Peggy's Cove

Here are a couple of environment shots from the recent Catholic Answers cruise. The place is Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia. It’s a scenic spot where there’s this . . . well . . . cove, y’see . . . and it’s got a lighthouse with a tiny post office inside it and a (bunch of) gift shop(s) and a restaurant and all of these weird-lookin’ rocks.

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Here’s a closeup of the rocks. They reminded me of elephant skin, the way they were big, grey, lumpy, smooth, and cracked.

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Thanks to Maureen North of Catholic Answers, who took these pictures!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

3 thoughts on “Peggy's Cove”

  1. Peggy’s Cove – Isn’t that near the spot where a Swissair flight went down years ago? Left the locals traumatized a bit.

  2. Yep, they thought it was the asteroid. But the great thing is that the entire ‘town’ of 60 people immediately jumped in their little wooden fishing boats and went out to see whom they could rescue. Unfortunately, it turned out to be nobody. I lived in Halifax and for an afternoon’s entertainment in the summer we would jump in the car and go out there to look at the rocks. We were there in July once and the fog came rolling in like the Darkness of Sauron. We, being good Nova Scotians, kept a handy supply of mitts, jackets and touques in the trunk. The temperature dropped 20 degrees in ten minutes.

  3. beautiful. I took the first CA cruise (even have a pic with Jimmy), but I wish I could have taken the Alaskan or this New England cruise. The scenery must have been terrific. Oh – and I’m sure the CA programs were great also.

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