NEWFOUNDLAND –WOODEN BOATS, A MINKE & A GANNET, AND A SUNSET.
Day 65 – Fog again this morning but it burned off quickly. You kinda wait with baited breath, will it stay or will it go. Rob walked amongst the rock walls to see his cairn. The sun was out when he came back.
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We packed our lunches and headed out to Bay de Verde again. The book we bought yesterday, Stories of Bay de Verde, needed to be returned and hopefully exchanged for a different copy. Rob was reading it and discovered 2 chapters were repeated and 1 ½ chapters were missing entirely. When we got to Blundon House and the store, they looked through the other copies of the book and none were like the one we’d purchased, thank goodness. How else would we know about the murder of Patrick Whalen? There were no whales at the Ocean pullout. On the way to Bay de Verde, we took a side road to the tiny village of Red Head Cove. Some of the houses were in disrepair but the scenery was beautiful.
We drove to the western side of the peninsula, stopping at the small grocery store in Old Perlican for some bottled water. From there, we drove down to Winterton to the Wooden Ship Museum, stopping to take pictures of what was left of an Iceburg. They sometimes become grounded & just remain in one place until they finally melt.
Melting iceberg, New Melbourne, NF
Melting iceberg, New Melbourne, NF
The Wooden Ship Museum was interesting. We walked through both floors, looking at the exhibits and reading about the history of the boats. There was a secondary building where the boats are still being made. Rob checked that out, too.
We got back to the RV around 4:30 and had said we’d be at the restaurant about 6 p.m. The weather was still good, a little cool, but we sat outside about an hour overlooking the harbour. A little after we came inside, a Minke Whale showed up in the Harbour below the RV. Rob had spotted it because there were Northern Gannets circling a certain place in the water; he assumed this meant there were Capelin, and where there were Capelin, there may be Whales. The seabirds were quite excited, too, and he got a picture of a Northern Gannet making a dive for some Capelin.
gannet diving for capelin
Minke, Grates Cove, NF
We went to the Artist’s Studio for dinner. We shared the upstairs room with views of the Harbour with a couple from Ontario, Canada. They were on a two-week vacation & were loving Newfoundland. They’d just left Fleur de Lys, a scenic fishing village on the peninsula closest to the Northern Peninsula, 3 or 4 peninsulas west of here. They said huge ships were being filled with Capelin there. (The Capelin are headed our way.) They also said they had encountered bears. Adventure awaits us!
For tonight’s feast, our last one here, we revisited the awesome Korean Pancake which we split along with tonight’s special noodle bowl, the Homemade Noodles with a Lemon Garlic Olive Oil dressing with Shrimp, Scallops, and Crab. We each had a Partridgeberry/Rhubarb Vodka drink and we split two desserts: Partridgeberries with Chantilly Cream and Pecan Shortbread and Chocolate Mousse with Chantilly Cream and Chocolate Chip Cookies. It was all perfect. We said our good-byes and went back to the RV. Later, there was an excellent sunset. We sure hate to leave here.
Sunset, Grates Cove, NF
Sunset, Grates Cove, NF