In the photo at the left, Frank (tour bus driver) welcomed me to Labrador. We came to Labrador by ferry from St. Barbe, Newfoundland, and docked at Blanc-Sablon, Quebec. Then we bussed the few kilometers to Anse-au-Claire, Labrador. The weather was not the best, foggy and rainy, but we saw the light house at Amour Point and the museums at Red Bay.
When we returned to St. Barbe, we traveled to St. Anthony to visit the site of a 1,000 year old Viking fishing village. Cousin Jim discovered a leak in a hydraulic cooler on the motor home and went in for repairs. The repairs lasted for about 25 miles of driving and we barely made it back to St. Barbe. Jim made a trip to Corner Brook (215 miles each way) to see if the cooler could be fixed. The answer was no!! A new cooler has been ordered and should arrive in about five days.
In the meantime, the group we were traveling with has moved on to Gander and St. Johns and will take the ferry back to North Sidney, Nova Scotia, on July 27th. We hope to catch a ferry on the 29th.
I have had very limited internet service, but will try to catch you up on the travels over the next week.
Warmest regards, Gus
Yesterday I toured the Port Au Port Peninsula, located west of Stephenville, NF. Mainland is a small town on the west side of the peninsula on the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Along the way I visited the site of a C-54 crash in 1944, and met some wonderful people. It would be hard to over estimate the warmth and hospitality of the people of Newfoundland.
I have seen some moose in Newfoundland but this is the only one which would allow me to sit on him for a picture! This moose is at the Irving gas station in Deer Lake. Most of the live moose I have seen were up north near St. Barbe. I have also seen a few around Gros Morne National Park.
Here is my friend Sami retrieving her "duck" from Bonne Bay. In the background is the opening from the bay or cove into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. After many days of fog and rain, we finally had a nice sunny day.
Here I am over loooking Bonne Bay, at Norris Point. This is near Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland, and part of the Gros Morne National Park.
In the photo at the left, Frank (tour bus driver) welcomed me to Labrador. We came to Labrador by ferry from St. Barbe, Newfoundland, and docked at Blanc-Sablon, Quebec. Then we bussed the few kilometers to Anse-au-Claire, Labrador. The weather was not the best, foggy and rainy, but we saw the light house at Amour Point and the museums at Red Bay.
This is my new friend Jessica, whom I met at Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. She mixes a pretty good drink and told me some of the history of the area. I have not had internet service for several days, so I will catch up on my travels soon. Since Mahone Bay, I have been to Lunenburg, Peggy's Cove and today I toured Halifax. Tomorrow I will attend a Canada Day parade and attend the International Tatoo.
I visited the reveresing rapids in St. John, NB, yesterdy. This picture was taken at low tide when the the water from the St. John River was flowing from right to left into the Bay of Fundy. Six hours later I went back for high tide and the water from the Bay of Fundy was pushing the St. John River "upstream" and the rapids were reversed. At "slack time" between high and low tide, the water is calm. At low tide as shown, there are about 10 million gallons of water per minute flowing through this channel.
