Today the weather was still reasonable. However substantial rain was forecasted starting sometime in the evening. We left at around 9:30am after having breakfast at the campground. Our first destination was Peggy's Cove. The town and the lighthouse still look like 30 years ago. However there were a lot more people compared to back then. I counted 13 tour buses or so (I guess, these folks were from the large cruise ship that anchored in Halifax Harbor). What else to say about Peggy's Cove: The house look quaint and neat. The granite stones surrounding the lighthouse are cool to step on. We spent about one hour in Peggy's Cove.
In Halifax we parked our car in the Park Lane Mall. Then we walked everything else we did that day in Halifax. We started with lunch at Beyond Pho. We all were served a good meal (3 soups and one vermicelli meal). Afterwards we walked into the Halifax Public Garden. This is a very nice garden. It is reasonably sized and offers a variety of plants and flowers. Definitely one of the nicer city gardens I have seen/visited (and more interesting compared to the King's or Queen's gardens in St. John).
Afterwards we walked up to the Citadel. Entry was free for us since we had bought the Parks Canada 1-year pass. We spent about an hour in the Citadel. I very much liked the walk on top of the walls with great views across town. We also visited a few of the rooms build into the Citadel walls. They had a low ceiling and I had to make sure I wasn't banging my head when entering them.
From the Citadel we proceeded down to the harbor front. We walked about one half of the entire harbor front. It reminded me a bit of the Toronto Harbor Front: A decent amount of modern buildings bordering it. Cow's Creamery from PEI had a shop there. We all had an ice cream!
We finished the day in Halifax with dinner at aFrite. This is a good fusion food restaurant. We had a common Fattoush Salad. Our main courses were a chicken katsu, fish & chips, fish taco trio, and a Donair meatloaf (I believe). My fish and chips was up there with the one from Saint John and Rusty Anchor, but also a bit more expensive and its coleslaw, while small, tweaked in an interesting way.
The drive from Halifax to the motel in Bridgewater was uneventful. We made it to the motel (Travelodge just before the rain started.
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