BAIE VERTE PENINSULA, DRIVE 1.
Day 111 – We overslept this morning. The cats, instead of jumping on us to wake us up, a couple of them actually climbed under the covers and went back to sleep. It was kinda cold this morning, maybe that’s why. The low last night was 54 degrees, it had rained, and it was very wet out. When we finally did get up, we turned the heat on – in August!
We got a later-than-desired start this morning for our drive. It was very cloudy out, not the best day for taking pictures, but the weather forecast is calling for rain most of this week. Therefore, we will be taking our exploratory drives when weather conditions allow it. We drove west on Route 414, the road with the bad conditions that we took getting here. When driving in the Honda, the road conditions didn’t seem bad at all. Plus, they are slowly but surely moving ahead with the repaving. At the 414/410 junction, we headed north, stopping for lunch at McKenna’s Family Restaurant in Baie Verte. The only restaurant in town, unless you want fast food, McKenna’s was nice enough, the service was good, and some of the food was good. The Caesar Salad wasn’t worth finishing, the Fish Tacos were good, and the Sweet Potato Fries were excellent.
We drove through Baie Verte, then continued north to the very scenic village of Coachman’s Cove. We took a picture of the iceberg that we saw yesterday from La Scie – at that time it was far off in the distance; it was much closer at Coachman’s Cove. We stopped at a Town Park where Rob took a hike with his camera and I walked around on level ground taking pictures of the surrounding area. Then we drove north to the end of the road near the top of the Baie Verte Peninsula. The village of Fleur de Lys was interesting with its painted rocks and scenery. Both Coachman’s Cove & Fleur de Lys were on the east side of the peninsula. The sun was peeking out from behind the clouds.
We turned around there and headed south on Route 410 until reaching the turnoff for two more villages, these on the western side of the peninsula: Wild Cove and Seal Cove. Wild Cove was definitely our favorite village on today’s drive. A very small village, quaint and lovely, quiet and not wild at all, it was situated around a lovely cove. With tall headlands on both sides of the cove and trees coming down clear to water’s edge, and the waves rolling into the rocks below, we didn’t want to leave. We looked it up – as of 2016 the population was 49. Seal Cove was a larger, more populated village, fairly different from Wild Cove, but still located at a cove that was very pretty.
After Seal Cove, we drove back to Route 410 and soon turned off on the 414, heading east back to La Scie. It was after 5 p.m. when we got back to the RV and several more vehicles had come in to camp. It had clouded up again. We’ll see if tomorrow is a decent day for more exploring.