WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.140 Hi everyone, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this 00:00:03.140 --> 00:00:13.140 is The Lighthouse Lowdown. I tried to get you 00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:15.140 with that one. My finger was hovering on the 00:00:15.140 --> 00:00:17.699 button. I know. I realized as I paused that you 00:00:17.699 --> 00:00:20.079 weren't going in hard enough for me to catch 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:23.600 you in the act, you know. Vince wants to talk 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.660 about coffee. I got an iced coffee today, which 00:00:26.660 --> 00:00:30.300 is different than the latest. Freezes we've had 00:00:30.300 --> 00:00:32.899 from Dutch Bros. I guess I could branch out, 00:00:32.960 --> 00:00:36.320 but in my head, Dutch Bros is for the Golden 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.320 Eagle, and that's it. Which is like a... Because 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:41.259 it's special. I mean, all those drinks are super 00:00:41.259 --> 00:00:45.039 sweet. Yeah. And I can get an iced coffee anywhere, 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:48.240 which is what I usually get from scooters. Well, 00:00:48.259 --> 00:00:49.880 I'm pretty sure that I saw them put chocolate 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:52.159 milk in mine today. I don't remember what it's 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:56.090 called, but... Interesting. So, it is... Chocolate 00:00:56.090 --> 00:00:58.250 milk with espresso, basically. It actually sounds 00:00:58.250 --> 00:01:01.149 delicious. I think what I don't like about mocha, 00:01:01.149 --> 00:01:02.429 the reason why I don't like mocha is because 00:01:02.429 --> 00:01:05.849 it doesn't taste like chocolate to me. It tastes 00:01:05.849 --> 00:01:07.969 like... Yeah, it's got some bitterness to it 00:01:07.969 --> 00:01:10.409 because it's cocoa. Yeah. Typically. That must 00:01:10.409 --> 00:01:15.069 be it. It's just like too pungent. I think chocolate 00:01:15.069 --> 00:01:16.510 milk sounds a lot better than that. It's like 00:01:16.510 --> 00:01:21.180 the spice of chocolateness. Ew. Some people like 00:01:21.180 --> 00:01:23.299 spicy chocolate, though. I would despise that. 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:26.739 Like people that like spicy margaritas. So gross. 00:01:28.939 --> 00:01:33.319 Anyway. Sorry to our listeners that like spicy 00:01:33.319 --> 00:01:36.980 margaritas. But you're wrong. Keep it to yourself. 00:01:37.280 --> 00:01:42.099 History buoy for the day. Nice. You know, you're 00:01:42.099 --> 00:01:47.340 right. It is nice. And I have not failed. at 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:48.980 providing a lighthouse buoy in a really long 00:01:48.980 --> 00:01:51.920 time. I'm pretty sure, like, since last year. 00:01:51.939 --> 00:01:55.599 I mean, what episode are we on? 79? 79. So I 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:58.920 forget every time that there's lighthouse buoys. 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:01.239 Wait, what are you talking about? Like, I was 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:03.500 just, oh, yeah, lighthouse buoy. Oh, pleasantly 00:02:03.500 --> 00:02:07.400 surprised? We've done this almost 80 times. But 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:10.539 you like them? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Today's 00:02:10.539 --> 00:02:15.099 episode buoy is the Canadian lighthouse route. 00:02:16.650 --> 00:02:20.289 I don't know this one. It made me think of, you 00:02:20.289 --> 00:02:23.509 did a lighthouse. Oh, a hike, right? Yeah, the 00:02:23.509 --> 00:02:29.069 Faro de Caminos. Caminos de Faros. I speak zero 00:02:29.069 --> 00:02:31.710 Spanish, but it was in Spain. And there's a, 00:02:31.870 --> 00:02:34.009 yeah, anyways. So it was a whole episode we did. 00:02:34.069 --> 00:02:36.810 It wasn't a lighthouse buoy. Okay. But yeah, 00:02:36.870 --> 00:02:38.830 it was a path of lighthouses that you could also 00:02:38.830 --> 00:02:45.210 hike along the coast of Spain that ended in Land's 00:02:45.210 --> 00:02:49.539 End. Yes, the end of the world or whatever. No, 00:02:49.620 --> 00:02:51.919 I don't know. It was too long ago to remember 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:54.659 the details. But you guys can go listen to the 00:02:54.659 --> 00:02:56.280 episode that talks about that if you want to. 00:02:56.500 --> 00:02:58.479 You might want to after hearing this history 00:02:58.479 --> 00:03:04.120 boy, which is rocking. Same vibe driving Nova 00:03:04.120 --> 00:03:09.099 Scotia. Okay. So for people that don't know, 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:11.439 that's Canada. In Nova Scotia alone, I think 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:17.539 there's like 160 lighthouses. 50, about... Hang 00:03:17.539 --> 00:03:26.860 that cord up. You know, over here, I was desperately 00:03:26.860 --> 00:03:29.020 trying to find something to prop my foot up on, 00:03:29.060 --> 00:03:32.379 and I just didn't notice that I was... I was 00:03:32.379 --> 00:03:34.000 like, what is that sound coming from? It was 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.479 like my own leg touching our equipment. Yeah, 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:38.500 so I don't know what other... Hold on. I don't... 00:03:38.500 --> 00:03:43.599 Okay. She still didn't do what I pointed her 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:49.580 to do. I don't know what other Lighthouse podcasters 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:51.699 do, but we have these really nice microphones, 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.240 and if you touch the cord, this is what you hear. 00:03:56.159 --> 00:04:00.000 If you touch the stand, oh, that's pretty much 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:02.919 isolated. That's not bad. Because we've got those 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:04.699 little spring isolators. If you touch the table, 00:04:05.379 --> 00:04:11.509 sometimes even putting down the cup. Anyways, 00:04:11.729 --> 00:04:15.270 so we do our best here, folks. Sometimes stuff 00:04:15.270 --> 00:04:17.829 happens. Sometimes you're going to hear, you 00:04:17.829 --> 00:04:20.649 know. And just imagine if you're not here. We 00:04:20.649 --> 00:04:23.149 have these giant headphones on listening to ourselves. 00:04:24.230 --> 00:04:26.750 Yeah, sometimes I can't tell if it's something 00:04:26.750 --> 00:04:28.810 that's coming through the audio or if it's just 00:04:28.810 --> 00:04:32.129 like muffled in real life. Yeah, like there's 00:04:32.129 --> 00:04:35.350 thunder outside right now. Yeah. So like. Yeah, 00:04:35.410 --> 00:04:37.610 we had a tornado hit the Chiefs Stadium today. 00:04:37.790 --> 00:04:40.889 Did it actually? I don't know for sure if there's, 00:04:40.910 --> 00:04:43.629 like, damage, but it definitely was on the ground 00:04:43.629 --> 00:04:46.410 over the stadium. Some people would be like, 00:04:46.509 --> 00:04:49.449 oh, yeah. People said they'll just blame it on 00:04:49.449 --> 00:04:55.110 the refs or something. Like, good one. That's 00:04:55.110 --> 00:04:57.870 kind of funny. Anyway, what was I saying? Lighthouse, 00:04:58.029 --> 00:05:01.829 Canada, Nova Scotia. There's around 50 lighthouses 00:05:01.829 --> 00:05:04.810 of the 160 that are available to the public. 