.750 --> 00:32:42.910
didn't like it because it's a cold case. Yeah.

00:32:43.069 --> 00:32:46.829
Spoiler. It's a cold case. It says it on there.

00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:51.130
I didn't know. That was something that I just

00:32:51.130 --> 00:32:53.230
didn't mention to you because I knew that you

00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:55.829
wouldn't want to finish it. Oh, my gosh. I've

00:32:55.829 --> 00:33:02.329
been catfished. My own home. I'm sorry. All right.

00:33:02.329 --> 00:33:05.279
Let me see. Where am I? stamp lighthouse closed

00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:09.700
yeah mold growth closed the post office 2010

00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:13.079
the canadian coast guard declared the lighthouse

00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.819
as surplus along with most of the lighthouses

00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:21.140
in canada like large large majority of the lighthouses

00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:25.359
and the lighthouses had until 2012 to be claimed

00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:27.720
by someone to take care of them or else they

00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:31.480
would face destruction that's fast i know So

00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:33.640
the Heritage Lighthouse Preservation Act was

00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:36.819
passed in that year with 74 lighthouses protected

00:33:36.819 --> 00:33:39.839
on it. So 74 lighthouses were claimed by somebody

00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:42.539
and they would do the upkeep, which the Coast

00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:46.240
Guard still uses the light. It's just that the

00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.220
structure, they would replace the structure with

00:33:49.220 --> 00:33:53.000
a light on a stick in order because they're not

00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.720
going to do maintenance on all these lighthouses.

00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:59.299
So 74 lighthouses on there. It didn't include

00:33:59.299 --> 00:34:03.920
Peggy's Cove. And now, over 100 lighthouses are

00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:06.559
on the list, which are kept up to date on the

00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.380
Parks Canada website. So you can go and actually

00:34:09.380 --> 00:34:11.179
look through all the lighthouses that are on

00:34:11.179 --> 00:34:14.760
this preservation act. Unfortunately, still does

00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.719
not include Peggy. But somebody's taking care

00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:19.800
of Peggy. And I can't figure out what's going

00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.760
on. I did see that a local painter's union comes

00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.000
to paint every few years. So visually, looks

00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.269
nice. It could be owned by the city too. I mean,

00:34:30.269 --> 00:34:33.369
it's just. No. Okay. There's the other thing.

00:34:33.489 --> 00:34:37.730
Nova Scotia's premier, who I think is like their

00:34:37.730 --> 00:34:40.989
governor. I'm not sure. Okay. Daryl Dexter. He

00:34:40.989 --> 00:34:43.630
said the province itself was negotiating taking

00:34:43.630 --> 00:34:46.110
over the light, but they didn't. That was whenever

00:34:46.110 --> 00:34:49.329
it first was declared a surplus. The Preservation

00:34:49.329 --> 00:34:52.989
Society website says on the same page that it

00:34:52.989 --> 00:34:56.429
is and isn't operational. Like in two different

00:34:56.429 --> 00:34:59.750
spots on the same page, it says still operational.

00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:03.349
And then up, it says no longer operational. So

00:35:03.349 --> 00:35:07.369
it's just hard to, I just can't tell. There's

00:35:07.369 --> 00:35:09.510
a Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society

00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:13.190
that was also formed in 1993. And they have a

00:35:13.190 --> 00:35:14.909
hand in a lot of preservation work over there.

00:35:14.969 --> 00:35:17.730
But I don't know if Peggy's Cove is on the list.

00:35:17.869 --> 00:35:20.349
Well, it could be that it's someone taking care

00:35:20.349 --> 00:35:23.030
of it. This is not part of the preservation act

00:35:23.030 --> 00:35:26.010
or preservation society. Yeah. Like we have in

00:35:26.010 --> 00:35:27.570
the United States, there's people taking care

00:35:27.570 --> 00:35:29.329
of lighthouses because they own them or they

00:35:29.329 --> 00:35:31.769
have an interest in them as a volunteer, even

00:35:31.769 --> 00:35:34.590
though they weren't in the Lighthouse Preservation

00:35:34.590 --> 00:35:38.269
Act, which is 2000, somewhere around there, circa

00:35:38.269 --> 00:35:41.710
2000. So similar type of story, I would guess.

