Episode 79 - Peggy's Cove Lighthouse

0:00 Hi everyone, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this is The Lighthouse Lowdown. I tried to get you with that one. My finger was hovering on the button. I know. I realized as I paused that you weren't going in hard enough for me to catch you in the act, you know. Vince wants to talk about coffee. I got an iced coffee today, which is different than the latest. Freezes we've had from Dutch Bros. I guess I could branch out, but in my head, Dutch Bros is for the Golden Eagle, and that's it. Which is like a... Because it's special. I mean, all those drinks are super sweet. Yeah. And I can get an iced coffee anywhere, which is what I usually get from scooters. Well, I'm pretty sure that I saw them put chocolate milk in mine today. I don't remember what it's called, but... Interesting. So, it is... Chocolate milk with espresso, basically. It actually sounds delicious. I think what I don't like about mocha, the reason why I don't like mocha is because it doesn't taste like chocolate to me. It tastes like... Yeah, it's got some bitterness to it because it's cocoa. Yeah. Typically. That must be it. It's just like too pungent. I think chocolate milk sounds a lot better than that. It's like the spice of chocolateness. Ew. Some people like spicy chocolate, though. I would despise that.

1:23 Like people that like spicy margaritas. So gross. Anyway. Sorry to our listeners that like spicy margaritas. But you're wrong. Keep it to yourself. History buoy for the day. Nice. You know, you're right. It is nice. And I have not failed. at providing a lighthouse buoy in a really long time. I'm pretty sure, like, since last year. I mean, what episode are we on? 79? 79. So I forget every time that there's lighthouse buoys. Wait, what are you talking about? Like, I was just, oh, yeah, lighthouse buoy. Oh, pleasantly surprised? We've done this almost 80 times. But you like them? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Today's episode buoy is the Canadian lighthouse route.

2:16 I don't know this one. It made me think of, you did a lighthouse. Oh, a hike, right? Yeah, the Faro de Caminos. Caminos de Faros. I speak zero Spanish, but it was in Spain. And there's a, yeah, anyways. So it was a whole episode we did. It wasn't a lighthouse buoy. Okay. But yeah, it was a path of lighthouses that you could also hike along the coast of Spain that ended in Land's End. Yes, the end of the world or whatever. No, I don't know. It was too long ago to remember the details. But you guys can go listen to the episode that talks about that if you want to. You might want to after hearing this history boy, which is rocking. Same vibe driving Nova Scotia. Okay. So for people that don't know, that's Canada. In Nova Scotia alone, I think there's like 160 lighthouses. 50, about... Hang that cord up. You know, over here, I was desperately trying to find something to prop my foot up on, and I just didn't notice that I was... I was like, what is that sound coming from? It was like my own leg touching our equipment. Yeah, so I don't know what other... Hold on. I don't...

3:38 Okay. She still didn't do what I pointed her to do. I don't know what other Lighthouse podcasters do, but we have these really nice microphones, and if you touch the cord, this is what you hear. If you touch the stand, oh, that's pretty much isolated. That's not bad. Because we've got those little spring isolators. If you touch the table, sometimes even putting down the cup. Anyways, so we do our best here, folks. Sometimes stuff happens. Sometimes you're going to hear, you know. And just imagine if you're not here. We have these giant headphones on listening to ourselves.

4:24 Yeah, sometimes I can't tell if it's something that's coming through the audio or if it's just like muffled in real life. Yeah, like there's thunder outside right now. Yeah. So like. Yeah, we had a tornado hit the Chiefs Stadium today. Did it actually? I don't know for sure if there's, like, damage, but it definitely was on the ground over the stadium. Some people would be like, oh, yeah. People said they'll just blame it on the refs or something. Like, good one. That's kind of funny. Anyway, what was I saying? Lighthouse, Canada, Nova Scotia. There's around 50 lighthouses of the 160 that are available to the public.

