NEWFOUNDLAND – RODDICKTON TO ENGLEE.
Day 35 – The campground was very quiet last night. We feel like we are in the middle of nowhere, all by ourselves. Hmmm, I guess that’s true! At 7 a.m. it was 38 degrees & cloudy. The wind picked up, it stayed cloudy all day, and it never got above 42 degrees out. It’s supposed to rain all night tonight.
We relaxed all morning, took naps with the girls, and sat around until after lunch. At one point, Pixie came scooting out of the bedroom, fur all fluffed out, and ran to the front window. We looked out & there was a Red Fox out near the front of the RV. By the time we grabbed the camera, it was doing its business, then it ran off. We’ll grab a picture of an animal doing anything, LOL. We told Pixie she was a good girl for guarding us against the big red dog, and she settled down.
Red Fox, Armistice RV Park, Roddickton-Bide Arm, NF
Red Fox, Armistice RV Park, Roddickton-Bide Arm, NF
We drove to the end of Route 433 and checked out the fishing village of Englee. It was cold, wet, foggy, and cloudy. Still, it was a scenic little town with many of the occupants living on a small island, Bar’d Island. The houses & fishing shacks were all clustered colorfully right along Canada Bay. Some of the buildings were sitting on rocks and wooden piers. In the distance we could barely see a couple of small icebergs. We will go back to Englee when it’s sunny to get more pictures.
Englee, NF
Walking Trail, Englee, NF
Icebergs, Englee, NF
It looks like we’re going to be here for awhile before going back up the Northern Peninsula to Pistolet Bay Provincial Park. (This was the campground we’d been looking forward to staying at, but due to the rough winter, they could not open in time.) Once we saw our visit to Pistolet would be delayed, we’d ordered our mail to be sent to us here at Roddickton/Bide Arm from the mail delivery service in FL. We got the tracking number this morning and it won’t be here until June 7 at the earliest. We’re thinking that instead of Air Mail the postal service is bringing it on foot. (That means the books, too, Gail!)
After the drive to Englee, we went back to Roddickton and stopped at the only grocery store to service all these small towns southwest of St. Anthony. A small store, they still did a pretty good job of packing lots of food into the small area. Vegetables are still lacking & you don’t have a big choice of brands, sizes, and different types of an item, but it will do for once we run out of the food we bought in St. Anthony earlier this week. We went to the tiny post office to let them know that eventually they’d be getting a box of mail from FL, general delivery. Then we drove around Roddickton, through neighborhoods, checking out the town. There is one restaurant for the whole group of towns here – Lumberjack’s Landing/Greco’s Pizza Express, which we will check out only if we get desperate. The next closest restaurant is about 90 miles away. Luckily there is a gas station that sells propane.
Driving out of the last neighborhood we’d checked out in Roddickton, we saw a healthy Moose eating greenery by the road. Today’s count: Moose 1, Caribou 0, Red Fox 1, lots of gulls & some Brandt (Canada Goose-like but shorter necks).
Moose, Roddickton, NF
Moose, Roddickton. NF
Back at the RV the girls are sleeping and it’s still quite overcast. One thing though, it’s the end of May and in New York and Maine (we’d probably be in either place if we weren’t here), the Horrible Biting Black Flies and the Monster Mosquitoes would be out and about for sure. It’s too cold here for us to have to deal with bugs! Grin.