Hi everyone, I'm Emily. And I'm Vince. And this
is The Lighthouse Lowdown. I tried to get you
with that one. My finger was hovering on the
button. I know. I realized as I paused that you
weren't going in hard enough for me to catch
you in the act, you know. Vince wants to talk
about coffee. I got an iced coffee today, which
is different than the latest. Freezes we've had
from Dutch Bros. I guess I could branch out,
but in my head, Dutch Bros is for the Golden
Eagle, and that's it. Which is like a... Because
it's special. I mean, all those drinks are super
sweet. Yeah. And I can get an iced coffee anywhere,
which is what I usually get from scooters. Well,
I'm pretty sure that I saw them put chocolate
milk in mine today. I don't remember what it's
called, but... Interesting. So, it is... Chocolate
milk with espresso, basically. It actually sounds
delicious. I think what I don't like about mocha,
the reason why I don't like mocha is because
it doesn't taste like chocolate to me. It tastes
like... Yeah, it's got some bitterness to it
because it's cocoa. Yeah. Typically. That must
be it. It's just like too pungent. I think chocolate
milk sounds a lot better than that. It's like
the spice of chocolateness. Ew. Some people like
spicy chocolate, though. I would despise that.
Like people that like spicy margaritas. So gross.
Anyway. Sorry to our listeners that like spicy
margaritas. But you're wrong. Keep it to yourself.
History buoy for the day. Nice. You know, you're
right. It is nice. And I have not failed. at
providing a lighthouse buoy in a really long
time. I'm pretty sure, like, since last year.
I mean, what episode are we on? 79? 79. So I
forget every time that there's lighthouse buoys.
Wait, what are you talking about? Like, I was
just, oh, yeah, lighthouse buoy. Oh, pleasantly
surprised? We've done this almost 80 times. But
you like them? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Today's
episode buoy is the Canadian lighthouse route.
I don't know this one. It made me think of, you
did a lighthouse. Oh, a hike, right? Yeah, the
Faro de Caminos. Caminos de Faros. I speak zero
Spanish, but it was in Spain. And there's a,
yeah, anyways. So it was a whole episode we did.
It wasn't a lighthouse buoy. Okay. But yeah,
it was a path of lighthouses that you could also
hike along the coast of Spain that ended in Land's
End. Yes, the end of the world or whatever. No,
I don't know. It was too long ago to remember
the details. But you guys can go listen to the
episode that talks about that if you want to.
You might want to after hearing this history
boy, which is rocking. Same vibe driving Nova
Scotia. Okay. So for people that don't know,
that's Canada. In Nova Scotia alone, I think
there's like 160 lighthouses. 50, about... Hang
that cord up. You know, over here, I was desperately
trying to find something to prop my foot up on,
and I just didn't notice that I was... I was
like, what is that sound coming from? It was
like my own leg touching our equipment. Yeah,
so I don't know what other... Hold on. I don't...
Okay. She still didn't do what I pointed her
to do. I don't know what other Lighthouse podcasters
do, but we have these really nice microphones,
and if you touch the cord, this is what you hear.
If you touch the stand, oh, that's pretty much
isolated. That's not bad. Because we've got those
little spring isolators. If you touch the table,
sometimes even putting down the cup. Anyways,
so we do our best here, folks. Sometimes stuff
happens. Sometimes you're going to hear, you
know. And just imagine if you're not here. We
have these giant headphones on listening to ourselves.
Yeah, sometimes I can't tell if it's something
that's coming through the audio or if it's just
like muffled in real life. Yeah, like there's
thunder outside right now. Yeah. So like. Yeah,
we had a tornado hit the Chiefs Stadium today.
Did it actually? I don't know for sure if there's,
like, damage, but it definitely was on the ground
over the stadium. Some people would be like,
oh, yeah. People said they'll just blame it on
the refs or something. Like, good one. That's
kind of funny. Anyway, what was I saying? Lighthouse,
Canada, Nova Scotia. There's around 50 lighthouses
of the 160 that are available to the public.
So that's a pretty good percentage. And I'll
pull up a picture. Of Nova Scotia. Well, the
part that we're talking about today. I guess
I just gave away that we're staying in Nova Scotia.
