Built To Roam: Peggy's Cove

So while in Canada the weather was pretty crappy most of the time, but I was able to squeeze in a few hikes between all the rain. I have to say by far my favorite of the trip, and one of my all time favorites, was the hike we did outside of Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.
We went into Peggy's Cove first, which is like, as the guide book put it,"The most picturesque fishing village in all of Atlantic Canada" yeah sick. It was cool if you like 8 billion fat tourists and 7 gift shops. But I will say that it easily could have been really awesome had they not let the tourist attractions take over so much of the town. There was alot of really old, really cool looking fishing huts and houses with the really old bearded typical fisherman to go with them, but the ice cream shops and tour buses kind of ruined the ability to really feel like you were in the middle of an old fishing village in a different time. My parents came here on a vacation over 25 years ago and from what they told me it seemed alot better back then before everyone else found out about it.
That being said, the area itself was really cool. The last ten minutes of the drive into town was dominated by bolder covered hills with green shrub grass covering everything. We asked the guide at the visitor center if there were any good hikes in the area and she told us of one that went along the coast down into a nearby bay. After walking around the town for a bit we headed out to start the hike.
It was awesome, very cool terrain to hike through with boulders to climb over and cliffs to scale along the coast, which Mark was ecstatic about. Also there were pitcher plants everywhere which I have never seen before and are actually pretty damn cool, basically they are "like" a Venus flytrap in that they eat insects for nutrients, but instead of a closing trap they have a flower that hangs over leaves shaped like a pitcher filled with water. When the insects fall off the flower and into the pitchers, the fluid in the pitcher digests them and the plants feed off of the dissolved nutrients. Pretty bad ass I know, but enough of the Biology lesson.
Overall it was a great hike, with a ton of things to see and some very cool terrain to experience. So if you ever go to Peggy's Cove, do yourself a favor and don't just walk to the lighthouse and go in the gift shops and get ice cream, take a two minute drive down the road and go on a quick hike, I promise you won't regret it. Then obviously go back to the town and get some fucken ice cream, cause it's delicious, and it's exactly what we did.
Mileage: about 2 miles