A Day Trip To Lunenburg

One thing that Kathleen and I have added to our Atlantic visits is a day trip to another smaller town or scenic spot. Last year, it was Peggy’s Cove, and this year it was Lunenburg.

To be candid, there was no particular reason we selected Lunenburg. We had originally planned an overnight to Charlottetown, but reviewing hotels and their rates, we decided that it was not really worth the expense. (Sorry, PEI!)

Lunenburg was the result of street viewing around various small towns and it looking quite scenic, filled with enough shops to keep us interested, and a having reputation for being queer-friendly (it very much was).

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On Wednesday morning, we set out down the highway to reach the small town. We could have taken a more scenic route (Highway 3 instead of the 103), but since we were more interested in the destination than the journey, we decided on the faster highway. To get a little taste of the scenery leading up to Lunenburg, however, we made sure to go through Mahone Bay.

We arrived at Lunenburg around 11:30, parked the car, and decided to begin our exploration along Montague street. It didn’t take long before we started entering shops. Kathleen purchased two neat project bags at The Mariner’s Daughter, a lovely little yarn shop.

It was also here that I began finding books that I wanted! Lunenburg, it turns out, is home to three lovely bookstores, two of which we visited (the third, Elizabeth’s Books, keeps “quirky hours” and was not open).

The book shops we did visit were really nice!

At Block Shop Books, I picked up a copy of Shoshana von Blanckensee‘s ‘Girls Girls Girls‘ (which I’ve since devoured), and at Lunenburg Bound, Margaret Killjoy‘s ‘We Won’t Be Here Tomorrow‘ and Fawn Parker‘s ‘Hi, It’s Me‘.

After shopping about a while, we decided that it was time for lunch. We stopped by Annie J’s Cafe in the Sumggler’s Cove Inn, and had delicious sandwiches and refreshing iced (not sweet) teas.

It was then time to keep exploring!

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It was in scanning this roll that it occurred to me that the two rolls made on September 15 were not the result of a development error, but rather the meter on the AE-1 is out, resulting in underexposure.

Admittedly, it’s a bit of a relief. I’ve now developed over 250 rolls of film and the Tri-X/HC-110 combination is one I’ve used quite a lot.

While the nostalgia of using the AE-1 has been fun, this copy has become unreliable and I think that it’s time to retire it to the shelf.

I could pick up another copy, but it doesn’t give me anything that the Nikkormats, Nikon EM, or Pentax K2 don’t and I tend to prefer Nikon and Pentax lenses to Canon’s.