Anyway, the lighthouse route. Okay, I'm back
on. That was me. I can't find a good spot for
my feet. Just put them on the floor. I can't
reach the floor. You're on the stool. Put them
on the stool bar. It's not the same. I just like
to have my feet propped up. Oh my gosh. The lighthouse
route. It's not called the Canadian Lighthouse
Route. It's just the Lighthouse Route. But I
feel like there's bound to be others. So I just
specified that it's Canadian. Includes the southern
part of the province of Nova Scotia. Going all
the way along the coastline for a total of 339
kilometers. That is what I have a picture of.
The Lighthouse Route and what's called the Evangeline
Trail, I think. Let me check. Yeah, the Evangeline
Trail. So in the picture I pulled up, where it
says 11, that's also the start point, Halifax.
So from 1 to 7 is the Lighthouse Route. So the
south part of the bottom of Nova Scotia, and
then you start to come up the side, and then
from 7 to 11 is the Evangeline Trail. So I'm
doing kind of both. And all together, the lighthouse
way. Like this all together. Lighthouse route
is the first half. And then the last half is
the Evangeline Trail. But there's so many lighthouses
up there that it's kind of suggested that you
do the whole thing. Maybe it is 339 is lighthouse
route. Because the whole thing is over 1 ,000
kilometers. 652 miles. Okay. Easy drive. That's
what we're looking at. What we have up is they
were talking about driving it in an RV or something.
So it's split up by days that you spend there.
Oh, yeah, nice. Like camping out. Right. I'm
not going to go so deep. They went really deep
into that, and I have that in the show notes.
So if anybody wants to open that link, take a
look on what they suggest. what they tell you
to look at at each place, but I focused on lighthouses.
This link didn't have all the lighthouses, so
I left it behind. But the route covers a few
lighthouses and several picturesque towns, including
Halifax, Liverpool, Yarmouth, some other stuff.
And so you start at Halifax and drive south,
and you first hit Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, which
is actually the most photographed in Canada,
some say. Peggy. And Fort Point Lighthouse, which
is a replica of the original lighthouse, plus
also a big museum. Okay. So these are like, we'll
have to keep them on the list. These are ones
we'll have to cover. And then there's another
Fort Point Lighthouse in Liverpool. So same name,
very close together, but different lighthouses.
And on the way there, you can also see Port Medway
Lighthouse. And then Yarmouth is the last stop
on the lighthouse route. And on the way, you'll
see Sandy Point Lighthouse, Seal Island, and
Cape Sable Lighthouse. And then, so that's just
the first part. So there's not actually as many
lighthouses as you would think on the lighthouse
route. It's just kind of called that, I think,
probably because of the big ones that I just
mentioned. What? That was like seven you said
right there, right? Let's see. One, two, three,
four, five, six, seven. Wow. Boom. Great. I can't
speak. Passive counting. But, you know, we're
on this. I'm like over here, fingers and toes.
One, two. Okay, that's three. So, lighthouse
route. It doesn't have the most lighthouses,
but I think it has some big ones. So if you continue
along the coastline of Nova Scotia and start
going north again, that's when you hit a lot
of lighthouses. Yeah, when you get up to Muscadoubolt
Harbor. Digby, Annapolis Royal. How do you say
that? What is that? What? Muscadoubolt? Oh, Muscadoubolt.
I don't know. I don't know. How dare you ask
me to pronounce something? Well, I threw it out
there first. Shoot. So anyway, if you keep going
all the way around into a big circle, there's
a bunch of lighthouses up top. And somebody did
this drive and listed a lot of the lighthouses
that they saw. So the next one they had was Cape
Fortue, which is the tallest in Nova Scotia at
123 feet. So Nova Scotia's lighthouses are on
the shorter side, if 123 feet, which is still
a lot. But for that to be the tallest lighthouse
there is cute. And then we have Cape St. Mary
Lighthouse, Church Point, Bellevue Cove, Gilbert's
Cove, Digby Pier, Point Prim Lighthouse, and
so many more to see. That's a lot. To be fair,
we learned that taller lighthouses are not necessarily
better. Oh, of course. For range, for initial
cost, for maintenance, for climbing. But it's
very America that I think we have. Don't we have
the tallest lighthouses? We have a lot of tall
lighthouses. Probably on average, if not the
tallest. Yeah. We have the tallest lighthouses.