5:04 So that's a pretty good percentage. And I'll pull up a picture. Of Nova Scotia. Well, the part that we're talking about today. I guess I just gave away that we're staying in Nova Scotia. Anyway, the lighthouse route. Okay, I'm back on. That was me. I can't find a good spot for my feet. Just put them on the floor. I can't reach the floor. You're on the stool. Put them on the stool bar. It's not the same. I just like to have my feet propped up. Oh my gosh. The lighthouse route. It's not called the Canadian Lighthouse Route. It's just the Lighthouse Route. But I feel like there's bound to be others. So I just specified that it's Canadian. Includes the southern part of the province of Nova Scotia. Going all the way along the coastline for a total of 339 kilometers. That is what I have a picture of.

6:02 The Lighthouse Route and what's called the Evangeline Trail, I think. Let me check. Yeah, the Evangeline Trail. So in the picture I pulled up, where it says 11, that's also the start point, Halifax. So from 1 to 7 is the Lighthouse Route. So the south part of the bottom of Nova Scotia, and then you start to come up the side, and then from 7 to 11 is the Evangeline Trail. So I'm doing kind of both. And all together, the lighthouse way. Like this all together. Lighthouse route is the first half. And then the last half is the Evangeline Trail. But there's so many lighthouses up there that it's kind of suggested that you do the whole thing. Maybe it is 339 is lighthouse route. Because the whole thing is over 1 ,000 kilometers. 652 miles. Okay. Easy drive. That's what we're looking at. What we have up is they were talking about driving it in an RV or something.

7:06 So it's split up by days that you spend there. Oh, yeah, nice. Like camping out. Right. I'm not going to go so deep. They went really deep into that, and I have that in the show notes. So if anybody wants to open that link, take a look on what they suggest. what they tell you to look at at each place, but I focused on lighthouses. This link didn't have all the lighthouses, so I left it behind. But the route covers a few lighthouses and several picturesque towns, including Halifax, Liverpool, Yarmouth, some other stuff. And so you start at Halifax and drive south, and you first hit Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, which is actually the most photographed in Canada, some say. Peggy. And Fort Point Lighthouse, which is a replica of the original lighthouse, plus also a big museum. Okay. So these are like, we'll have to keep them on the list. These are ones we'll have to cover. And then there's another Fort Point Lighthouse in Liverpool. So same name, very close together, but different lighthouses.

8:10 And on the way there, you can also see Port Medway Lighthouse. And then Yarmouth is the last stop on the lighthouse route. And on the way, you'll see Sandy Point Lighthouse, Seal Island, and Cape Sable Lighthouse. And then, so that's just the first part. So there's not actually as many lighthouses as you would think on the lighthouse route. It's just kind of called that, I think, probably because of the big ones that I just mentioned. What? That was like seven you said right there, right? Let's see. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Wow. Boom. Great. I can't speak. Passive counting. But, you know, we're on this. I'm like over here, fingers and toes.

8:56 One, two. Okay, that's three. So, lighthouse route. It doesn't have the most lighthouses, but I think it has some big ones. So if you continue along the coastline of Nova Scotia and start going north again, that's when you hit a lot of lighthouses. Yeah, when you get up to Muscadoubolt Harbor. Digby, Annapolis Royal. How do you say that? What is that? What? Muscadoubolt? Oh, Muscadoubolt. I don't know. I don't know. How dare you ask me to pronounce something? Well, I threw it out there first. Shoot. So anyway, if you keep going all the way around into a big circle, there's a bunch of lighthouses up top. And somebody did this drive and listed a lot of the lighthouses that they saw. So the next one they had was Cape Fortue, which is the tallest in Nova Scotia at 123 feet. So Nova Scotia's lighthouses are on the shorter side, if 123 feet, which is still a lot. But for that to be the tallest lighthouse there is cute. And then we have Cape St. Mary Lighthouse, Church Point, Bellevue Cove, Gilbert's Cove, Digby Pier, Point Prim Lighthouse, and so many more to see. That's a lot. To be fair, we learned that taller lighthouses are not necessarily

10:27 better. Oh, of course. For range, for initial cost, for maintenance, for climbing. But it's very America that I think we have. Don't we have the tallest lighthouses? We have a lot of tall lighthouses. Probably on average, if not the tallest. Yeah. We have the tallest lighthouses. Because like the only really tall lighthouses they have overseas are because they were supposed to be symbols of power. Yeah. So then they built them to be really tall just for that and not for like. Yeah. So like America is like, we need a bigger one. We need more bigger ones. We're going to build a bunch of them. Where, you know, you can be below the fog in a like triangle island light, for example. Super, which is actually, is that technically? It is Canada, technically.

