Saturday 25th July
Back to Deer Lake, the nearest real town with two, yes, two supermarkets. We filled up with propane and then filled up with groceries.
Back in the Gros Morne Park we headed into the Lomond campsite.
Like where we were for the last couple of days we are on Bonne Bay which dominates the centre of Gros Morne Park.
Another site with a view and the sun’s shining.
Carol thought there should be a pic of me once in a while. Here I am blending with the natives.
Sunday 26th July
A walk down to the shore with Buddy.
We’re both feeling like a hike and one runs directly from the campground to what used to be a mining town.
Not a trace is left after Parks Canada took it over.
Someone kindly placed a pair of Adirondack chairs on the shore. We’d only walked 2km but it had been seriously up/downhill
The sun was shining but the wind was cold.
Everywhere in the park are pretty wild flowers.
Views all around.
Only one way back, the way we came.
Monday 27th July
Onwards again on our way north to another Parks Canada site - Green Point, this time on the ocean.
Lots of rain.
Tuesday 28th July
A rainy morning but by the afternoon the sun peeked through and we did the Coastal Trail.
Completely different kind of walk compared to Lomond. No climbing here.
A lone fisherman.
Again with the snow on the distant hills.
Wednesday 29th July
Onwards again and out of the Gros Morne Park to River of Ponds and somewhere with power, showers and laundry.
Met a couple, Dennis and Sandy Sullivan, ‘our’ age from Florida who still have a sailboat and have invited us to tie up to their dock in St. Petersburg if we ever make it up the west cost to Tampa Bay.
Thursday 30th July
A day for laundry and blog writing by the shore of a lake.
Friday 31st July
Heading to the northern tip of the “Western Region” and the famous L’Anse Aux Meadows.
All the commercial campsites were apparently booked up but we found lots of room at the Pistolet Bay Provincial Park. The scenery here is trees.
Saturday 1st August
The weather is not good - cold and rainy but we’re here to see the sights so we pack up and drive to L’Anse Aux Meadows.
First place we went to was the recreated Norse village. As we learned, only the fighting Norsemen were called Vikings.
They have a replica Viking ship (the Snorri) that was built to emulate the trip that Leif Ericson made from Greenland to L’Anse Aux Meadows. It took the Vikings 9 days and their century later copycats 87 days - someone was a better sailor.
Fifty feet long weighing 30 tons.
They have people dressed in costume who will answer your questions and tell you about how people lived. It’s quite a setup. All the roofs are about 2’ thick logs covered in sod.
Afterwards we went to the Parks Canada Information building and the actual remains of the original village. I’m afraid the bumps in the ground are not that photogenic.
Some of the artwork is interesting though.
We’re not too sure what this represents though.
It’s made of a metal.
Sunday 2nd August
Sunshine!
We head off to St Anthony Bight which promises a trail with possible sightings of wales and icebergs.
When we get there we can’t find the trail but it doesn’t matter ‘cos fog has rolled in and there’s nothing to see.
St Anthony is the big town round here so we will do our food shopping there but first we do a bit of hiking.
Except this is more like climbing.
A staircase right to the top of the mountain.
Right in the middle of the above picture, just above the road - that’s the camper.
Once the fog rolls away (at least partially) fantastic views from the top.
This really odd view is a fog shrouded island, way in the distance.
Monday 3rd August
Another sunny day but when we get to Cape Onion it’s foggy. But we do get to see an iceberg even if it’s only a teeny weensy one.
We took a short walk looking for more.
Very forbidding with no sun.
Then the fog rolled away and it looks quite different.
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