00:35:41.809 --> 00:35:44.530
And honestly, if I was involved at all with that

00:35:44.530 --> 00:35:48.489
city of Peggy's Cove and you have any tourism,

00:35:48.590 --> 00:35:51.929
like we've talked about a dozen times, you know,

00:35:51.929 --> 00:35:54.510
it's a good draw for people. For photo opportunities

00:35:54.510 --> 00:35:56.849
and tourism. Most photographed lighthouse in

00:35:56.849 --> 00:36:00.769
Canada. You got to keep it. So somebody's in

00:36:00.769 --> 00:36:03.289
charge of it. My problem is just that I cannot

00:36:03.289 --> 00:36:06.730
find who owns this lighthouse. Somebody has to.

00:36:07.650 --> 00:36:10.289
Yeah. But I can't find it. May not be public

00:36:10.289 --> 00:36:13.570
record if it's United States versus. It's a little

00:36:13.570 --> 00:36:17.780
secret. But that's it. That's like all I got.

00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:19.559
It's a great lighthouse. Everybody loves a little

00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.739
cove town. Yeah. Little red and white lighthouse.

00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:26.300
Did you look at the restaurants available nearby?

00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:30.739
No. Okay. But in my show notes, remember food

00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:33.579
is not in the perfect world. In the show notes,

00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:41.980
show notes have lots of tourist sites where they

00:36:41.980 --> 00:36:44.079
talk about they visited, they went here, they

00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.980
went there, they saw this. And so there is food

00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:48.860
listed in there. It's just there's a bunch of

00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:52.639
different places. Nice. But you guys can scroll

00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:54.340
through. I'm sure there are some well -known

00:36:54.340 --> 00:36:58.380
places. This is a popular destination to visit.

00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.539
So there's got to be lots of good recommendations

00:37:01.539 --> 00:37:04.280
out there. If your perfect world includes food,

00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:08.019
that's what you need to look for. Mine includes

00:37:08.019 --> 00:37:11.449
lighthouses for sure. I like it. Yeah, it's a

00:37:11.449 --> 00:37:13.849
cute one. Peggy's Cove. Yeah, nice tie -in. Cute

00:37:13.849 --> 00:37:16.869
little name. Bowie to episode. Yeah. Good number.

00:37:16.949 --> 00:37:19.090
That's how I found the lighthouse route was because

00:37:19.090 --> 00:37:21.090
Peggy's Cove is on it. I can't remember what

00:37:21.090 --> 00:37:24.030
I researched to find Peggy's Cove. I've talked

00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:26.489
about this before, but I type in something and

00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:28.730
end up with a lighthouse that's not related to

00:37:28.730 --> 00:37:30.510
what I researched. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure

00:37:30.510 --> 00:37:33.530
I looked up most remote lighthouse in Canada,

00:37:33.650 --> 00:37:35.389
I think is what I looked up. It's like most photographed.

00:37:35.630 --> 00:37:36.949
Most photographed, yeah. I'm like, oh, what is

00:37:36.949 --> 00:37:40.590
this? You said most, right? So that's basically

00:37:40.590 --> 00:37:42.809
it. Peggy's Cove Lighthouse and the lighthouse

00:37:42.809 --> 00:37:46.389
wrap. I like. Thumbs up. Let's see. I got one

00:37:46.389 --> 00:37:47.710
more episode and then it's going to be Vince

00:37:47.710 --> 00:37:50.210
again. So I hope you blow us away with something

00:37:50.210 --> 00:37:54.949
really good. Yep. Maybe a U .S. lighthouse. Maybe.

00:37:55.070 --> 00:37:56.409
You haven't covered a lighthouse in a while.

00:37:56.670 --> 00:38:01.909
Well, I am going to Sweden here. I know. Shortly.

00:38:01.989 --> 00:38:04.630
So in any case, I'm just saying. Maybe you should

00:38:04.630 --> 00:38:07.829
cover a Swedish one. That's what I was hinting

00:38:07.829 --> 00:38:09.969
at. But, you know, you never let them know your

00:38:09.969 --> 00:38:16.500
next move. Takes off. No, he's leaving. Vince.

00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:24.320
Vince. Never. Never let him know. On that note,

00:38:24.380 --> 00:38:25.800
you actually could have just stayed away except

00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:27.900
I needed someone to press the outro button. That's

00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:31.739
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