11:12 Yeah. But it was built on this high cliff and it was actually above the weather, which for a ship is not useful. No. Didn't you say it was like 400 feet in the air? It was way up there. Yeah, 600, I want to say. Something wild for an island. Something fell like 600 feet. Anyways, that's a whole episode. Another Canada lighthouse. You want to go see it? That was a long time ago. We recorded that when I broke my foot. That might have been my first one. No. I think that was your first one. Yeah. Well, cool. That's the end of my history buoy. Nice. So just a little thing for our listeners. If they are adventurous, want to travel, see a bunch of lighthouses. There's a lot in Nova Scotia, so check it out. And we're going to go into our episode today, which we're staying in Nova Scotia, as I spoiled earlier.

12:06 Canada. Yeah, staying in Canada. And we're covering the most photographed lighthouse in Canada and most photographed landmark in Nova Scotia, which is Peggy's Cove Lighthouse. Peggy's Cove. First point to make. is that Peggy's Cove's official name is actually Peggy's Point Lighthouse. That's been true the entire time. But for some reason, it's referred to as Peggy's Cove, and they just... You have to be okay with it, because that's what people are going to call it. That's weird. Because actually, Peggy's Cove is... Let me show a picture.

12:48 So you can see the cove is actually... past the point it's like yeah so the cove is physically north but the point is clearly like a peninsula yeah it's a point so the cove in the point peggy's cove lighthouse is to mark the point and not the cove the cove is actually marked by a light anyway owned by the government oh i don't know if it's called peggy's cove lighthouse but i i think it's more of just like a light like a small government light and then this what well the road out there is called peggy's point road oh yeah Okay, so. Which is, oh, that's the official name. Yeah. But the local's name is Peggy's Cove. I don't know. See, yeah, it's Peggy's Cove Viewing Platform, Peggy's Cove Gift Shop, Peggy's Cove Car Park. Tom's Lobster Shack. But there is a Peggy's Cove, so it's just that the lighthouse is actually called Peggy's Point. So keep that in mind. I'm going to keep calling it Peggy's Cove because it's just widely accepted that that's what it's referred to. I accept that. There's some speculation on where the name for the cove came from, which was one of the interesting things I saw while I was researching. This is the edge of St. Margaret's Bay. So I don't have the full Google image, but if you go up from this picture, all that water is St. Margaret's Bay, and it goes up further. So Peggy is apparently a nickname for Margaret. I don't know how. Like there's

14:19 no P in Margaret. Wait. How does Peggy become a nickname? I don't understand that at all. I know. Like Richard and Dick. Yeah. But. It's the same. Peggy. Peggy Margaret. It's a real thing. So anyway, the most reasonable explanation is that Peggy's Cove is in reference to St. Margaret's Bay. Like, you know, tiny little body of water. Like a little Margaret. Coming off. You're like, oh. It's actually Peggy's Cove, a little nickname. The fun idea is that there was a shipwreck a long time ago in the cove, and the only survivor was a woman named Peggy. And she stayed there for the rest of her life. She married, had kids.

15:01 And so there's a lot of people that stand by that this is why the cove was named Peggy's Cove. And there are some people that even claim that they're her descendants. Do you think that makes sense? What? Let's say you're on a ship, okay, Who knows what year? Not 1970. And then the ship crashes and you're the only survivor. Do you just stay and live a whole legendary life where your ship happened to crash? Thinking of... Seems... A long time ago. Sus. Well, what would you do? I'd try to go back where I was from. If you're a woman, you have... No way of doing that. So you think actually she could have been freed by the ship crashing and everyone else dying.

15:48 Maybe she caused it. Oh my gosh. What are you talking about? Well, like social, like she, like she was meant, I mean, I don't know. She says like what the situation was, but she probably didn't have like, you know, her own cell phone or her own bank account. So I'm just saying, you know, like maybe the shipwreck because she survived was actually fortunate for her. And so, you know, this could make sense then. I think that she was probably somebody's wife or something from a merchant coming on a ship, right? And then it crashes, she loses everything. I'm assuming this was long enough ago for things to still be named, so it had to have been like 1400s or something. Yeah, but they used to say that women on board was bad luck. There's so very rarely ever a woman on board a ship. That it was actually bad luck. Yeah, but if she's coming to live over here, like, you know, people came to the new world. I guess we'll have to leave it at legend.