00:05:04.829 --> 00:05:07.310 So that's a pretty good percentage. And I'll 00:05:07.310 --> 00:05:11.750 pull up a picture. Of Nova Scotia. Well, the 00:05:11.750 --> 00:05:13.470 part that we're talking about today. I guess 00:05:13.470 --> 00:05:15.389 I just gave away that we're staying in Nova Scotia. 00:05:16.069 --> 00:05:19.350 Anyway, the lighthouse route. Okay, I'm back 00:05:19.350 --> 00:05:27.850 on. That was me. I can't find a good spot for 00:05:27.850 --> 00:05:30.589 my feet. Just put them on the floor. I can't 00:05:30.589 --> 00:05:31.970 reach the floor. You're on the stool. Put them 00:05:31.970 --> 00:05:34.389 on the stool bar. It's not the same. I just like 00:05:34.389 --> 00:05:37.069 to have my feet propped up. Oh my gosh. The lighthouse 00:05:37.069 --> 00:05:40.269 route. It's not called the Canadian Lighthouse 00:05:40.269 --> 00:05:42.750 Route. It's just the Lighthouse Route. But I 00:05:42.750 --> 00:05:45.970 feel like there's bound to be others. So I just 00:05:45.970 --> 00:05:50.009 specified that it's Canadian. Includes the southern 00:05:50.009 --> 00:05:53.649 part of the province of Nova Scotia. Going all 00:05:53.649 --> 00:05:56.449 the way along the coastline for a total of 339 00:05:56.449 --> 00:06:00.110 kilometers. That is what I have a picture of. 00:06:02.410 --> 00:06:06.050 The Lighthouse Route and what's called the Evangeline 00:06:06.050 --> 00:06:10.509 Trail, I think. Let me check. Yeah, the Evangeline 00:06:10.509 --> 00:06:13.290 Trail. So in the picture I pulled up, where it 00:06:13.290 --> 00:06:15.889 says 11, that's also the start point, Halifax. 00:06:16.350 --> 00:06:21.050 So from 1 to 7 is the Lighthouse Route. So the 00:06:21.050 --> 00:06:25.949 south part of the bottom of Nova Scotia, and 00:06:25.949 --> 00:06:27.689 then you start to come up the side, and then 00:06:27.689 --> 00:06:31.899 from 7 to 11 is the Evangeline Trail. So I'm 00:06:31.899 --> 00:06:35.000 doing kind of both. And all together, the lighthouse 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.920 way. Like this all together. Lighthouse route 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:41.459 is the first half. And then the last half is 00:06:41.459 --> 00:06:43.839 the Evangeline Trail. But there's so many lighthouses 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.779 up there that it's kind of suggested that you 00:06:46.779 --> 00:06:50.040 do the whole thing. Maybe it is 339 is lighthouse 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:53.639 route. Because the whole thing is over 1 ,000 00:06:53.639 --> 00:07:00.500 kilometers. 652 miles. Okay. Easy drive. That's 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:02.899 what we're looking at. What we have up is they 00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:06.100 were talking about driving it in an RV or something. 00:07:06.779 --> 00:07:09.160 So it's split up by days that you spend there. 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.339 Oh, yeah, nice. Like camping out. Right. I'm 00:07:12.339 --> 00:07:14.319 not going to go so deep. They went really deep 00:07:14.319 --> 00:07:16.959 into that, and I have that in the show notes. 00:07:17.019 --> 00:07:19.639 So if anybody wants to open that link, take a 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.040 look on what they suggest. what they tell you 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.699 to look at at each place, but I focused on lighthouses. 00:07:25.199 --> 00:07:28.220 This link didn't have all the lighthouses, so 00:07:28.220 --> 00:07:32.279 I left it behind. But the route covers a few 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:35.319 lighthouses and several picturesque towns, including 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:38.899 Halifax, Liverpool, Yarmouth, some other stuff. 00:07:39.980 --> 00:07:42.779 And so you start at Halifax and drive south, 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.860 and you first hit Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, which 00:07:45.860 --> 00:07:48.120 is actually the most photographed in Canada, 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:53.470 some say. Peggy. And Fort Point Lighthouse, which 00:07:53.470 --> 00:07:55.990 is a replica of the original lighthouse, plus 00:07:55.990 --> 00:07:59.089 also a big museum. Okay. So these are like, we'll 00:07:59.089 --> 00:08:00.629 have to keep them on the list. These are ones 00:08:00.629 --> 00:08:03.129 we'll have to cover. And then there's another 00:08:03.129 --> 00:08:06.970 Fort Point Lighthouse in Liverpool. So same name, 00:08:06.970 --> 00:08:09.310 very close together, but different lighthouses. 00:08:10.120 --> 00:08:12.480 And on the way there, you can also see Port Medway 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:14.839 Lighthouse. And then Yarmouth is the last stop 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:16.800 on the lighthouse route. And on the way, you'll 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:19.480 see Sandy Point Lighthouse, Seal Island, and 00:08:19.480 --> 00:08:23.420 Cape Sable Lighthouse. And then, so that's just 00:08:23.420 --> 00:08:26.560 the first part. So there's not actually as many 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.100 lighthouses as you would think on the lighthouse 00:08:30.100 --> 00:08:32.220 route. It's just kind of called that, I think, 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.340 probably because of the big ones that I just 00:08:35.340 --> 00:08:41.039 mentioned. What? That was like seven you said 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:45.139 right there, right? Let's see. One, two, three, 00:08:45.200 --> 00:08:51.620 four, five, six, seven. Wow. Boom. Great. I can't 00:08:51.620 --> 00:08:54.779 speak. Passive counting. But, you know, we're 00:08:54.779 --> 00:08:56.580 on this. I'm like over here, fingers and toes. 00:08:56.659 --> 00:09:02.100 One, two. Okay, that's three. So, lighthouse 00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:04.350 route. It doesn't have the most lighthouses, 00:09:04.470 --> 00:09:06.970 but I think it has some big ones. So if you continue 00:09:06.970 --> 00:09:09.009 along the coastline of Nova Scotia and start 00:09:09.009 --> 00:09:12.330 going north again, that's when you hit a lot 00:09:12.330 --> 00:09:17.529 of lighthouses. Yeah, when you get up to Muscadoubolt 00:09:17.529 --> 00:09:23.750 Harbor. Digby, Annapolis Royal. How do you say 00:09:23.750 --> 00:09:29.889 that? What is that? What? Muscadoubolt? Oh, Muscadoubolt. 