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mended. Swiss chef Roland Glauser is constantly revising an extensive annotated wine
list to accompany his ever-changing menu of local seafood, meat and pasta dishes.
Information
Visitors Information Center
(VIC;
902-875-4547; 31 Dock St;
8am-8pm May-Sep)
Has
copies of a self-guided historic-district walking tour.
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Barrington to West Pubnico
At Barrington you can choose to take the fast, not-very-scenic Hwy 103 to Yarmouth or
meander along about 100km of interesting coastline via Hwy 3. It's worth taking a detour
to
Cape Sable Island
(not to be confused with Sable Island), a puddle-flat appendage
that is Nova Scotia's southernmost point. Many of the island's windy, white-sand
beaches are designated as 'important bird areas,' and a few are piping plover nesting
grounds. The whole island tends to get banked in fog, which might explain why its light-
house is 31.1m tall, the tallest in Nova Scotia.
Not to be confused with all the other nearby Pubnicos, West Pubnico is an old Acadian
community.
Le Village Historique Acadien
( 902-762-2530; Old Church Rd; adult/child
$6/2; 9am-5pm Jun-Oct)
re-creates an Acadian village, with a blacksmith shop, a
timber-frame house and a fish store.
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Yarmouth
Yarmouth is the biggest town in southern Nova Scotia, due mostly to the ferry that linked
the province to Bar Harbor (Maine) since the 1950s. Sadly, the ferry service stopped in
2010, although the area has been fighting to get it back ever since. Without the ferry, Yar-
mouth has had a tough time. The only really pretty area is out beyond town around the
lighthouse but, like anywhere in the province, stay awhile and the people will win you
over.
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