16:47 Well, how did we get to speculating about... We can't interview her, so... I think that there's no way for you to contact people back home. Nobody's ever going to know that you crashed. You can't go looking. If you find people... that are willing to take you in, you have nowhere else to go. There's no reason for a woman at this time to go searching for anything else. She just needs to start a new life. That's so crazy. Maybe she was a child at that time. Peggy's kind of like a nickname for a child. Or like a little version of Margaret. That's going to be in our quiz whenever I do a quiz on the show. It's been so long since we did it. I'm just going to put it out there.

17:37 We're going to do a Lighthouse Cocktail Hour with at least one more or two of our friends. So I don't get to be a part of the quiz? No, you'll be there. I told you, I'm serving drinks. You're going to compete against them in this quiz. I'm going to crush them. No, no, no. Your questions are going to be harder than theirs. What? Absolutely. I hope I'm not wrong. That's unfair. No, it is fair because you're the host of the show. You're actually the founder of the Lighthouse Slowdown. So what are you doing? You're like listening to the episodes all the way back? I'm not going to tell you all that secret. I want to know how accurate you're going to be. You can't study. I would not. They'll have questions like, you know, which of these is the lighthouse that's the tallest? And it's going to be clearly, you know, you would know. Absolutely. And then.

18:25 they won't know unless they listen to our show and i'm giving them research now except they're not going to listen to this i bet the people i'm thinking about and then uh your questions are going to be harder based on the history of our show or facts that i know that you've heard we've already established from our our most uh some of our recent episodes that i don't remember things perfectly and will defend them even if i'm wrong i will have citations What? It's going to be fun. It's going to be a fun lighthouse cocktail hour. I'm kind of scared. What if I look like an idiot? You know? You don't have to worry about that. I think I do. You're going to be like, what's something you, how many flash panels on this Fresnel lens that you covered in episode 13? It'll be multiple choice. I'm going to be like, uh. It'll be multiple choice and I'm not going to get, just let me do this.

19:21 All right. Okay, because I want to have fun, and the only way to have fun is if I'm getting most of them right. All right. Peggy is the reason that we named this Peggy's Cove. Allegedly. And we don't know if that Peggy is a bay or a woman, and that's all we have to say about it. So the area is known for being really unpredictable when it comes to waves. I mean, obviously, we ended up with a lighthouse out here, but... the sea will appear calm. And I have the picture up so you can see the side that's facing the bay and the cove are super calm. And then right at the corner and onward, you can just see how choppy the water is. Yeah, a little more rock and roll. You can see the currents and the foam and the waves and everything. So it's unpredictable and also gives you a false sense of security coming up from one side. of peggy's point when the other side is a super aggressive waves and everything safe on one side yeah and these rocks are like smoothed out so they can be really slippery and you'll see picture later but they tell you when you come out here that if you're not if you're not walking on white rock then you're in a danger zone because obviously when the rock gets wet you can see it's like dark gray So it's supposed to mark areas that are safer. So you're on White Rock. But anyway, there's just been

20:51 a lot of instances where a wave will just splash up. No warning or anything. Everything will be totally calm. And then a wave comes out of nowhere and will sweep people out. And there's like really strong tides and currents and stuff over here. So they actually have warning plaques on the rocks. It says warning. Injury and death have rewarded careless sightseers here. The ocean and rocks are treacherous. Savor the sea from a distance. What a wording. I know. Well, the complaint from a lot of people who visit is that it looks like not a current thing you have to worry about. It's a plaque. Yeah, it seems like a historical thing. There's been lots of people who have died here. It doesn't look like. Hear ye, hear ye. Yeah. It doesn't. It's not really saying like you tourist stay away from the water.

