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TRAVEL DAY
From: Sop’s Arm Park, Sop’s Arm, NL.
To: Town of King’s Point RV Park, King’s Point, NL.
Day 45 – The low last night was 33 degrees and it rained all night. When we got up this morning, the temperature was 35 degrees and it was still raining & windy. No snow had fallen. Today we drive to our next camping stop at the Town of King’s Point RV Park.
We departed Sop’s Arm at 10:30 a.m. It was still 35 degrees, rainy and windy. When we arrived at King’s Point, nothing had changed; the temperature and weather conditions were the same. We hoped to see more Moose, but maybe they don’t come out of the tree covering when the weather is lousy. Nah, I’m sure they’re used to it by now. We traveled south on Route 420. No Moose, but when the road took us through the mountains, the temperature dropped to below freezing, and we were sure it would snow. It didn’t, but the trees and bushes by the sides of the road were frosty with ice.
We continued on Route 420 until we reached the Trans Canada Highway 1; then we headed east. We immediately felt we were back in civilization again when we soon encountered road work. By the way, in Canada, no matter how bad the weather is, the road work continues! It didn’t hold us up; there was hardly any traffic. We traveled through rolling hills with mountains in the distance, barely visible through the rain. We passed several large lakes and rivers. No cities or towns until we got closer to our destination, then there were a few turn-offs. The entire trip, we had dense forests of Spruce and stands of beautiful White Birches on both sides of the highway. Very nice, when we could see them clearly through the rain and fog.
We turned north on Route 390, then west on Route 391, drove a little ways and soon after entering the town of King’s Point, we reached the end of our journey. It was 12:25 p.m. and it was 35 degrees and raining. When we first saw the campground and the excellent view from there, we were surprised. King’s Point lies at the end of Green Bay, a narrow strip of water. On both sides of the Bay, there are many tiny villages which we will be exploring once the weather improves. But what surprised us was – the Bay was filled with ice pack, a lot more than what we encountered at Jackson’s Arm. We didn’t realize that the ice came all the way into the end of the Bay.
We were assigned site #4, right on the Bay. We had full hook-ups AND a signal; what a concept! The campground is small with only 13 campsites. Counting us, only 4 sites were occupied and it’s the weekend, albeit a cold and rainy weekend. Grin. We let the babies out. No problems; they liked it here. We had lunch and unpacked. We will be here for 5 nights. We can look up the weather forecast for a change.
Later – the high today was 36 degrees. It’s still raining and a bit windy. The girls spent the entire afternoon cuddled up and sleeping. We caught up on the blog; it was already written up and Rob had already worked on the pictures we’d taken, but we’d needed the internet to upload the pictures to the blog. (We’d had plenty of rainy days to keep the blog caught up to that point.) Then we checked e-mail – Nikki thank you for the updates: I will get back to you soon. And the weather forecast: there will be lots of rain while we’re here, but tomorrow and maybe Monday during the day, it may stop raining, leaving us with plenty of clouds, but also plenty of time to explore. We celebrated that possibility with a glass of beer and wine.