00:09:30.889 --> 00:09:34.009 I don't know. I don't know. How dare you ask 00:09:34.009 --> 00:09:36.450 me to pronounce something? Well, I threw it out 00:09:36.450 --> 00:09:41.190 there first. Shoot. So anyway, if you keep going 00:09:41.190 --> 00:09:43.210 all the way around into a big circle, there's 00:09:43.210 --> 00:09:47.169 a bunch of lighthouses up top. And somebody did 00:09:47.169 --> 00:09:50.090 this drive and listed a lot of the lighthouses 00:09:50.090 --> 00:09:52.389 that they saw. So the next one they had was Cape 00:09:52.389 --> 00:09:55.169 Fortue, which is the tallest in Nova Scotia at 00:09:55.169 --> 00:09:59.029 123 feet. So Nova Scotia's lighthouses are on 00:09:59.029 --> 00:10:01.610 the shorter side, if 123 feet, which is still 00:10:01.610 --> 00:10:04.240 a lot. But for that to be the tallest lighthouse 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:10.840 there is cute. And then we have Cape St. Mary 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.220 Lighthouse, Church Point, Bellevue Cove, Gilbert's 00:10:15.220 --> 00:10:18.299 Cove, Digby Pier, Point Prim Lighthouse, and 00:10:18.299 --> 00:10:22.940 so many more to see. That's a lot. To be fair, 00:10:23.080 --> 00:10:27.179 we learned that taller lighthouses are not necessarily 00:10:27.179 --> 00:10:30.879 better. Oh, of course. For range, for initial 00:10:30.879 --> 00:10:34.139 cost, for maintenance, for climbing. But it's 00:10:34.139 --> 00:10:36.340 very America that I think we have. Don't we have 00:10:36.340 --> 00:10:39.059 the tallest lighthouses? We have a lot of tall 00:10:39.059 --> 00:10:41.960 lighthouses. Probably on average, if not the 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:44.299 tallest. Yeah. We have the tallest lighthouses. 00:10:44.340 --> 00:10:47.220 Because like the only really tall lighthouses 00:10:47.220 --> 00:10:49.740 they have overseas are because they were supposed 00:10:49.740 --> 00:10:54.279 to be symbols of power. Yeah. So then they built 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:57.080 them to be really tall just for that and not 00:10:57.080 --> 00:11:00.580 for like. Yeah. So like America is like, we need 00:11:00.580 --> 00:11:02.700 a bigger one. We need more bigger ones. We're 00:11:02.700 --> 00:11:03.700 going to build a bunch of them. Where, you know, 00:11:03.700 --> 00:11:06.320 you can be below the fog in a like triangle island 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:08.580 light, for example. Super, which is actually, 00:11:08.740 --> 00:11:12.120 is that technically? It is Canada, technically. 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.360 Yeah. But it was built on this high cliff and 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:17.559 it was actually above the weather, which for 00:11:17.559 --> 00:11:20.639 a ship is not useful. No. Didn't you say it was 00:11:20.639 --> 00:11:22.720 like 400 feet in the air? It was way up there. 00:11:22.820 --> 00:11:26.600 Yeah, 600, I want to say. Something wild for 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.870 an island. Something fell like 600 feet. Anyways, 00:11:31.009 --> 00:11:33.350 that's a whole episode. Another Canada lighthouse. 00:11:33.529 --> 00:11:35.009 You want to go see it? That was a long time ago. 00:11:35.090 --> 00:11:37.370 We recorded that when I broke my foot. That might 00:11:37.370 --> 00:11:40.830 have been my first one. No. I think that was 00:11:40.830 --> 00:11:46.850 your first one. Yeah. Well, cool. That's the 00:11:46.850 --> 00:11:49.009 end of my history buoy. Nice. So just a little 00:11:49.009 --> 00:11:51.830 thing for our listeners. If they are adventurous, 00:11:52.049 --> 00:11:55.159 want to travel, see a bunch of lighthouses. There's 00:11:55.159 --> 00:12:00.200 a lot in Nova Scotia, so check it out. And we're 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:02.840 going to go into our episode today, which we're 00:12:02.840 --> 00:12:06.639 staying in Nova Scotia, as I spoiled earlier. 00:12:06.940 --> 00:12:10.840 Canada. Yeah, staying in Canada. And we're covering 00:12:10.840 --> 00:12:13.740 the most photographed lighthouse in Canada and 00:12:13.740 --> 00:12:17.419 most photographed landmark in Nova Scotia, which 00:12:17.419 --> 00:12:22.240 is Peggy's Cove Lighthouse. Peggy's Cove. First 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:26.029 point to make. is that Peggy's Cove's official 00:12:26.029 --> 00:12:29.669 name is actually Peggy's Point Lighthouse. That's 00:12:29.669 --> 00:12:32.210 been true the entire time. But for some reason, 00:12:32.269 --> 00:12:35.830 it's referred to as Peggy's Cove, and they just... 00:12:35.830 --> 00:12:38.210 You have to be okay with it, because that's what 00:12:38.210 --> 00:12:41.309 people are going to call it. That's weird. Because 00:12:41.309 --> 00:12:47.629 actually, Peggy's Cove is... Let me show a picture. 00:12:48.190 --> 00:12:51.480 So you can see the cove is actually... past the 00:12:51.480 --> 00:12:53.840 point it's like yeah so the cove is physically 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.480 north but the point is clearly like a peninsula 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:01.940 yeah it's a point so the cove in the point peggy's 00:13:01.940 --> 00:13:04.220 cove lighthouse is to mark the point and not 00:13:04.220 --> 00:13:06.779 the cove the cove is actually marked by a light 00:13:06.779 --> 00:13:09.539 anyway owned by the government oh i don't know 00:13:09.539 --> 00:13:11.700 if it's called peggy's cove lighthouse but i 00:13:11.700 --> 00:13:13.679 i think it's more of just like a light like a 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.379 small government light and then this what well 00:13:16.379 --> 00:13:18.679 the road out there is called peggy's point road 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:22.240 oh yeah Okay, so. Which is, oh, that's the official 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.399 name. Yeah. But the local's name is Peggy's Cove. 00:13:26.460 --> 00:13:29.720 I don't know. See, yeah, it's Peggy's Cove Viewing 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:33.039 Platform, Peggy's Cove Gift Shop, Peggy's Cove 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:36.419 Car Park. Tom's Lobster Shack. But there is a 00:13:36.419 --> 00:13:38.379 Peggy's Cove, so it's just that the lighthouse 00:13:38.379 --> 00:13:42.440 is actually called Peggy's Point. So keep that 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:44.940 in mind. I'm going to keep calling it Peggy's 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:47.559 Cove because it's just widely accepted that that's 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:49.940 what it's referred to. I accept that. There's 00:13:49.940 --> 00:13:52.779 some speculation on where the name for the cove 00:13:52.779 --> 00:13:55.240 came from, which was one of the interesting things 00:13:55.240 --> 00:13:59.059 I saw while I was researching. This is the edge 00:13:59.059 --> 00:14:04.799 of St. Margaret's Bay. So I don't have the full 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.179 Google image, but if you go up from this picture, 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:11.460 all that water is St. Margaret's Bay, and it 00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:15.340 goes up further. So Peggy is apparently a nickname 00:14:15.340 --> 00:14:19.279 for Margaret. I don't know how. Like there's 00:14:19.279 --> 00:14:22.820 no P in Margaret. Wait. How does Peggy become 00:14:22.820 --> 00:14:25.960 a nickname? I don't understand that at all. I 00:14:25.960 --> 00:14:28.940 know. Like Richard and Dick. Yeah. But. It's 00:14:28.940 --> 00:14:33.879 the same. Peggy. Peggy Margaret. It's a real 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:37.139 thing. So anyway, the most reasonable explanation 00:14:37.139 --> 00:14:41.480 is that Peggy's Cove is in reference to St. Margaret's 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:43.799 Bay. Like, you know, tiny little body of water. 