Shortly after the death of a 25-year-old man who was swept into the ocean at Peggys Cove in 2015, an eclectic group assembled to discuss how safety could be improved at the landmark southwest of Halifax.
One idea brought forward was to close the iconic site that attracts over 700,000 people a year and features a much-photographed lighthouse on a large outcrop of granite, one with tantalizing but slippery “black rocks” that descend to the water’s edge.
The idea was quickly rejected.
“People are still going to venture to find a way to get to the shore, to the ocean’s edge, to the black rocks beyond
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