NEWFOUNDLAND – HARBOUR BRETON TO BUCHANS JUNCTION.
Day 100 – At 7 a.m. it was 62 degrees, sunny & hazy out. We packed up & departed Deadman’s Cove RV Park at 9:30. We had to dump tanks in town at the station provided by the town since there was no dump station at the campground, then we stopped to fill the RV with gas, so it was a little while before we really left town.
187 miles, (4:40), 41381-41568
We traveled north on Route 360 for about two hours before we reached the Trans-Canada Highway & headed west on the TCH until Grand Falls-Windsor. We got off there & stopped at a grocery store in the hope we could find some organic whole wheat flour. We’d bought extra previously for our bread-baking, but now we’re running out. They had no organic flour here, so we will hopefully survive with the non-organic flour we had to buy, LOL. We had our lunch in the RV while giving the kitties their lunch break.
Back on the TCH we continued west until Route 370 where we got off & headed southwest for our destination just beyond Buchans Junction – the Mary March Wilderness Park. This was the campground we scouted out a week and a half ago. At that time, we knew we’d be coming here for a few days at some point, but it was so off the beaten path, we weren’t sure when. We’d called yesterday to make sure our favorite campsite was available.
The trip from Harbour Breton to Buchans Junction seemed long, I think partly because we’d traveled all these roads before and were quite familiar with most of them, and because parts of the highway were in bad shape in places, making it not as comfortable as it could’ve been. The high today was 73 degrees and it went from sunny to cloudy to raining.
We arrived at the campground at 2:10 p.m. It was raining lightly & humid, 69 degrees. There was a good breeze which felt great in the humidity. We went to site #33, right on the large & beautiful Red Indian Lake. We set up camp & the girls liked it immediately. It was private, surrounded by trees, and quiet. The last two campgrounds either had lots of people and plenty of noise (Notre Dame) or were quiet but didn’t have the trees & privacy (Deadman’s Cove). When the rain stopped, we went outside to the screened tent which Rob had set up by the water. With the breeze the Lake had white caps & the water was lapping at the shore. The breeze also kept the bugs to a minimum. (It is amazing how many more bugs there are in the forested areas than the coastal areas, and since we’ve been spending most of our time visiting ocean locations, we haven’t had many problems – YET.)
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