00:14:44.019 --> 00:14:45.620 Like a little Margaret. Coming off. You're like, 00:14:45.740 --> 00:14:48.529 oh. It's actually Peggy's Cove, a little nickname. 00:14:49.009 --> 00:14:52.570 The fun idea is that there was a shipwreck a 00:14:52.570 --> 00:14:55.289 long time ago in the cove, and the only survivor 00:14:55.289 --> 00:14:59.509 was a woman named Peggy. And she stayed there 00:14:59.509 --> 00:15:01.490 for the rest of her life. She married, had kids. 00:15:01.909 --> 00:15:03.730 And so there's a lot of people that stand by 00:15:03.730 --> 00:15:06.230 that this is why the cove was named Peggy's Cove. 00:15:06.370 --> 00:15:08.649 And there are some people that even claim that 00:15:08.649 --> 00:15:10.870 they're her descendants. Do you think that makes 00:15:10.870 --> 00:15:14.710 sense? What? Let's say you're on a ship, okay, 00:15:16.250 --> 00:15:20.350 Who knows what year? Not 1970. And then the ship 00:15:20.350 --> 00:15:25.370 crashes and you're the only survivor. Do you 00:15:25.370 --> 00:15:29.090 just stay and live a whole legendary life where 00:15:29.090 --> 00:15:32.870 your ship happened to crash? Thinking of... Seems... 00:15:32.870 --> 00:15:36.250 A long time ago. Sus. Well, what would you do? 00:15:37.590 --> 00:15:40.750 I'd try to go back where I was from. If you're 00:15:40.750 --> 00:15:44.090 a woman, you have... No way of doing that. So 00:15:44.090 --> 00:15:45.789 you think actually she could have been freed 00:15:45.789 --> 00:15:47.990 by the ship crashing and everyone else dying. 00:15:48.070 --> 00:15:50.009 Maybe she caused it. Oh my gosh. What are you 00:15:50.009 --> 00:15:52.110 talking about? Well, like social, like she, like 00:15:52.110 --> 00:15:53.490 she was meant, I mean, I don't know. She says 00:15:53.490 --> 00:15:57.730 like what the situation was, but she probably 00:15:57.730 --> 00:15:59.490 didn't have like, you know, her own cell phone 00:15:59.490 --> 00:16:02.970 or her own bank account. So I'm just saying, 00:16:03.029 --> 00:16:06.149 you know, like maybe the shipwreck because she 00:16:06.149 --> 00:16:09.730 survived was actually fortunate for her. And 00:16:09.730 --> 00:16:13.049 so, you know, this could make sense then. I think 00:16:13.049 --> 00:16:16.909 that she was probably somebody's wife or something 00:16:16.909 --> 00:16:21.429 from a merchant coming on a ship, right? And 00:16:21.429 --> 00:16:25.470 then it crashes, she loses everything. I'm assuming 00:16:25.470 --> 00:16:28.049 this was long enough ago for things to still 00:16:28.049 --> 00:16:30.230 be named, so it had to have been like 1400s or 00:16:30.230 --> 00:16:31.409 something. Yeah, but they used to say that women 00:16:31.409 --> 00:16:36.070 on board was bad luck. There's so very rarely 00:16:36.070 --> 00:16:38.710 ever a woman on board a ship. That it was actually 00:16:38.710 --> 00:16:41.649 bad luck. Yeah, but if she's coming to live over 00:16:41.649 --> 00:16:44.090 here, like, you know, people came to the new 00:16:44.090 --> 00:16:46.190 world. I guess we'll have to leave it at legend. 00:16:47.389 --> 00:16:51.129 Well, how did we get to speculating about... 00:16:51.129 --> 00:16:55.570 We can't interview her, so... I think that there's 00:16:55.570 --> 00:16:59.529 no way for you to contact people back home. Nobody's 00:16:59.529 --> 00:17:01.809 ever going to know that you crashed. You can't 00:17:01.809 --> 00:17:04.950 go looking. If you find people... that are willing 00:17:04.950 --> 00:17:07.549 to take you in, you have nowhere else to go. 00:17:07.650 --> 00:17:10.869 There's no reason for a woman at this time to 00:17:10.869 --> 00:17:13.210 go searching for anything else. She just needs 00:17:13.210 --> 00:17:16.950 to start a new life. That's so crazy. Maybe she 00:17:16.950 --> 00:17:19.930 was a child at that time. Peggy's kind of like 00:17:19.930 --> 00:17:23.430 a nickname for a child. Or like a little version 00:17:23.430 --> 00:17:30.069 of Margaret. That's going to be in our quiz whenever 00:17:30.069 --> 00:17:33.859 I do a quiz on the show. It's been so long since 00:17:33.859 --> 00:17:36.740 we did it. I'm just going to put it out there. 00:17:37.099 --> 00:17:38.700 We're going to do a Lighthouse Cocktail Hour 00:17:38.700 --> 00:17:42.000 with at least one more or two of our friends. 00:17:44.660 --> 00:17:46.359 So I don't get to be a part of the quiz? No, 00:17:46.359 --> 00:17:48.619 you'll be there. I told you, I'm serving drinks. 00:17:48.660 --> 00:17:51.460 You're going to compete against them in this 00:17:51.460 --> 00:17:54.059 quiz. I'm going to crush them. No, no, no. Your 00:17:54.059 --> 00:17:55.400 questions are going to be harder than theirs. 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:59.319 What? Absolutely. I hope I'm not wrong. That's 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:01.720 unfair. No, it is fair because you're the host 00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:03.559 of the show. You're actually the founder of the 00:18:03.559 --> 00:18:05.740 Lighthouse Slowdown. So what are you doing? You're 00:18:05.740 --> 00:18:08.099 like listening to the episodes all the way back? 00:18:08.180 --> 00:18:09.779 I'm not going to tell you all that secret. I 00:18:09.779 --> 00:18:12.440 want to know how accurate you're going to be. 00:18:12.539 --> 00:18:15.500 You can't study. I would not. They'll have questions 00:18:15.500 --> 00:18:18.740 like, you know, which of these is the lighthouse 00:18:18.740 --> 00:18:21.480 that's the tallest? And it's going to be clearly, 00:18:21.660 --> 00:18:24.759 you know, you would know. Absolutely. And then. 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.839 they won't know unless they listen to our show 00:18:27.839 --> 00:18:30.519 and i'm giving them research now except they're 00:18:30.519 --> 00:18:32.859 not going to listen to this i bet the people 00:18:32.859 --> 00:18:35.619 i'm thinking about and then uh your questions 00:18:35.619 --> 00:18:38.359 are going to be harder based on the history of 00:18:38.359 --> 00:18:41.319 our show or facts that i know that you've heard 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.099 we've already established from our our most uh 00:18:44.099 --> 00:18:46.319 some of our recent episodes that i don't remember 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:50.279 things perfectly and will defend them even if 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:54.369 i'm wrong i will have citations What? It's going 00:18:54.369 --> 00:18:55.690 to be fun. It's going to be a fun lighthouse 00:18:55.690 --> 00:18:57.210 cocktail hour. I'm kind of scared. What if I 00:18:57.210 --> 00:19:00.509 look like an idiot? You know? You don't have 00:19:00.509 --> 00:19:03.569 to worry about that. I think I do. You're going 00:19:03.569 --> 00:19:08.589 to be like, what's something you, how many flash 00:19:08.589 --> 00:19:12.269 panels on this Fresnel lens that you covered 00:19:12.269 --> 00:19:14.650 in episode 13? It'll be multiple choice. I'm 00:19:14.650 --> 00:19:17.190 going to be like, uh. It'll be multiple choice 00:19:17.190 --> 00:19:20.410 and I'm not going to get, just let me do this. 00:19:21.659 --> 00:19:23.700 All right. Okay, because I want to have fun, 00:19:23.779 --> 00:19:25.759 and the only way to have fun is if I'm getting 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:33.920 