Had a nice breakfast still in the parking lot of Cape St. Mary's, and got on the road, curving around the end of the peninsula and back up the other side, went around the bay, and down the next peninsula to St. Vincent's Beach where whales are often seen right off shore because of very deep water. They chase the capelin (anchovy-like fish), but the capelin were not running, so there were no whales.
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| Almost every home has huge stacks of wood like these that I guess they spend the summer cutting and splitting for firewood |
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| No whales today |
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| Picturesque fishing villages |
We continued on to Portugal Cove South, site of the interpretive center for Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve where some of the world's oldest complex organism fossils have been found. They had an excellent movie about the site and fossil replicas. We could have arranged a tour to the site about 10 kilometers away with a required guide, but it is cool, very windy and requires a long walk, so we decided to pass.
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| The "barrens" of southeastern Newfoundland - arctic and tundra like plants |
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| At least these potholes had been recently repaired |
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| Jack called this the jelly bean house |
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| This stretch of gravel road was in atypically good condition. |
We rounded this southeastern-most cape and headed north to Chance Cove Provincial Park. The 5 kilometer entrance road was a gravel nightmare to the picnic area where we could park for the night and hopefully observe seals in the Cove.
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| No seals today |
No seals, and the parking lot was full of local folks using the parking lot as their personal free campground and they apparently leave their trailers there for the season and drive their trucks back and forth on weekends. We found a small space along the Park Road that we could just squeeze into and enjoyed a quiet night among the evergreens.
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