Some touring questions on Halifax, NS

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We will be visiting Halifax and since we've been there before and seen the town we would like to rent a car. We were thinking of visiting Peggy's Cove, Mahone Bay, and Lunenberg.

 

1. Are we better going out first to the furthest distance place which would be Lunenberg (approx. 1 hr 15 mins), then visit Blue Rocks (which is only 6 mins away), head towards Mahone Bay and then Peggy's Cove? Is that the order you would suggest?

 

We figured it would be better for us to visit Peggy's Cove last since most of the tour buses would have left by then plus we would be only about 45 mins from Halifax.

 

2. Is this doable if our ship is in from 8am -5pm and we would like to be back on board the ship by approx. 4- 4:15pm. We are figuring we probably won't get to even leave until around 8:30am until we get the rental car.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as I would like to finalize our plans on this port.:)