most of them right. All right. Peggy is the reason 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:36.720 that we named this Peggy's Cove. Allegedly. And 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.059 we don't know if that Peggy is a bay or a woman, 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:42.900 and that's all we have to say about it. So the 00:19:42.900 --> 00:19:45.400 area is known for being really unpredictable 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:47.920 when it comes to waves. I mean, obviously, we 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:50.079 ended up with a lighthouse out here, but... the 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.700 sea will appear calm. And I have the picture 00:19:52.700 --> 00:19:56.160 up so you can see the side that's facing the 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.240 bay and the cove are super calm. And then right 00:19:59.240 --> 00:20:03.119 at the corner and onward, you can just see how 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:05.200 choppy the water is. Yeah, a little more rock 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:08.480 and roll. You can see the currents and the foam 00:20:08.480 --> 00:20:11.779 and the waves and everything. So it's unpredictable 00:20:11.779 --> 00:20:14.619 and also gives you a false sense of security 00:20:14.619 --> 00:20:19.019 coming up from one side. of peggy's point when 00:20:19.019 --> 00:20:22.500 the other side is a super aggressive waves and 00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:25.559 everything safe on one side yeah and these rocks 00:20:25.559 --> 00:20:28.539 are like smoothed out so they can be really slippery 00:20:28.539 --> 00:20:33.519 and you'll see picture later but they tell you 00:20:33.519 --> 00:20:35.980 when you come out here that if you're not if 00:20:35.980 --> 00:20:38.859 you're not walking on white rock then you're 00:20:38.859 --> 00:20:42.019 in a danger zone because obviously when the rock 00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:45.140 gets wet you can see it's like dark gray So it's 00:20:45.140 --> 00:20:47.480 supposed to mark areas that are safer. So you're 00:20:47.480 --> 00:20:51.660 on White Rock. But anyway, there's just been 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:54.980 a lot of instances where a wave will just splash 00:20:54.980 --> 00:20:57.579 up. No warning or anything. Everything will be 00:20:57.579 --> 00:20:59.880 totally calm. And then a wave comes out of nowhere 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:02.279 and will sweep people out. And there's like really 00:21:02.279 --> 00:21:04.660 strong tides and currents and stuff over here. 00:21:04.720 --> 00:21:09.720 So they actually have warning plaques on the 00:21:09.720 --> 00:21:12.690 rocks. It says warning. Injury and death have 00:21:12.690 --> 00:21:15.730 rewarded careless sightseers here. The ocean 00:21:15.730 --> 00:21:17.970 and rocks are treacherous. Savor the sea from 00:21:17.970 --> 00:21:21.609 a distance. What a wording. I know. Well, the 00:21:21.609 --> 00:21:24.069 complaint from a lot of people who visit is that 00:21:24.069 --> 00:21:27.730 it looks like not a current thing you have to 00:21:27.730 --> 00:21:30.390 worry about. It's a plaque. Yeah, it seems like 00:21:30.390 --> 00:21:34.980 a historical thing. There's been lots of people 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:37.019 who have died here. It doesn't look like. Hear 00:21:37.019 --> 00:21:39.299 ye, hear ye. Yeah. It doesn't. It's not really 00:21:39.299 --> 00:21:42.980 saying like you tourist stay away from the water. 00:21:44.099 --> 00:21:46.900 You know how those signs usually are. Yeah. Upright. 00:21:47.700 --> 00:21:49.440 Sharks here. And they're white and they're red 00:21:49.440 --> 00:21:52.500 and they're plastic. This one's like. We're going 00:21:52.500 --> 00:21:56.819 to use the word treacherous. A metal plaque on 00:21:56.819 --> 00:21:59.579 the ground. I don't know. I would see that. It's 00:21:59.579 --> 00:22:03.160 so unnecessarily artistic. I know. That's the 00:22:03.160 --> 00:22:05.359 thing. It looks like it's something that, like 00:22:05.359 --> 00:22:09.000 a museum, like it would say Peggy's Cove on it. 00:22:09.240 --> 00:22:15.599 But they have this here because people die every 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.180 year from being washed out into the water here. 00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:21.400 That's sad. I know. That would suck. But this 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:23.880 goes to show why they needed a lighthouse here 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:25.960 in the first place. So the first one was built 00:22:25.960 --> 00:22:30.720 in 1868 and was a 26 -foot tall wooden integral 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.420 tower with a red light. Oh, we love integral 00:22:33.420 --> 00:22:35.160 towers. I know. We haven't talked about one in 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:37.480 a long time. This nice old picture, you can see 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:39.799 they have stabilizers on the side because the 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:42.720 wind would get really high. Whoa. And the lighthouse 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.779 was known to vibrate with the wind, so they added 00:22:45.779 --> 00:22:50.740 just these meaningless beams. Yeah, they're like... 00:22:51.980 --> 00:22:54.759 They're like kickers. When you're putting up 00:22:54.759 --> 00:22:57.480 framing for a building, you temporarily put these 00:22:57.480 --> 00:23:00.500 45 -degree angles of wood. They just permanently 00:23:00.500 --> 00:23:05.099 painted them. Also, what an interesting door 00:23:05.099 --> 00:23:09.000 design. Yeah, going up two sides. But it's like 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:12.720 a porch that's enclosed, but it's not a porch? 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:16.339 It's interesting. It is, yeah. Why two sides? 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:19.000 I was going to say maybe it was a duplex and 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:21.650 just had a weird... front entrance but i don't 00:23:21.650 --> 00:23:23.329 know if that's true because there's only one 00:23:23.329 --> 00:23:25.289 lighthouse keeper at a time so unnecessarily 00:23:25.289 --> 00:23:29.809 artistic it's a theme at peggy's cove cool photo 00:23:29.809 --> 00:23:34.670 yeah it is in 1897 a fifth order lens was installed 00:23:34.670 --> 00:23:38.630 and promptly was followed by an explosion in 00:23:38.630 --> 00:23:40.950 the lantern room fantastic we've heard of before 00:23:40.950 --> 00:23:43.529 there's never any reason given for this but i'm 00:23:43.529 --> 00:23:45.730 sure there's lots of stuff going on in the lantern 00:23:45.730 --> 00:23:49.440 room in the 1800s so They put the original lens 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:52.259 that was in their back inside. I think it was 00:23:52.259 --> 00:23:57.160 just some metal reflectors. So they lost their 00:23:57.160 --> 00:24:00.319 lens really fast. And we know how expensive those 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:05.799 are. Yeah, someone got fired. 