Leaving the ship this morning on the tender. I’m often amazed at the beauty of the Polaris and how lucky we are to get to sail on her!
Today we are visiting the little town of Lunenburg. It will be our final stop in Nova Scotia. It was started as a fishing town but of course it now is more a tourist destination. The entire downtown area is a UNESCO registered area and therefore the architecture was outstanding!
the waterfront is the home to both the Bluenose II ,a replica of the original schooner Bluenose and the Picton Castle, a racing tall ship . ( Im pretty sure we saw the Picton Castle in Hobart, Tasmania on our world cruise!)
a look backwards towards the harbor as we walk uphill to view the houses of the UNESCO sight. Where ever we travel, I find anything that has been designated a UNECSO Heritage site has something of value for me to see. Even in towns that seem just a sleepy fishing village!
Interesting side note: here a name or word beginning with the letter K is pronounced using the ‘K”. No silent K found! And this company is one of the local fisheries with the best scallops in the world. 
At the waterfront there is also a large black granite memorial to all the ships and sailors from the area who have been lost at sea. It was a very moving monument. The names were alphabetical and many times you can see where an entire family was lost…each of the seaside towns and villages we have visited have their own memorials of some type. The immense loss to these towns can be seen within the names on these columns. It is very sobering to realize the real cost of that piece of fish on my plate.
At the middle of the hill we see the reason for the UNESCO designation! Every house is brightly painted and a joy to see. The colors are due to the resourcefulness of the residents. These towns were isolated in the beginning and had the “use what you have” mentality. The paints used for their houses was left over boat paint! Brilliant use of leftovers!
Part of the town square complete with gazebo 
and war memorial 
City hall ( interesting side note for me..this looks almost like my JR high school)
While walking around looking at homes, we were shown an interesting slice of concrete at the corner of the VFW building. Lunenburg was settled by German settlers. One of the city’s industrialists (they also built ships and iron works) bought this and had it installed here. What is it? Any guesses?? Well, i can now saw Ive touched a piece of the Berlin Wall! It was brought here for a reminder to the local residents of a period of history.. their German history. I certainly didn’t expect to see/touch this!
The Anglican Church. 
Amazing cutout work. All the churches in town are painted white with black trim,no matter what denomination!
Well, isn’t this majestic! It used to be a primary academy but has since become the local library and community meeting place. Inside there is a representative classroom from the heyday of the town however when we got there to tour, the sign was on the door that it was lunch time. So I can’t really tell you what exact time period the class room was from…the building also houses the local theatre group and it sounded like the building was certainly getting second life with the community.
A bright pink house across the street is a familiar in film… not that I could distinctively tell you which films, but I can see it being chosen for locations for sure. I guess there was also a cat who came to live there who has a book! 
Ive looked it up and Amazon has it listed as a reader for 7-9 year olds about a cat who looks out of the potato sack he was stuffed in to see the new place he was at.. it sounds cute and a great way to introduce the town! We didn’t manage to see it in the stores mainly because we didn’t make it to any stores, but it sounded cute!
An example of the older houses. Settlers were given 500 boards and something like a thousand bricks to build their houses.
The RBC was an out of the norm stone building but very impressive.
It takes a secure person to live here! WOW what color!
a still functioning Inn
The Fish shack had fabulous fish and chips! Just imagine us sitting up on that balcony enjoying our lunch!
This is half way through lunch. For some reason, i never remember to get the picture first,then eat….there were two giant fish filets and a huge bed of fries ( chips here in CA) and itty bitty coleslaw cup. Maybe it was the sea air, the new friends or maybe the food was actually extra good…whatever it was, this was the best fish and chips in a long time.
We had one last look at the seaside businesses and boarded our tender to head back to the ship…
Today’s progress on the 5000 piece puzzle. Looks like they finally found most of the outside rim….but still boxes of pieces all around!
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