It poured overnight and it was very windy with strong gusts. Right now, at 9 am, the sky is clearing and the sun is coming through. I caught up to my blog and all the pictures so far and posted them all on Web Picasa. I put the LAST sticker on my map showing that we have now travelled all 10 Provinces and the Lower 48 States in the USA. Yukon, North-West Territories and Alaska are all that’s left to do! I forgot to mention that yesterday, I bought two new windshield wipers as the old one are worn out from the sun and dust from the past month I guess. I feel much better today and rested.
After breakfast and showering, we drove to Cape Anguille, the Western most Point in NFLD (Longitude W 059* 24.677’) on Hwy 407/406, not far from here. More coastal villages including a very scenic drive, it took a couple hours with all the stops along the way. Cape Anguille consisted of a light house, still in operation, an Inn which was open and a couple of other building. We looked around then drove back the way we came. We stopped at an Esso garage on TCH 1 that had a sign for a liquor store so we bought a couple bottles of wine and ice cream cones for the drive home. We arrived back at our site just in time as it began to rain, heavy at times. We are inside relaxing and reading enjoying a glass of wine. It is still warm outside but very humid, even inside the rig. We have some window open to air out but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
Awake at 7 am and Val at 8, we showered and got ready to leave. It poured quite heavily overnight and now the Park has large puddles of water everywhere. We dumped on the way out then were on our way by 9:45 AM. We drove north on TCH 1. The scenery was mainly forest, marshes and the odd cultivated field. An hour later, we turned on Hwy 490 and headed through Stephenville Crossing and Stephenville then Kippens where our campground, Zenzville Park, is located. We paid $26 for water and electricity, set up at site 32 and left right away back to town. We had lunch at a local restaurant then went to Holiday Inn where we met Bernard Schump, the brother of a good friend, Dennis Schump age 75, who passed away a few years back. We had a short but very nice visit. From here, we drove along 460 to Cape George on Port au Port Peninsula which is renowned for whale watching (we looked but didn’t see any). There is a big commemoration at this site about the Acadians who fled Nova Scotia and New Brunswick back in the 1700’s after the English won the war over the French. Stephenville and the Peninsula is very much French and home to quite a few Acadians. We then drove to Lourdes on the north-west side of the Peninsula then back home for dinner. It was unfortunate that it rained most of our drive but we did see some fantastic scenery all the same and took lots of pictures. By the way, this is a very nice Park and very much family oriented.
N 48* 33.368
W
058* 39.821Alt: 164’
We travelled 91 miles (148 Km) in one hour and 50 minutes at an average 48MPH. We fuelled in Stephenville at $1.35/litre
I was up early, it is very humid inside and it makes it uncomfortable, I turned the heather on to bring down the level of humidity from 90 to 70%. The sky is clearing; we can actually see blue sky!
We left at 9:10 am under sunny sky and took Hwy 460 (rough) out which saved us 30 Km back to TCH 1 north. The drive was hilly and the scenery was mainly forestry and mountainous. We stopped at Tim Horton just north of Corner Brook and at Deer Lake, we turned North on Hwy 430. The road was quite rough and riddled with washboard in the asphalt. There were also a few construction projects in progress. We arrived in Rocky Harbour and stopped at the Parks Gate to buy tickets for our visits then onward to our campsite, Gros Morne RV Campground (not to be confused with Gros Morne RV Park which is part of the National Park. We had booked three nights so paid our dues, $90/night minus 10% discount (Good Sam) and 13% tax which almost negated each other.
While I set up, Val took the laundry over and did a couple loads (I was running out of underwears). We went for a drive into town and booked reservation for the boat ride tomorrow at 1 pm; we also had a drink at the pub and decided to have a bite to eat which spoiled our dinner; oh well! We also bought tickets and made reservation for for tomorrow for the 1 PM boat tour to the Fjord “Western Brook Pond”. We took a drive to Lobster Point and visited the lighthouse then came home for HH. There is one motorhome from BC here and we met bikers also from BC. After much consideration, we decided to stay home tonight and relax.
N 49* 34.899
W
057* 54.751Alt: 159’
We drove 129 miles (209 Km) in 2.5 hrs at an average 48Mph. We were stopped for 30 minutes.
9 am: It poured overnight again but when I got up the sun was shining; unfortunately, it didn’t last long as black clouds from the North West (residue from Labrador heavy storm yesterday?) came in and we had more rain. The sun DID come out and we did our trip to West Brook Pond. What a awesome scenic tour that was! We drove to the Trail Head after paying for the tour and walked in 3km on a very nice trail which meandered through low forest and swamp/bog. We arrived at the dock and within 20 minutes we were on our way up the Pond. It was much better than I ever imagined. Almost comparable to the Cdn Rockies! The tour operators were very informative about the region and how it came about which is basically from the Ice Age when the ice melted and this lake, pond as they call it locally, was land locked by upheaval in the earth crust. There are few fishes living in there and it is protected by UNESCO as a unique ecological area and I can understand why. The tour lasted two hours then we came back and walked back to the truck. We drove to Cow Head and looked around and had a beer at the local pub before driving back to Rocky Harbour. Cow Head is known for its live theatre. We fuelled at $1.37 then came home where we found three more rigs parked here. I downloaded the pictures of our day and uploaded them to our web Picasa site. I phoned St-Anthony and made reservations for Friday and Saturday.
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