1915, an octagonal 00:24:05.799 --> 00:24:07.980 light tower was built nearby as a replacement. 00:24:08.140 --> 00:24:14.420 I think it said like 15 yards away. That was 00:24:14.420 --> 00:24:18.730 crazy. Yeah, I felt the thunder in the floor. 00:24:18.869 --> 00:24:23.490 It shook the ground. No, Bo is hiding somewhere. 00:24:24.309 --> 00:24:27.289 Gotta be in the kitchen cabinet. It's where he 00:24:27.289 --> 00:24:30.650 hides when it storms. Love that. That was scary. 00:24:32.289 --> 00:24:36.529 15 yards away. It doesn't say why it was replaced. 00:24:36.789 --> 00:24:38.750 I don't know if it was just, it's a wooden tower, 00:24:38.869 --> 00:24:40.710 so eventually it just starts to get aged. Well, 00:24:40.750 --> 00:24:44.029 1915 is a long time later. Yeah, what did I say? 00:24:44.849 --> 00:24:48.890 1868. Yeah, so that's over 50 years of right 00:24:48.890 --> 00:24:51.009 on the water's edge, and we established this 00:24:51.009 --> 00:24:53.930 as a windy, really watery area. Yeah, it turns 00:24:53.930 --> 00:24:56.369 out vibrating houses don't last very long. Yeah, 00:24:56.490 --> 00:24:59.289 it was being put to the test. An explosion as 00:24:59.289 --> 00:25:03.690 well. Small insurance claim, like Allstate. Like 00:25:03.690 --> 00:25:05.589 a good neighbor, and you hop up, and there's 00:25:05.589 --> 00:25:09.230 an exploded rooftop. Well, I don't know how much 00:25:09.230 --> 00:25:11.890 we can do about that. So the old tower, they 00:25:11.890 --> 00:25:13.789 kept it and used it as the keeper's cottage. 00:25:14.170 --> 00:25:17.609 But the tower, the light itself was, oh, maybe 00:25:17.609 --> 00:25:19.990 they reused the lantern room. But I know that 00:25:19.990 --> 00:25:23.589 when they changed to just using this as the keeper's 00:25:23.589 --> 00:25:26.549 cottage, the lantern room wasn't on there anymore. 00:25:26.730 --> 00:25:30.200 Okay. It's a nice picture of the cove. It actually 00:25:30.200 --> 00:25:33.079 puts into perspective how small the area actually 00:25:33.079 --> 00:25:35.460 is. So from far away, when you take a picture, 00:25:35.519 --> 00:25:37.839 you can just see. Like in Google Maps, it's kind 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:40.539 of hard to see what the scale of everything is. 00:25:40.700 --> 00:25:43.440 So in this old picture, after the new tower was 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:45.759 built, you can kind of see how small the cove 00:25:45.759 --> 00:25:48.720 is. Really cool. Just a little spot. Historical 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:51.059 fishing village. Yeah, cool place to visit. Yeah. 00:25:51.359 --> 00:25:54.119 The new tower was 50 feet tall with fixed red 00:25:54.119 --> 00:25:56.559 light, which they changed to white after a few 00:25:56.559 --> 00:25:58.359 years, and I'm not sure the reason for that either. 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:01.720 There wasn't a whole lot of information on this 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:05.819 one. It was kind of a shorter episode. Cool spot, 00:26:05.940 --> 00:26:09.099 though. Yeah. And it's really, I guess I don't 00:26:09.099 --> 00:26:10.539 know is the question, it's really kind of in 00:26:10.539 --> 00:26:12.940 the middle of nowhere. There's not, this highway 00:26:12.940 --> 00:26:15.400 it's along, there's not a whole lot of commerce 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:19.210 going on, do you think? Is it still a fishing 00:26:19.210 --> 00:26:22.710 area? Yeah, it's still a fishing village. It's 00:26:22.710 --> 00:26:25.769 more like quaint, historical. People go there. 00:26:25.869 --> 00:26:29.549 I think I vaguely remember seeing that there 00:26:29.549 --> 00:26:32.230 are 50 permanent residents and everybody else 00:26:32.230 --> 00:26:35.069 has like a house there or visit as a tourist. 00:26:35.349 --> 00:26:37.529 Because Halifax, I think, is the biggest city 00:26:37.529 --> 00:26:39.970 in Nova Scotia. Big hockey team, if I remember 00:26:39.970 --> 00:26:43.130 right. Really? I think so. Maybe I'm making that 00:26:43.130 --> 00:26:45.230 up from a movie I saw. It does sound familiar, 00:26:45.289 --> 00:26:48.980 but a lot of Canada's... Towns are also in England? 00:26:49.319 --> 00:26:53.140 Yeah. Yeah, I noticed a lot of that. Halifax 00:26:53.140 --> 00:26:58.900 Hockey. Halifax Mooseheads. Look at that symbol. 00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:02.259 That's awesome. I am not much of a hockey person. 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:07.920 You're right. Yeah. Oh, okay. A Canadian junior 00:27:07.920 --> 00:27:11.259 ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes. Junior? 00:27:11.799 --> 00:27:15.900 In Halifax, Nova Scotia. Not a pro team. Junior 00:27:15.900 --> 00:27:19.130 pro, looks like. All right. I tried. Well, still, 00:27:19.250 --> 00:27:21.950 I mean, you were right. It's out there. It's 00:27:21.950 --> 00:27:26.450 out there. There's hockey. 1954, a hurricane 00:27:26.450 --> 00:27:29.910 damaged the old tower, and it was removed. So 00:27:29.910 --> 00:27:32.190 that was the end of the first lighthouse. But 00:27:32.190 --> 00:27:35.750 we still have our 50 -foot tower. Four years 00:27:35.750 --> 00:27:37.970 later, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse is automated. 00:27:38.170 --> 00:27:41.410 The light had seven different keepers in its 00:27:41.410 --> 00:27:43.970 almost 100 -year history, with service ranging 00:27:43.970 --> 00:27:47.250 from four years to 24 years. There was like a 00:27:47.250 --> 00:27:49.250 lot of, there wasn't really a lot of in between. 00:27:49.329 --> 00:27:51.809 It was like, there was a lot of four year service 00:27:51.809 --> 00:27:53.990 and like six year service. And then there was 00:27:53.990 --> 00:27:56.509 a lot of 20 and 24 year service. Interesting. 00:27:56.549 --> 00:28:00.529 Yeah. And I could see why you'd hang out here 00:28:00.529 --> 00:28:04.029 for like a lot of your adult life as you're aging 00:28:04.029 --> 00:28:06.630 and stuff. It's like, it's a pretty quaint area. 00:28:07.069 --> 00:28:10.609 Yeah. That's all anyone wants. Yeah. Something 00:28:10.609 --> 00:28:12.970 quiet. People to hang out with in a pretty quiet 00:28:12.970 --> 00:28:16.109 spot. People that like you. It's stuff you like 00:28:16.109 --> 00:28:19.970 to do. If it has seafood and or steak, that's 00:28:19.970 --> 00:28:23.869 a bonus. That's a bonus. You like look off on. 00:28:25.710 --> 00:28:28.390 You're hungry. No, I'm just dreaming of retirement. 00:28:28.549 --> 00:28:30.329 Okay. One of those two things. I don't think 00:28:30.329 --> 00:28:32.829 of food when I think of like a perfect world. 00:28:34.970 --> 00:28:38.009 Please comment below. Oh, no. What you think 00:28:38.009 --> 00:28:41.569 of that. If you agree or disagree. You want to 00:28:41.569 --> 00:28:42.869 bring other people into this? When you think 00:28:42.869 --> 00:28:47.940 of a perfect world. Do you think of food? Do 00:28:47.940 --> 00:28:52.839 you think that's weird? No. I think I disagree. 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:56.480 That's all. Okay. You just want more people on 00:28:56.480 --> 00:29:01.859 your side. Well. What are you going to... I see 00:29:01.859 --> 00:29:08.119 your little hand float. I'm moving on. I'm done 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:13.079 with your little interruptions. Later, they changed 00:29:13.079 --> 00:29:18.049 the light to... Fixed green in the 70s. And then 00:29:18.049 --> 00:29:22.690 back to red in 2009. I have a picture. Why change 00:29:22.690 --> 00:29:25.950 the color so many times? Especially of the light. 