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Hallelujah! Yay, Peggy! 🙌🙌🙌
The tourism industry isn’t for the faint of heart. Someone has to make sure our guests survive all those scenic views. 🚐
Our HR department has received these concerns and will be ignoring them accordingly.
Please keep our guides in your thoughts during this difficult time.
06/13/2026
" In March 2024, the Queens County Fish and Game Association embarked upon an effort to define and recommend additions to both the Tobeatic Wilderness Area and the Tidney River Wilderness Area. Those mapped additions total over 20,000 hectares. These designations will provide a large contiguous area of endangered mainland moose habitat, without harvesting or roads. Moose are easily disturbed by forestry operations, and on many occasions, the result is that they bolt towards the coast, where they are usually poached within one week. We had incorrectly hoped that the province would not procrastinate on our March 2024 additions request.
Minister of Environment Tim Halman thanked our association for the submission and passed it on to his Parks and Protected Areas division. Both Premier Tim Houston and Minister of DNR Tory Rushton were copied on that request.
The province was working with Ottawa under an agreement to spend approximately $28.5 million to designate enough protected areas to reach 15 per cent of Nova Scotia by March 31. Purchasing private woodlands would allow the Crown to designate protected areas while maintaining sufficient forestry lands. Unspent money will likely need to be returned to Ottawa.
DNR staff plotted on the Nova Scotia Harvest Map Viewer about 20 new harvests, existing within our proposed additions. They are problematic locations for forestry as endangered mainland moose currently utilize those locations. Negative responses by citizens to DNR appear to be ignored.
DNR is creating high-production forestry (HPF) in remote areas in the province. The land will be clear-cut, trees planted, fertilized, sprayed after two years to kill the hardwoods, thinned at 25 years, and harvested at 50 years. Taxpayers will pay the high costs to maintain remote roads and bridges to locations for 50 years."
https://www. saltwire. com/nova-scotia/halifax/opinion-halifax/opinion-endangered-mainland-moose-being-neglected-in-western-nova-scotia-and-beyond
This video starts with p**p jokes and somehow ends with public policy.
We blame the government.
(And maybe the slight breeze coming up through the toilet )
Turns out there’s a lot more to Peggy’s Cove than just the lighthouse 👀
And in a rare sighting… Ian has once again appeared on the Alternative Routes socials 😂
He put this little reel together after stopping in at the old schoolhouse with Peter from the preservation society for some local history, old carvings, and a few possibly questionable “facts.”
One of the best parts of exploring Nova Scotia slowly is finding the tiny places most people walk right past.
(Also, the ‘Facebook statuses of the 1800s’ line is unfortunately now part of official Alternative Routes history.)
PEI is calling 🌊🍓☀️
Join us June 16 for a 3-day island getaway from Halifax filled with hidden beaches, fishing villages, fresh seafood, red cliffs, Anne country, and some of the most beautiful coastal drives in Atlantic Canada.
This isn’t a rushed “see everything in five minutes” kind of trip. We keep things relaxed, flexible, and fun — with time to actually enjoy the places we visit.
Small group. Good people. No stress. We handle the driving.
Only 2 spots left ✨
We need to be pushing all levels over government harder, right now. Is anyone actually enjoying what has become of Halifax?
There’s something about the first sight of the Bluenose II back in back at the dock, that feels like the unofficial start of summer in Nova Scotia. ⚓️
After spending the winter tucked away for maintenance and restoration, the Bluenose II has officially returned to the water — and honestly, she still knows how to make an entrance.
The original Bluenose was launched in Lunenburg in 1921 as both a fishing schooner and racing vessel. She went on to become one of the most famous ships in the world after dominating international races and earning the nickname Queen of the North Atlantic. Today, her legacy lives on through the Bluenose II, which was built in 1963 and remains a symbol of Nova Scotia pride, resilience, and life by the sea. You’ve probably got her in your pocket right now — she’s the ship on the Canadian dime. 🇨🇦
Seeing her back in the harbour never gets old. Tourists stop in their tracks, locals suddenly become historians, and everyone collectively remembers we live somewhere pretty special.
Nice to have you home, Bluenose. 💙
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