Lunenburg, NS

July 2, 2011. We drove from Annapolis Royal to Lunenburg, a short drive of about 88 miles.

July 2 is Jackie’s birthday. That called for a celebration. Well, you heard of the best laid plans, etc… We went to a nice restaurant, ordered and waited & waited. Finally we left, the large group split up into smaller groups and all found something to eat. After we returned to the campground the gang decided to give Jackie & I each a piece of the birthday cake they made and hold another birthday celibration the following day. The Wagon Master got hold of the restaurant manager and told him of the rotten service. Since the caravan company brings four or more tours to this restaurant each summer, the manager invited us back the next night with all our diners on the house. The food and service the next night was excellent. They really did us right.

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I’m not going to write about the history Lunenburg. It is another very nice town in Nova Scotia that was settled in 1753. Today there are some very interesting old homes to see and the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic.

The museum contains exhibits that all phases of Atlantic fishing. There is a very large (25 pound) lobster on display. This guy was caught and lived in the aquarium until he passed away and is now preserved in the display case. The openings in lobster traps are sized to catch 1lb. to 1 ½ lb. lobsters, as these are the size that are most usually served in restaurants. The large ones are not usually caught in the traps but are found hanging on to the trap when it is hauled in. The reason they are there is that lobsters are cannibals and the larger ones are after the smaller ones in the trap. For this reason, the lobster men have to get the lobsters out of the traps before the bait is gone and they get hungry. BTW that 1 lb. Lobster you woof down took about ten years to grow that big.

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There are two old fishing boats you can explore. The Thersa E. Connor is a two masted schooner, with sail and desil power. She was built in 1938. The ship could hold 425,000 pounds of salted cod or about half that weight in fresh fish packed in ice.

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 The Cape Sable was a side trawler. Built in Holland in 1962, she caught more that 40 million tons of fish before retiring in 1982.

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There are more pictures of the ships interior and the other exhibits at:

http://summer2011jb.shutterfly.com/pictures#editPictures:albumId=1800