21:44 You know how those signs usually are. Yeah. Upright. Sharks here. And they're white and they're red and they're plastic. This one's like. We're going to use the word treacherous. A metal plaque on the ground. I don't know. I would see that. It's so unnecessarily artistic. I know. That's the thing. It looks like it's something that, like a museum, like it would say Peggy's Cove on it. But they have this here because people die every year from being washed out into the water here. That's sad. I know. That would suck. But this goes to show why they needed a lighthouse here in the first place. So the first one was built in 1868 and was a 26 -foot tall wooden integral tower with a red light. Oh, we love integral towers. I know. We haven't talked about one in a long time. This nice old picture, you can see they have stabilizers on the side because the wind would get really high. Whoa. And the lighthouse was known to vibrate with the wind, so they added just these meaningless beams. Yeah, they're like...

22:51 They're like kickers. When you're putting up framing for a building, you temporarily put these 45 -degree angles of wood. They just permanently painted them. Also, what an interesting door design. Yeah, going up two sides. But it's like a porch that's enclosed, but it's not a porch? It's interesting. It is, yeah. Why two sides? I was going to say maybe it was a duplex and just had a weird... front entrance but i don't know if that's true because there's only one lighthouse keeper at a time so unnecessarily artistic it's a theme at peggy's cove cool photo yeah it is in 1897 a fifth order lens was installed and promptly was followed by an explosion in the lantern room fantastic we've heard of before there's never any reason given for this but i'm sure there's lots of stuff going on in the lantern room in the 1800s so They put the original lens that was in their back inside. I think it was just some metal reflectors. So they lost their lens really fast. And we know how expensive those are. Yeah, someone got fired. 1915, an octagonal light tower was built nearby as a replacement.

24:08 I think it said like 15 yards away. That was crazy. Yeah, I felt the thunder in the floor. It shook the ground. No, Bo is hiding somewhere. Gotta be in the kitchen cabinet. It's where he hides when it storms. Love that. That was scary. 15 yards away. It doesn't say why it was replaced. I don't know if it was just, it's a wooden tower, so eventually it just starts to get aged. Well, 1915 is a long time later. Yeah, what did I say? 1868. Yeah, so that's over 50 years of right on the water's edge, and we established this as a windy, really watery area. Yeah, it turns out vibrating houses don't last very long. Yeah, it was being put to the test. An explosion as well. Small insurance claim, like Allstate. Like a good neighbor, and you hop up, and there's an exploded rooftop. Well, I don't know how much we can do about that. So the old tower, they kept it and used it as the keeper's cottage.

25:14 But the tower, the light itself was, oh, maybe they reused the lantern room. But I know that when they changed to just using this as the keeper's cottage, the lantern room wasn't on there anymore. Okay. It's a nice picture of the cove. It actually puts into perspective how small the area actually is. So from far away, when you take a picture, you can just see. Like in Google Maps, it's kind of hard to see what the scale of everything is. So in this old picture, after the new tower was built, you can kind of see how small the cove is. Really cool. Just a little spot. Historical fishing village. Yeah, cool place to visit. Yeah. The new tower was 50 feet tall with fixed red light, which they changed to white after a few years, and I'm not sure the reason for that either.

25:59 There wasn't a whole lot of information on this one. It was kind of a shorter episode. Cool spot, though. Yeah. And it's really, I guess I don't know is the question, it's really kind of in the middle of nowhere. There's not, this highway it's along, there's not a whole lot of commerce going on, do you think? Is it still a fishing area? Yeah, it's still a fishing village. It's more like quaint, historical. People go there. I think I vaguely remember seeing that there are 50 permanent residents and everybody else has like a house there or visit as a tourist. Because Halifax, I think, is the biggest city in Nova Scotia. Big hockey team, if I remember right. Really? I think so. Maybe I'm making that up from a movie I saw. It does sound familiar, but a lot of Canada's... Towns are also in England?

26:49 Yeah. Yeah, I noticed a lot of that. Halifax Hockey. Halifax Mooseheads. Look at that symbol. That's awesome. I am not much of a hockey person. You're right. Yeah. Oh, okay. A Canadian junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes. Junior? In Halifax, Nova Scotia. Not a pro team. Junior pro, looks like. All right. I tried. Well, still, I mean, you were right. It's out there. It's out there. There's hockey. 1954, a hurricane damaged the old tower, and it was removed. So that was the end of the first lighthouse. But we still have our 50 -foot tower. Four years later, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse is automated.

