Random Photos as I close out this Blog of our 56 day tour!!

In St. John, New Brunswick we witness the power of the tides in the Bay of Fundy.
Here at "Reversing Falls", the flow is out to sea from the St. Johns river which is
400+ miles long, and 6.5 hrs. later the tide comes in and reverses the flow up the
river. There is a period of "slack tide", of 20 minutes when the flow is neither in or out.
At this time pleasure boats can go through this area, but they have  to time it exactly.

We visited a Puffin colony in Elliston, NL (Newfound Land)

They are usually found in pairs nesting along the cliffs, you can get very close to them.

In Gander, NL there is a memorial dedicated to 286 victims of an air crash just off
the runway. They were coming from Europe in 1994, I think, refueled here heading
for Fort Cambell Kentucky when the crash occured. It is called the "Silent Memorial"
The center statue is faceing Kentucky and at Fort Cambell there is an identical memorial
with the statue faceing Gander, NL. The children represent the families who lost their parents.

This sperm whale died and citizens wanted the carcas removed and hired this
fellow to tow it out to sea. He dragged it to a remote spot and allowed it to
decompose for 2 years then collected the bones and reassembled it here at his museum.

An early Viking enclave has been restored in L'anse Meadow, NL

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Our most senior guest, Viola thumbs her nose when photographed! She is a
delight to travel with.

Cheryl photographed our guests and made this collage for each guest!

Louisburg, Nova Scotia

Across the harbor from our campground is the famous Fort Louisbourg as it appeared in 1744

Chery and guests rest on barrels to watch the fireing of the cannon at noon!

A parade prior to fireing the cannon

These are a few of the many rocks Cheryl has painted! She is doing one for each
guest if they bring her a washed stone and pick a primary color.

The light house at Louisbourg. This is the site where the first lighthouse was built in Canada
prior to the one here now.

Our red and white coach at the campground across the bay in Louisbourg.

Lots of crabbing done here so Cheryl and I bought 3 pounds of crab legs already cooked
and frozen, all we have to do is reheat and eat!

More Newfoundland

While in Twillingate, we went out on a whale watch and saw this iceburg. Soon
as we circled it we heard a large crack sound and it started to break up. You wouldn't
want to be near it in a small boat!

We saw a performance by 7 women known as the "Split Peas", and had toutons
served at intermission with special jellies.

This is a touton with jelly, a bread like biscuit.

Further up the coast we saw these enormous ice bergs as large as a city block.

We trave the Viking Trail up the west coast of Newfoundland.

We spend a few days in Gross Mourne Nat. Pk. it is a very large park and you
need to drive around a lot to capture most of it. Gross Mourne in French means
Large Hill!

This is a view of Morris Point in Gross Mourne area.

Bonavista, NL

We visited this quaint town, Bonavista up the coast from St. Johns. It is out on
a peninsula 60 miles long. This lighthouse sits at the terminus. We saw lots of
whales in the waters off the lighthouse.

Our campground host, Cris, gave us a "Screech In".  This makes you an official
 Newfoundlander! You down a shot of Screech rum and kiss a cod fish! We all
had a great time.

We stand at the base of the John Cabot statue. He landed here in 1497 and claimed
Newfoundland for England. They really didn't care about the land, but the cod fish
which at that time were very plentyfull. In 1992 the government declared a moritorium
on cod fishing as the fish were being completely descimated due to over fishing. Thousands
of people were put out of work and retrained to do other jobs.

Just caught a whale tail heading for the deep!

The locals put on a "Newfie" supper for us. Great food!

The coastline of Newfoundland is stunning! As we travel for 19 days here most
of our trips are close to the shore.

St. Johns, NL (Newfoundland)



St. Johns is the capital of Newfoundland and Labadore Province,
a beautiful city.

Out at Quiddi-Vidi, we all went to the brewery to check it out.

St. Johns was a fishing capital of the world until the outter banks
were shut down in 1992 due to over fishing. They now depend heavly on tourism.

We pose at the most Eastren point of land before crossing the Atlantic Ocean, Cape Spear.

High atop Signal Hill, we witness a "Tatoo", a demonstration
of marching and twirling of rifles to fife and drum music.

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Heading across to Newfoundland.

We line up for the ferry crossing to Newfoundland.

Our ferry comes in.

Cars loaded in the car-go bay!

Our berth for 16 hrs.

Sue and Phil enjoy breakfast.

We start our 19 day day tour of Newfoundland.

Baddeck, NS

We visit the Alexander Graham Bell museum in Baddeck, NS

His fame was the telephone but he spent his fortune developing
a hydrofoil method to get boats here to there faster!

Mr. Bell himself!

The Cabot Trail we are just half way around Cape Brenton.

Great views up the Cabot Shore trail.

The lady staff members, (Sue and Cheryl) prepared a ladies tea.