Because like the only really tall lighthouses
they have overseas are because they were supposed
to be symbols of power. Yeah. So then they built
them to be really tall just for that and not
for like. Yeah. So like America is like, we need
a bigger one. We need more bigger ones. We're
going to build a bunch of them. Where, you know,
you can be below the fog in a like triangle island
light, for example. Super, which is actually,
is that technically? It is Canada, technically.
Yeah. But it was built on this high cliff and
it was actually above the weather, which for
a ship is not useful. No. Didn't you say it was
like 400 feet in the air? It was way up there.
Yeah, 600, I want to say. Something wild for
an island. Something fell like 600 feet. Anyways,
that's a whole episode. Another Canada lighthouse.
You want to go see it? That was a long time ago.
We recorded that when I broke my foot. That might
have been my first one. No. I think that was
your first one. Yeah. Well, cool. That's the
end of my history buoy. Nice. So just a little
thing for our listeners. If they are adventurous,
want to travel, see a bunch of lighthouses. There's
a lot in Nova Scotia, so check it out. And we're
going to go into our episode today, which we're
staying in Nova Scotia, as I spoiled earlier.
Canada. Yeah, staying in Canada. And we're covering
the most photographed lighthouse in Canada and
most photographed landmark in Nova Scotia, which
is Peggy's Cove Lighthouse. Peggy's Cove. First
point to make. is that Peggy's Cove's official
name is actually Peggy's Point Lighthouse. That's
been true the entire time. But for some reason,
it's referred to as Peggy's Cove, and they just...
You have to be okay with it, because that's what
people are going to call it. That's weird. Because
actually, Peggy's Cove is... Let me show a picture.
So you can see the cove is actually... past the
point it's like yeah so the cove is physically
north but the point is clearly like a peninsula
yeah it's a point so the cove in the point peggy's
cove lighthouse is to mark the point and not
the cove the cove is actually marked by a light
anyway owned by the government oh i don't know
if it's called peggy's cove lighthouse but i
i think it's more of just like a light like a
small government light and then this what well
the road out there is called peggy's point road
oh yeah Okay, so. Which is, oh, that's the official
name. Yeah. But the local's name is Peggy's Cove.
I don't know. See, yeah, it's Peggy's Cove Viewing
Platform, Peggy's Cove Gift Shop, Peggy's Cove
Car Park. Tom's Lobster Shack. But there is a
Peggy's Cove, so it's just that the lighthouse
is actually called Peggy's Point. So keep that
in mind. I'm going to keep calling it Peggy's
Cove because it's just widely accepted that that's
what it's referred to. I accept that. There's
some speculation on where the name for the cove
came from, which was one of the interesting things
I saw while I was researching. This is the edge
of St. Margaret's Bay. So I don't have the full
Google image, but if you go up from this picture,
all that water is St. Margaret's Bay, and it
goes up further. So Peggy is apparently a nickname
for Margaret. I don't know how. Like there's
no P in Margaret. Wait. How does Peggy become
a nickname? I don't understand that at all. I
know. Like Richard and Dick. Yeah. But. It's
the same. Peggy. Peggy Margaret. It's a real
thing. So anyway, the most reasonable explanation
is that Peggy's Cove is in reference to St. Margaret's
Bay. Like, you know, tiny little body of water.
Like a little Margaret. Coming off. You're like,
oh. It's actually Peggy's Cove, a little nickname.
The fun idea is that there was a shipwreck a
long time ago in the cove, and the only survivor
was a woman named Peggy. And she stayed there
for the rest of her life. She married, had kids.
And so there's a lot of people that stand by
that this is why the cove was named Peggy's Cove.
And there are some people that even claim that
they're her descendants. Do you think that makes
sense? What? Let's say you're on a ship, okay,
Who knows what year? Not 1970. And then the ship
crashes and you're the only survivor. Do you
just stay and live a whole legendary life where
your ship happened to crash? Thinking of... Seems...
A long time ago. Sus. Well, what would you do?
I'd try to go back where I was from. If you're
a woman, you have... No way of doing that. So
you think actually she could have been freed
by the ship crashing and everyone else dying.
Maybe she caused it. Oh my gosh. What are you
talking about? Well, like social, like she, like
she was meant, I mean, I don't know. She says
like what the situation was, but she probably
didn't have like, you know, her own cell phone
or her own bank account. So I'm just saying,
you know, like maybe the shipwreck because she
survived was actually fortunate for her. And
so, you know, this could make sense then. I think
that she was probably somebody's wife or something
from a merchant coming on a ship, right? And
then it crashes, she loses everything. I'm assuming
this was long enough ago for things to still
be named, so it had to have been like 1400s or
something. Yeah, but they used to say that women
on board was bad luck. There's so very rarely
ever a woman on board a ship. That it was actually
bad luck. Yeah, but if she's coming to live over
here, like, you know, people came to the new
world. I guess we'll have to leave it at legend.