00:29:26.009 --> 00:29:29.009 I think that's interesting. I've seen a... Yeah, 00:29:29.029 --> 00:29:32.750 the tower, like day marks have changed. But red 00:29:32.750 --> 00:29:35.089 and green is kind of nice. Yeah, this used to 00:29:35.089 --> 00:29:37.789 be all white the whole time. And then they painted 00:29:37.789 --> 00:29:41.869 the lantern room red in 1969 after it was already 00:29:41.869 --> 00:29:43.990 automated. So I think that's interesting. It 00:29:43.990 --> 00:29:46.829 is interesting. That was 100 years of it being 00:29:46.829 --> 00:29:48.789 a certain way. I mean, not this tower, but in 00:29:48.789 --> 00:29:51.630 general, the day mark was white and black. And 00:29:51.630 --> 00:29:54.589 now it's decided after it's automated to be white 00:29:54.589 --> 00:29:57.390 and red. It's interesting. So the green stayed 00:29:57.390 --> 00:29:59.950 all the way until 2009. So a lot of the pictures 00:29:59.950 --> 00:30:03.269 you see of the Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia, 00:30:03.269 --> 00:30:08.930 Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, is with the green light 00:30:08.930 --> 00:30:11.670 still. I actually kind of had a hard time finding 00:30:11.670 --> 00:30:13.549 a picture of it with its current light, which 00:30:13.549 --> 00:30:19.769 is red. It was white, red, green, red. It was 00:30:19.769 --> 00:30:24.049 red, white, green, red. Shoot. Brought it back 00:30:24.049 --> 00:30:29.220 to the OG red 2009. And actually, for a while, 00:30:29.319 --> 00:30:31.819 the lighthouse was a Canada post office in the 00:30:31.819 --> 00:30:35.140 lower level. What? Which is fun. Actually, I 00:30:35.140 --> 00:30:37.819 don't think it was that long ago that they stopped 00:30:37.819 --> 00:30:41.099 making it a post office because of concerns of 00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:43.660 mold growth. Actually, I think it was at the 00:30:43.660 --> 00:30:46.160 same time that they changed the light to red 00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.839 that they also closed the post office. Okay. 00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.180 As far as I have seen. Interesting. It's kind 00:30:51.180 --> 00:30:55.099 of difficult. The amount... Of conflicting information 00:30:55.099 --> 00:30:59.359 on this lighthouse online is mind -boggling. 00:30:59.740 --> 00:31:02.519 That'll happen sometimes. You just have to choose 00:31:02.519 --> 00:31:03.980 what you think is right. Pick one and go with 00:31:03.980 --> 00:31:08.039 it. Yeah, that's the problem. There's no way 00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:11.759 to tell what is the truth. You just have to run 00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:14.519 with something. I just tried to find some piece 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.339 of information that's listed twice, and then 00:31:17.339 --> 00:31:21.960 I'm like, okay. It's confirmed -ish. Most of 00:31:21.960 --> 00:31:24.579 the time, everything's lined up, but lighthouses 00:31:24.579 --> 00:31:26.380 like these that don't have a lot of information, 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:28.480 and I'm like, I've got all these different references 00:31:28.480 --> 00:31:30.759 because I'm trying to piece stuff together. Especially 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.559 foreign lighthouses from the United States. It's 00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:36.660 hard, even Canadian, because they just don't 00:31:36.660 --> 00:31:38.839 have the same records. Yeah, they closed the 00:31:38.839 --> 00:31:40.680 post office, but while it was open, you could 00:31:40.680 --> 00:31:43.319 send out letters, and you would get a special 00:31:43.319 --> 00:31:46.410 cancellation stamp. in the shape of a lighthouse. 00:31:46.710 --> 00:31:49.549 So cancellation stamp is the mark they put on 00:31:49.549 --> 00:31:51.390 top of your stamp when they send it through the 00:31:51.390 --> 00:31:53.289 post office. So you can't like unstick it and 00:31:53.289 --> 00:31:56.849 reuse it. We saw that with the Tylenol murders 00:31:56.849 --> 00:32:00.009 on Netflix. What are you talking about? The guy 00:32:00.009 --> 00:32:02.670 sent the letter from New York city. Oh yes. But 00:32:02.670 --> 00:32:04.829 with the little, the little squiggly lines, like 00:32:04.829 --> 00:32:08.109 this guy who was trying to, how did I say? It 00:32:08.109 --> 00:32:10.809 was, um, He's trying to take credit for the Tylenol 00:32:10.809 --> 00:32:13.710 murders. As somebody else in order to get them 00:32:13.710 --> 00:32:16.250 in trouble. And they're like, well, he addressed 00:32:16.250 --> 00:32:19.690 it from Chicago, but when you send it, they stamp 00:32:19.690 --> 00:32:22.470 it with where it was sent from. They showed the 00:32:22.470 --> 00:32:24.690 stamp. It was like, New York City. Yeah. Like, 00:32:24.769 --> 00:32:28.089 you idiot. So there's no way this person was 00:32:28.089 --> 00:32:31.869 in Chicago. Yeah. Everyone should go listen to 00:32:31.869 --> 00:32:34.990 that. A little plug for a Netflix show. The Tylenol 00:32:34.990 --> 00:32:37.750 murders. They need us. It was really good. Vince 00:32:37.750 --> 00:32:42.910 didn't like it because it's a cold case. Yeah. 00:32:43.069 --> 00:32:46.829 Spoiler. It's a cold case. It says it on there. 00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:51.130 I didn't know. That was something that I just 00:32:51.130 --> 00:32:53.230 didn't mention to you because I knew that you 00:32:53.230 --> 00:32:55.829 wouldn't want to finish it. Oh, my gosh. I've 00:32:55.829 --> 00:33:02.329 been catfished. My own home. I'm sorry. All right. 00:33:02.329 --> 00:33:05.279 Let me see. Where am I? stamp lighthouse closed 00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:09.700 yeah mold growth closed the post office 2010 00:33:09.700 --> 00:33:13.079 the canadian coast guard declared the lighthouse 00:33:13.079 --> 00:33:16.819 as surplus along with most of the lighthouses 00:33:16.819 --> 00:33:21.140 in canada like large large majority of the lighthouses 00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:25.359 and the lighthouses had until 2012 to be claimed 00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:27.720 by someone to take care of them or else they 00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:31.480 would face destruction that's fast i know So 00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:33.640 the Heritage Lighthouse Preservation Act was 00:33:33.640 --> 00:33:36.819 passed in that year with 74 lighthouses protected 00:33:36.819 --> 00:33:39.839 on it. So 74 lighthouses were claimed by somebody 00:33:39.839 --> 00:33:42.539 and they would do the upkeep, which the Coast 00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:46.240 Guard still uses the light. It's just that the 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:49.220 structure, they would replace the structure with 00:33:49.220 --> 00:33:53.000 a light on a stick in order because they're not 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.720 going to do maintenance on all these lighthouses. 