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The Town of Mahone Bay on Nova Scotia's Southshore seems to have this thing about festivals and it never ceases to amaze me that no matter when I visit, the town is a beehive of activity.
Nestled on the western shore of a tiny bay from which it gets its name, Mahone Bay shares a maritime history with the icon of Nova Scotia seafaring towns, Lunenburg, located just a few miles away.
When I first began doing photography for Nova Scotia Tourism in the mid 1980s, Mahone Bay was a town you drove through on the way to Lunenburg, But that's all changed now and Mahone Bay has become a draw unto itself.
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From my perspective, the reasons are many. For photographers like myself, there is plenty to capture in the architecture of houses along the main street. The most obvious shot is of the three waterfront churches reflected in the placid waters of the bay.
If you look closely at the top two photos, you'll see there are actually five steeples showing and there is probably not a person who's visited the town who has not stopped to take these same pictures.
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Mahone Bay, the bay not the town, is a prime sailing area, mainly because of the hundreds of offshore islands and that make the town itself an obvious stopover for yachts cruising the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia. The protected waters are great too for kayakers and operators of small boats.
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The town also has a fine array of eating places, craft shops and accommodations. Lodging is offered mostly in B&Bs in large historic homes . . . no brick and mortar hotels or motels here.
But what about festivals. There's one for wooden boats; another for scarecrows and carved pumpkins and even one in December for Father Christmas.
Have a look . . .
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For more information on Mahone Bay and Southwest Nova Scotia click on some of these sites:
www.mahonebay.com
www.exploreourshores.com
www.destinationsouthwestnova.com
www.novascotia.com
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