Well, how did we get to speculating about...
We can't interview her, so... I think that there's
no way for you to contact people back home. Nobody's
ever going to know that you crashed. You can't
go looking. If you find people... that are willing
to take you in, you have nowhere else to go.
There's no reason for a woman at this time to
go searching for anything else. She just needs
to start a new life. That's so crazy. Maybe she
was a child at that time. Peggy's kind of like
a nickname for a child. Or like a little version
of Margaret. That's going to be in our quiz whenever
I do a quiz on the show. It's been so long since
we did it. I'm just going to put it out there.
We're going to do a Lighthouse Cocktail Hour
with at least one more or two of our friends.
So I don't get to be a part of the quiz? No,
you'll be there. I told you, I'm serving drinks.
You're going to compete against them in this
quiz. I'm going to crush them. No, no, no. Your
questions are going to be harder than theirs.
What? Absolutely. I hope I'm not wrong. That's
unfair. No, it is fair because you're the host
of the show. You're actually the founder of the
Lighthouse Slowdown. So what are you doing? You're
like listening to the episodes all the way back?
I'm not going to tell you all that secret. I
want to know how accurate you're going to be.
You can't study. I would not. They'll have questions
like, you know, which of these is the lighthouse
that's the tallest? And it's going to be clearly,
you know, you would know. Absolutely. And then.
they won't know unless they listen to our show
and i'm giving them research now except they're
not going to listen to this i bet the people
i'm thinking about and then uh your questions
are going to be harder based on the history of
our show or facts that i know that you've heard
we've already established from our our most uh
some of our recent episodes that i don't remember
things perfectly and will defend them even if
i'm wrong i will have citations What? It's going
to be fun. It's going to be a fun lighthouse
cocktail hour. I'm kind of scared. What if I
look like an idiot? You know? You don't have
to worry about that. I think I do. You're going
to be like, what's something you, how many flash
panels on this Fresnel lens that you covered
in episode 13? It'll be multiple choice. I'm
going to be like, uh. It'll be multiple choice
and I'm not going to get, just let me do this.
All right. Okay, because I want to have fun,
and the only way to have fun is if I'm getting
most of them right. All right. Peggy is the reason
that we named this Peggy's Cove. Allegedly. And
we don't know if that Peggy is a bay or a woman,
and that's all we have to say about it. So the
area is known for being really unpredictable
when it comes to waves. I mean, obviously, we
ended up with a lighthouse out here, but... the
sea will appear calm. And I have the picture
up so you can see the side that's facing the
bay and the cove are super calm. And then right
at the corner and onward, you can just see how
choppy the water is. Yeah, a little more rock
and roll. You can see the currents and the foam
and the waves and everything. So it's unpredictable
and also gives you a false sense of security
coming up from one side. of peggy's point when
the other side is a super aggressive waves and
everything safe on one side yeah and these rocks
are like smoothed out so they can be really slippery
and you'll see picture later but they tell you
when you come out here that if you're not if
you're not walking on white rock then you're
in a danger zone because obviously when the rock
gets wet you can see it's like dark gray So it's
supposed to mark areas that are safer. So you're
on White Rock. But anyway, there's just been
a lot of instances where a wave will just splash
up. No warning or anything. Everything will be
totally calm. And then a wave comes out of nowhere
and will sweep people out. And there's like really
strong tides and currents and stuff over here.
So they actually have warning plaques on the
rocks. It says warning. Injury and death have
rewarded careless sightseers here. The ocean
and rocks are treacherous. Savor the sea from
a distance. What a wording. I know. Well, the
complaint from a lot of people who visit is that
it looks like not a current thing you have to
worry about. It's a plaque. Yeah, it seems like
a historical thing. There's been lots of people
who have died here. It doesn't look like. Hear
ye, hear ye. Yeah. It doesn't. It's not really
saying like you tourist stay away from the water.
You know how those signs usually are. Yeah. Upright.