27:38 The light had seven different keepers in its almost 100 -year history, with service ranging from four years to 24 years. There was like a lot of, there wasn't really a lot of in between. It was like, there was a lot of four year service and like six year service. And then there was a lot of 20 and 24 year service. Interesting. Yeah. And I could see why you'd hang out here for like a lot of your adult life as you're aging and stuff. It's like, it's a pretty quaint area. Yeah. That's all anyone wants. Yeah. Something quiet. People to hang out with in a pretty quiet spot. People that like you. It's stuff you like to do. If it has seafood and or steak, that's a bonus. That's a bonus. You like look off on.

28:25 You're hungry. No, I'm just dreaming of retirement. Okay. One of those two things. I don't think of food when I think of like a perfect world. Please comment below. Oh, no. What you think of that. If you agree or disagree. You want to bring other people into this? When you think of a perfect world. Do you think of food? Do you think that's weird? No. I think I disagree. That's all. Okay. You just want more people on your side. Well. What are you going to... I see your little hand float. I'm moving on. I'm done with your little interruptions. Later, they changed the light to... Fixed green in the 70s. And then back to red in 2009. I have a picture. Why change the color so many times? Especially of the light.

29:26 I think that's interesting. I've seen a... Yeah, the tower, like day marks have changed. But red and green is kind of nice. Yeah, this used to be all white the whole time. And then they painted the lantern room red in 1969 after it was already automated. So I think that's interesting. It is interesting. That was 100 years of it being a certain way. I mean, not this tower, but in general, the day mark was white and black. And now it's decided after it's automated to be white and red. It's interesting. So the green stayed all the way until 2009. So a lot of the pictures you see of the Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, is with the green light still. I actually kind of had a hard time finding a picture of it with its current light, which is red. It was white, red, green, red. It was red, white, green, red. Shoot. Brought it back to the OG red 2009. And actually, for a while, the lighthouse was a Canada post office in the lower level. What? Which is fun. Actually, I don't think it was that long ago that they stopped making it a post office because of concerns of mold growth. Actually, I think it was at the same time that they changed the light to red that they also closed the post office. Okay.

30:48 As far as I have seen. Interesting. It's kind of difficult. The amount... Of conflicting information on this lighthouse online is mind -boggling. That'll happen sometimes. You just have to choose what you think is right. Pick one and go with it. Yeah, that's the problem. There's no way to tell what is the truth. You just have to run with something. I just tried to find some piece of information that's listed twice, and then I'm like, okay. It's confirmed -ish. Most of the time, everything's lined up, but lighthouses like these that don't have a lot of information, and I'm like, I've got all these different references because I'm trying to piece stuff together. Especially foreign lighthouses from the United States. It's hard, even Canadian, because they just don't have the same records. Yeah, they closed the post office, but while it was open, you could send out letters, and you would get a special cancellation stamp. in the shape of a lighthouse.

31:46 So cancellation stamp is the mark they put on top of your stamp when they send it through the post office. So you can't like unstick it and reuse it. We saw that with the Tylenol murders on Netflix. What are you talking about? The guy sent the letter from New York city. Oh yes. But with the little, the little squiggly lines, like this guy who was trying to, how did I say? It was, um, He's trying to take credit for the Tylenol murders. As somebody else in order to get them in trouble. And they're like, well, he addressed it from Chicago, but when you send it, they stamp it with where it was sent from. They showed the stamp. It was like, New York City. Yeah. Like, you idiot. So there's no way this person was in Chicago. Yeah. Everyone should go listen to that. A little plug for a Netflix show. The Tylenol murders. They need us. It was really good. Vince didn't like it because it's a cold case. Yeah.