00:33:55.880 --> 00:33:59.299 So 74 lighthouses on there. It didn't include 00:33:59.299 --> 00:34:03.920 Peggy's Cove. And now, over 100 lighthouses are 00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:06.559 on the list, which are kept up to date on the 00:34:06.559 --> 00:34:09.380 Parks Canada website. So you can go and actually 00:34:09.380 --> 00:34:11.179 look through all the lighthouses that are on 00:34:11.179 --> 00:34:14.760 this preservation act. Unfortunately, still does 00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.719 not include Peggy. But somebody's taking care 00:34:17.719 --> 00:34:19.800 of Peggy. And I can't figure out what's going 00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:22.760 on. I did see that a local painter's union comes 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.000 to paint every few years. So visually, looks 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:30.269 nice. It could be owned by the city too. I mean, 00:34:30.269 --> 00:34:33.369 it's just. No. Okay. There's the other thing. 00:34:33.489 --> 00:34:37.730 Nova Scotia's premier, who I think is like their 00:34:37.730 --> 00:34:40.989 governor. I'm not sure. Okay. Daryl Dexter. He 00:34:40.989 --> 00:34:43.630 said the province itself was negotiating taking 00:34:43.630 --> 00:34:46.110 over the light, but they didn't. That was whenever 00:34:46.110 --> 00:34:49.329 it first was declared a surplus. The Preservation 00:34:49.329 --> 00:34:52.989 Society website says on the same page that it 00:34:52.989 --> 00:34:56.429 is and isn't operational. Like in two different 00:34:56.429 --> 00:34:59.750 spots on the same page, it says still operational. 00:34:59.969 --> 00:35:03.349 And then up, it says no longer operational. So 00:35:03.349 --> 00:35:07.369 it's just hard to, I just can't tell. There's 00:35:07.369 --> 00:35:09.510 a Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society 00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:13.190 that was also formed in 1993. And they have a 00:35:13.190 --> 00:35:14.909 hand in a lot of preservation work over there. 00:35:14.969 --> 00:35:17.730 But I don't know if Peggy's Cove is on the list. 00:35:17.869 --> 00:35:20.349 Well, it could be that it's someone taking care 00:35:20.349 --> 00:35:23.030 of it. This is not part of the preservation act 00:35:23.030 --> 00:35:26.010 or preservation society. Yeah. Like we have in 00:35:26.010 --> 00:35:27.570 the United States, there's people taking care 00:35:27.570 --> 00:35:29.329 of lighthouses because they own them or they 00:35:29.329 --> 00:35:31.769 have an interest in them as a volunteer, even 00:35:31.769 --> 00:35:34.590 though they weren't in the Lighthouse Preservation 00:35:34.590 --> 00:35:38.269 Act, which is 2000, somewhere around there, circa 00:35:38.269 --> 00:35:41.710 2000. So similar type of story, I would guess. 00:35:41.809 --> 00:35:44.530 And honestly, if I was involved at all with that 00:35:44.530 --> 00:35:48.489 city of Peggy's Cove and you have any tourism, 00:35:48.590 --> 00:35:51.929 like we've talked about a dozen times, you know, 00:35:51.929 --> 00:35:54.510 it's a good draw for people. For photo opportunities 00:35:54.510 --> 00:35:56.849 and tourism. Most photographed lighthouse in 00:35:56.849 --> 00:36:00.769 Canada. You got to keep it. So somebody's in 00:36:00.769 --> 00:36:03.289 charge of it. My problem is just that I cannot 00:36:03.289 --> 00:36:06.730 find who owns this lighthouse. Somebody has to. 00:36:07.650 --> 00:36:10.289 Yeah. But I can't find it. May not be public 00:36:10.289 --> 00:36:13.570 record if it's United States versus. It's a little 00:36:13.570 --> 00:36:17.780 secret. But that's it. That's like all I got. 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:19.559 It's a great lighthouse. Everybody loves a little 00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.739 cove town. Yeah. Little red and white lighthouse. 00:36:23.039 --> 00:36:26.300 Did you look at the restaurants available nearby? 00:36:26.860 --> 00:36:30.739 No. Okay. But in my show notes, remember food 00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:33.579 is not in the perfect world. In the show notes, 00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:41.980 show notes have lots of tourist sites where they 00:36:41.980 --> 00:36:44.079 talk about they visited, they went here, they 00:36:44.079 --> 00:36:46.980 went there, they saw this. And so there is food 00:36:46.980 --> 00:36:48.860 listed in there. It's just there's a bunch of 00:36:48.860 --> 00:36:52.639 different places. Nice. But you guys can scroll 00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:54.340 through. I'm sure there are some well -known 00:36:54.340 --> 00:36:58.380 places. This is a popular destination to visit. 00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:01.539 So there's got to be lots of good recommendations 00:37:01.539 --> 00:37:04.280 out there. If your perfect world includes food, 00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:08.019 that's what you need to look for. Mine includes 00:37:08.019 --> 00:37:11.449 lighthouses for sure. I like it. Yeah, it's a 00:37:11.449 --> 00:37:13.849 cute one. Peggy's Cove. Yeah, nice tie -in. Cute 00:37:13.849 --> 00:37:16.869 little name. Bowie to episode. Yeah. Good number. 00:37:16.949 --> 00:37:19.090 That's how I found the lighthouse route was because 00:37:19.090 --> 00:37:21.090 Peggy's Cove is on it. I can't remember what 00:37:21.090 --> 00:37:24.030 I researched to find Peggy's Cove. I've talked 00:37:24.030 --> 00:37:26.489 about this before, but I type in something and 00:37:26.489 --> 00:37:28.730 end up with a lighthouse that's not related to 00:37:28.730 --> 00:37:30.510 what I researched. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure 00:37:30.510 --> 00:37:33.530 I looked up most remote lighthouse in Canada, 00:37:33.650 --> 00:37:35.389 I think is what I looked up. It's like most photographed. 00:37:35.630 --> 00:37:36.949 Most photographed, yeah. I'm like, oh, what is 00:37:36.949 --> 00:37:40.590 this? You said most, right? So that's basically 00:37:40.590 --> 00:37:42.809 it. Peggy's Cove Lighthouse and the lighthouse 00:37:42.809 --> 00:37:46.389 wrap. I like. Thumbs up. Let's see. I got one 00:37:46.389 --> 00:37:47.710 more episode and then it's going to be Vince 00:37:47.710 --> 00:37:50.210 again. So I hope you blow us away with something 00:37:50.210 --> 00:37:54.949 really good. Yep. Maybe a U .S. lighthouse. Maybe. 00:37:55.070 --> 00:37:56.409 You haven't covered a lighthouse in a while. 00:37:56.670 --> 00:38:01.909 Well, I am going to Sweden here. I know. Shortly. 00:38:01.989 --> 00:38:04.630 So in any case, I'm just saying. Maybe you should 00:38:04.630 --> 00:38:07.829 cover a Swedish one. That's what I was hinting 00:38:07.829 --> 00:38:09.969 at. But, you know, you never let them know your 00:38:09.969 --> 00:38:16.500 next move. Takes off. No, he's leaving. Vince. 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:24.320 Vince. Never. Never let him know. On that note, 00:38:24.380 --> 00:38:25.800 you actually could have just stayed away except 00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:27.900 I needed someone to press the outro button. That's 00:38:27.900 --> 00:38:31.739 what I'm good for. 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