Sharks here. And they're white and they're red
and they're plastic. This one's like. We're going
to use the word treacherous. A metal plaque on
the ground. I don't know. I would see that. It's
so unnecessarily artistic. I know. That's the
thing. It looks like it's something that, like
a museum, like it would say Peggy's Cove on it.
But they have this here because people die every
year from being washed out into the water here.
That's sad. I know. That would suck. But this
goes to show why they needed a lighthouse here
in the first place. So the first one was built
in 1868 and was a 26 -foot tall wooden integral
tower with a red light. Oh, we love integral
towers. I know. We haven't talked about one in
a long time. This nice old picture, you can see
they have stabilizers on the side because the
wind would get really high. Whoa. And the lighthouse
was known to vibrate with the wind, so they added
just these meaningless beams. Yeah, they're like...
They're like kickers. When you're putting up
framing for a building, you temporarily put these
45 -degree angles of wood. They just permanently
painted them. Also, what an interesting door
design. Yeah, going up two sides. But it's like
a porch that's enclosed, but it's not a porch?
It's interesting. It is, yeah. Why two sides?
I was going to say maybe it was a duplex and
just had a weird... front entrance but i don't
know if that's true because there's only one
lighthouse keeper at a time so unnecessarily
artistic it's a theme at peggy's cove cool photo
yeah it is in 1897 a fifth order lens was installed
and promptly was followed by an explosion in
the lantern room fantastic we've heard of before
there's never any reason given for this but i'm
sure there's lots of stuff going on in the lantern
room in the 1800s so They put the original lens
that was in their back inside. I think it was
just some metal reflectors. So they lost their
lens really fast. And we know how expensive those
are. Yeah, someone got fired. 1915, an octagonal
light tower was built nearby as a replacement.
I think it said like 15 yards away. That was
crazy. Yeah, I felt the thunder in the floor.
It shook the ground. No, Bo is hiding somewhere.
Gotta be in the kitchen cabinet. It's where he
hides when it storms. Love that. That was scary.
15 yards away. It doesn't say why it was replaced.
I don't know if it was just, it's a wooden tower,
so eventually it just starts to get aged. Well,
1915 is a long time later. Yeah, what did I say?
1868. Yeah, so that's over 50 years of right
on the water's edge, and we established this
as a windy, really watery area. Yeah, it turns
out vibrating houses don't last very long. Yeah,
it was being put to the test. An explosion as
well. Small insurance claim, like Allstate. Like
a good neighbor, and you hop up, and there's
an exploded rooftop. Well, I don't know how much
we can do about that. So the old tower, they
kept it and used it as the keeper's cottage.
But the tower, the light itself was, oh, maybe
they reused the lantern room. But I know that
when they changed to just using this as the keeper's
cottage, the lantern room wasn't on there anymore.
Okay. It's a nice picture of the cove. It actually
puts into perspective how small the area actually
is. So from far away, when you take a picture,
you can just see. Like in Google Maps, it's kind
of hard to see what the scale of everything is.
So in this old picture, after the new tower was
built, you can kind of see how small the cove
is. Really cool. Just a little spot. Historical
fishing village. Yeah, cool place to visit. Yeah.
The new tower was 50 feet tall with fixed red
light, which they changed to white after a few
years, and I'm not sure the reason for that either.
There wasn't a whole lot of information on this
one. It was kind of a shorter episode. Cool spot,
though. Yeah. And it's really, I guess I don't
know is the question, it's really kind of in
the middle of nowhere. There's not, this highway
it's along, there's not a whole lot of commerce
going on, do you think? Is it still a fishing
area? Yeah, it's still a fishing village. It's
more like quaint, historical. People go there.
I think I vaguely remember seeing that there
are 50 permanent residents and everybody else
has like a house there or visit as a tourist.
Because Halifax, I think, is the biggest city
in Nova Scotia. Big hockey team, if I remember
right. Really? I think so. Maybe I'm making that
up from a movie I saw. It does sound familiar,
but a lot of Canada's... Towns are also in England?
Yeah. Yeah, I noticed a lot of that. Halifax
Hockey. Halifax Mooseheads. Look at that symbol.
That's awesome. I am not much of a hockey person.
You're right. Yeah. Oh, okay. A Canadian junior
ice hockey team in the Quebec Maritimes. Junior?