32:43 Spoiler. It's a cold case. It says it on there. I didn't know. That was something that I just didn't mention to you because I knew that you wouldn't want to finish it. Oh, my gosh. I've been catfished. My own home. I'm sorry. All right. Let me see. Where am I? stamp lighthouse closed yeah mold growth closed the post office 2010 the canadian coast guard declared the lighthouse as surplus along with most of the lighthouses in canada like large large majority of the lighthouses and the lighthouses had until 2012 to be claimed by someone to take care of them or else they would face destruction that's fast i know So the Heritage Lighthouse Preservation Act was passed in that year with 74 lighthouses protected on it. So 74 lighthouses were claimed by somebody and they would do the upkeep, which the Coast Guard still uses the light. It's just that the structure, they would replace the structure with a light on a stick in order because they're not going to do maintenance on all these lighthouses.

33:55 So 74 lighthouses on there. It didn't include Peggy's Cove. And now, over 100 lighthouses are on the list, which are kept up to date on the Parks Canada website. So you can go and actually look through all the lighthouses that are on this preservation act. Unfortunately, still does not include Peggy. But somebody's taking care of Peggy. And I can't figure out what's going on. I did see that a local painter's union comes to paint every few years. So visually, looks nice. It could be owned by the city too. I mean, it's just. No. Okay. There's the other thing. Nova Scotia's premier, who I think is like their governor. I'm not sure. Okay. Daryl Dexter. He said the province itself was negotiating taking over the light, but they didn't. That was whenever it first was declared a surplus. The Preservation Society website says on the same page that it is and isn't operational. Like in two different spots on the same page, it says still operational.

34:59 And then up, it says no longer operational. So it's just hard to, I just can't tell. There's a Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society that was also formed in 1993. And they have a hand in a lot of preservation work over there. But I don't know if Peggy's Cove is on the list. Well, it could be that it's someone taking care of it. This is not part of the preservation act or preservation society. Yeah. Like we have in the United States, there's people taking care of lighthouses because they own them or they have an interest in them as a volunteer, even though they weren't in the Lighthouse Preservation Act, which is 2000, somewhere around there, circa 2000. So similar type of story, I would guess.

35:41 And honestly, if I was involved at all with that city of Peggy's Cove and you have any tourism, like we've talked about a dozen times, you know, it's a good draw for people. For photo opportunities and tourism. Most photographed lighthouse in Canada. You got to keep it. So somebody's in charge of it. My problem is just that I cannot find who owns this lighthouse. Somebody has to. Yeah. But I can't find it. May not be public record if it's United States versus. It's a little secret. But that's it. That's like all I got. It's a great lighthouse. Everybody loves a little cove town. Yeah. Little red and white lighthouse.

36:23 Did you look at the restaurants available nearby? No. Okay. But in my show notes, remember food is not in the perfect world. In the show notes, show notes have lots of tourist sites where they talk about they visited, they went here, they went there, they saw this. And so there is food listed in there. It's just there's a bunch of different places. Nice. But you guys can scroll through. I'm sure there are some well -known places. This is a popular destination to visit. So there's got to be lots of good recommendations out there. If your perfect world includes food, that's what you need to look for. Mine includes lighthouses for sure. I like it. Yeah, it's a cute one. Peggy's Cove. Yeah, nice tie -in. Cute little name. Bowie to episode. Yeah. Good number.

37:16 That's how I found the lighthouse route was because Peggy's Cove is on it. I can't remember what I researched to find Peggy's Cove. I've talked about this before, but I type in something and end up with a lighthouse that's not related to what I researched. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure I looked up most remote lighthouse in Canada, I think is what I looked up. It's like most photographed. Most photographed, yeah. I'm like, oh, what is this? You said most, right? So that's basically it. Peggy's Cove Lighthouse and the lighthouse wrap. I like. Thumbs up. Let's see. I got one more episode and then it's going to be Vince again. So I hope you blow us away with something really good. Yep. Maybe a U .S. lighthouse. Maybe. You haven't covered a lighthouse in a while. Well, I am going to Sweden here. I know. Shortly.

38:01 So in any case, I'm just saying. Maybe you should cover a Swedish one. That's what I was hinting at. But, you know, you never let them know your next move. Takes off. No, he's leaving. Vince. Vince. Never. Never let him know. On that note, you actually could have just stayed away except I needed someone to press the outro button. That's what I'm good for. Everyone go to our website, thelighthouselowdown .com to listen to our episodes, watch our YouTube videos, leave us a review, send us an email, and... I hope you catch us next time on The Lighthouse Lowdown. Never let them know you're next to me.