In addition to the seeing the historic sights of the City of Halifax, these tours carry on to visit the famous fishing village of Peggy's Cove along many other wonderful coastal sights. Our tour starts from the Armdale Rotary, where there are two scenic drives to the coast which provide interesting diversions for sightseeing or photography. We travel along a remarkably picturesque coast to Prospect, Shad Bay and West Dover.

West Dover is one of many fishing villages we travel through, with weather beaten fishing shacks perched seemingly foreboding the coastline. A scene out of a picture postcard. As we leave West Dover for Peggy's Cove, we see where earlier glaciers already had removed most of the soil and loose rocks exposing the 376 million years old Devonian granite. This is one of the most remarkable visible characteristics of this area. Huge boulders picked up and deposited more than 10,000 years ago by the last retreating glaciers are scattered randomly in and about Peggy's Cove.

Peggy's Cove (1-1/2 hour stop) was settled in 1811 by six families and has a year round population of approximately sixty residents. It was named after a young woman named Margaret who swam ashore from a schooner wrecked on Halibut Rock. The young girl was 15 years of age and had lost all her family. The people of Halibut Cove took her in like one of their own, Peggy (Margaret) is now believed to be a ghost.

Thousands of tourists visit the Peggy's Cove gift shops, marine studio, restaurant, church and graceful lighthouse. The lighthouse in Peggy's Cove (which during the summer months is a post office) is anchored in the rock and is the only lighthouse post office in North America. It even has its own special stamp, an image of the lighthouse, so drop your post cards at the Post Office.

Also located in Peggy's Cove is St. John's Anglican church where two beautiful murals by the late William deGarthe are kept. He is also the creator of the Great Fisherman's Monument carved from granite between 1977-1982. The massive figures include the heroic Peggy of Peggy's Cove. William deGarthe was 70 years of age when he carved this masterpiece. The monument is located behind his summer home.

As we leave Peggy's Cove through Indian Harbour we travel through yet another beautiful fishing village, Hackett's Cove. In the St. Peter's cemetery of Hackett's Cove lies the body of Jeannette McDonald who died in 1789 in Glen Margaret. She had played a part in giving shelter and concealment to Bonnie Prince Charles (Charles Edward Stuart) when he was hiding from the English soldiers following the battle of Culloden in 1745.
We now continue along this lovely shore through the small villages of Glen Margaret, Seabright, French Village, Glen Haven & Tantallon, so that you may relax and take in the breathtaking beauty on the rest of the tour back to Halifax.