In Halifax, Nova Scotia. Not a pro team. Junior
pro, looks like. All right. I tried. Well, still,
I mean, you were right. It's out there. It's
out there. There's hockey. 1954, a hurricane
damaged the old tower, and it was removed. So
that was the end of the first lighthouse. But
we still have our 50 -foot tower. Four years
later, Peggy's Cove Lighthouse is automated.
The light had seven different keepers in its
almost 100 -year history, with service ranging
from four years to 24 years. There was like a
lot of, there wasn't really a lot of in between.
It was like, there was a lot of four year service
and like six year service. And then there was
a lot of 20 and 24 year service. Interesting.
Yeah. And I could see why you'd hang out here
for like a lot of your adult life as you're aging
and stuff. It's like, it's a pretty quaint area.
Yeah. That's all anyone wants. Yeah. Something
quiet. People to hang out with in a pretty quiet
spot. People that like you. It's stuff you like
to do. If it has seafood and or steak, that's
a bonus. That's a bonus. You like look off on.
You're hungry. No, I'm just dreaming of retirement.
Okay. One of those two things. I don't think
of food when I think of like a perfect world.
Please comment below. Oh, no. What you think
of that. If you agree or disagree. You want to
bring other people into this? When you think
of a perfect world. Do you think of food? Do
you think that's weird? No. I think I disagree.
That's all. Okay. You just want more people on
your side. Well. What are you going to... I see
your little hand float. I'm moving on. I'm done
with your little interruptions. Later, they changed
the light to... Fixed green in the 70s. And then
back to red in 2009. I have a picture. Why change
the color so many times? Especially of the light.
I think that's interesting. I've seen a... Yeah,
the tower, like day marks have changed. But red
and green is kind of nice. Yeah, this used to
be all white the whole time. And then they painted
the lantern room red in 1969 after it was already
automated. So I think that's interesting. It
is interesting. That was 100 years of it being
a certain way. I mean, not this tower, but in
general, the day mark was white and black. And
now it's decided after it's automated to be white
and red. It's interesting. So the green stayed
all the way until 2009. So a lot of the pictures
you see of the Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia,
Peggy's Cove Lighthouse, is with the green light
still. I actually kind of had a hard time finding
a picture of it with its current light, which
is red. It was white, red, green, red. It was
red, white, green, red. Shoot. Brought it back
to the OG red 2009. And actually, for a while,
the lighthouse was a Canada post office in the
lower level. What? Which is fun. Actually, I
don't think it was that long ago that they stopped
making it a post office because of concerns of
mold growth. Actually, I think it was at the
same time that they changed the light to red
that they also closed the post office. Okay.
As far as I have seen. Interesting. It's kind
of difficult. The amount... Of conflicting information
on this lighthouse online is mind -boggling.
That'll happen sometimes. You just have to choose
what you think is right. Pick one and go with
it. Yeah, that's the problem. There's no way
to tell what is the truth. You just have to run
with something. I just tried to find some piece
of information that's listed twice, and then
I'm like, okay. It's confirmed -ish. Most of
the time, everything's lined up, but lighthouses
like these that don't have a lot of information,
and I'm like, I've got all these different references
because I'm trying to piece stuff together. Especially
foreign lighthouses from the United States. It's
hard, even Canadian, because they just don't
have the same records. Yeah, they closed the
post office, but while it was open, you could
send out letters, and you would get a special
cancellation stamp. in the shape of a lighthouse.
So cancellation stamp is the mark they put on
top of your stamp when they send it through the
post office. So you can't like unstick it and
reuse it. We saw that with the Tylenol murders
on Netflix. What are you talking about? The guy
sent the letter from New York city. Oh yes. But
with the little, the little squiggly lines, like
this guy who was trying to, how did I say? It
was, um, He's trying to take credit for the Tylenol
murders. As somebody else in order to get them
in trouble. And they're like, well, he addressed
it from Chicago, but when you send it, they stamp
it with where it was sent from. They showed the
stamp. It was like, New York City. Yeah. Like,
you idiot. So there's no way this person was
in Chicago. Yeah. Everyone should go listen to
that. A little plug for a Netflix show. The Tylenol
murders. They need us. It was really good. Vince
didn't like it because it's a cold case. Yeah.
Spoiler. It's a cold case. It says it on there.
I didn't know. That was something that I just
didn't mention to you because I knew that you
wouldn't want to finish it. Oh, my gosh. I've
been catfished. My own home. I'm sorry. All right.
