Day trip to Lunenburg and The Ovens park
Nice site on the pond for our first night on “the rock”
Picked up Amazon package with Sigma zoom lens at PO in Deer Lake
Ate lunch I a school parking lot
Lovely sunset at Lobster cove head lighthouse after final lunch with Gary and Mary Gagnon
Long dribble move from Gros Morne to Dildo Run park
Great dinner at Doyle Samsome and sons seafood and then off to see whales at Crow Head
Site of brimstone head folk fest every august at Brimstone Head Park and campground run by lions club
Spent Labor Day weekend in St. John’s
Rainy day, Jim tried to get an oil change in St Johns but had no luck. Oil life is 8%
Cape race lighthouse. Oldest reinforce concrete lighthouse in North America built 1909
Mistaken Point fossil site where they’ve found fossils from 550 million years ago.
Watched Ganetts at Cape St Mary’s wildlife preserve
Took ferry from Argentia NL to Sydney NS
Hurricane Earl off the southeast coast of NL forced us to depart at 1pm, 4 hours earlier than planned. Captain taking a route staying close the south coast to avoid the NNE winds of 40-60mph
Arrived in Nova Scotia by ferry and drove to Halifax for Char’s iPad and then to Yarmouth for ferry to Barharbor Monday