Let me see. Where am I? stamp lighthouse closed
yeah mold growth closed the post office 2010
the canadian coast guard declared the lighthouse
as surplus along with most of the lighthouses
in canada like large large majority of the lighthouses
and the lighthouses had until 2012 to be claimed
by someone to take care of them or else they
would face destruction that's fast i know So
the Heritage Lighthouse Preservation Act was
passed in that year with 74 lighthouses protected
on it. So 74 lighthouses were claimed by somebody
and they would do the upkeep, which the Coast
Guard still uses the light. It's just that the
structure, they would replace the structure with
a light on a stick in order because they're not
going to do maintenance on all these lighthouses.
So 74 lighthouses on there. It didn't include
Peggy's Cove. And now, over 100 lighthouses are
on the list, which are kept up to date on the
Parks Canada website. So you can go and actually
look through all the lighthouses that are on
this preservation act. Unfortunately, still does
not include Peggy. But somebody's taking care
of Peggy. And I can't figure out what's going
on. I did see that a local painter's union comes
to paint every few years. So visually, looks
nice. It could be owned by the city too. I mean,
it's just. No. Okay. There's the other thing.
Nova Scotia's premier, who I think is like their
governor. I'm not sure. Okay. Daryl Dexter. He
said the province itself was negotiating taking
over the light, but they didn't. That was whenever
it first was declared a surplus. The Preservation
Society website says on the same page that it
is and isn't operational. Like in two different
spots on the same page, it says still operational.
And then up, it says no longer operational. So
it's just hard to, I just can't tell. There's
a Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
that was also formed in 1993. And they have a
hand in a lot of preservation work over there.
But I don't know if Peggy's Cove is on the list.
Well, it could be that it's someone taking care
of it. This is not part of the preservation act
or preservation society. Yeah. Like we have in
the United States, there's people taking care
of lighthouses because they own them or they
have an interest in them as a volunteer, even
though they weren't in the Lighthouse Preservation
Act, which is 2000, somewhere around there, circa
2000. So similar type of story, I would guess.
And honestly, if I was involved at all with that
city of Peggy's Cove and you have any tourism,
like we've talked about a dozen times, you know,
it's a good draw for people. For photo opportunities
and tourism. Most photographed lighthouse in
Canada. You got to keep it. So somebody's in
charge of it. My problem is just that I cannot
find who owns this lighthouse. Somebody has to.
Yeah. But I can't find it. May not be public
record if it's United States versus. It's a little
secret. But that's it. That's like all I got.
It's a great lighthouse. Everybody loves a little
cove town. Yeah. Little red and white lighthouse.
Did you look at the restaurants available nearby?
No. Okay. But in my show notes, remember food
is not in the perfect world. In the show notes,
show notes have lots of tourist sites where they
talk about they visited, they went here, they
went there, they saw this. And so there is food
listed in there. It's just there's a bunch of
different places. Nice. But you guys can scroll
through. I'm sure there are some well -known
places. This is a popular destination to visit.
So there's got to be lots of good recommendations
out there. If your perfect world includes food,
that's what you need to look for. Mine includes
lighthouses for sure. I like it. Yeah, it's a
cute one. Peggy's Cove. Yeah, nice tie -in. Cute
little name. Bowie to episode. Yeah. Good number.
That's how I found the lighthouse route was because
Peggy's Cove is on it. I can't remember what
I researched to find Peggy's Cove. I've talked
about this before, but I type in something and
end up with a lighthouse that's not related to
what I researched. Oh, yeah. I'm pretty sure
I looked up most remote lighthouse in Canada,
I think is what I looked up. It's like most photographed.
Most photographed, yeah. I'm like, oh, what is
this? You said most, right? So that's basically
it. Peggy's Cove Lighthouse and the lighthouse
wrap. I like. Thumbs up. Let's see. I got one
more episode and then it's going to be Vince
again. So I hope you blow us away with something
really good. Yep. Maybe a U .S. lighthouse. Maybe.
You haven't covered a lighthouse in a while.
Well, I am going to Sweden here. I know. Shortly.
So in any case, I'm just saying. Maybe you should
cover a Swedish one. That's what I was hinting
at. But, you know, you never let them know your
next move. Takes off. No, he's leaving. Vince.
Vince. Never. Never let him know. On that note,
you actually could have just stayed away except
I needed someone to press the outro button. That's
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