Another Iceberg

Before leaving Crescent Lake Campground, Beau and I walked around the campground and along the lake.  They had a great playground for children with a Loch Ness monster made out of tires (cut in half) and a tic-tac-toe board on a large flat rock with small rocks for the x's and o's.  Very creative.

Creative Tic-Tac-Toe Board

Oversized chair at the kid's playground

Love the "Rustic Spa" - Bathhouse and Laundry, first time I saw a campground provided line for hanging laundry!

Stayed on this peninsula to chase an iceberg northeast of us at Brighton.  On our way, we drove through Triton, a small town with the shelters that the kids use while waiting for the school bus all painted in different designs - assume it was a fundraiser of some sort, similar to what we saw years ago with painted ponies and cows in some towns.

Still seeing some of these abandoned fishing village buildings, but not as many as when we were here 7 years ago

Trash Bin

Interesting Fence

Tiny house - probably Air B&B

On to Brighton and found the iceberg, but couldn't find a good place to take a photo.  I finally stopped on the side of the road and tried to get a photo between two houses when the owner of one came out and called to me - "Are you trying to get a photo of the iceberg?"  He then proceeded to tell me all about the iceberg being in his backyard for a while and that I could just roam around his property to take as many photos as I wanted.  Newfoundlanders are known for being some of the friendlist folks on the planet!

He came back out to show me photos he had taken when he took his boat out to the iceberg - incredible.  Brighton and nearby Triton are small towns with quite a few new, large homes but no obvious employers.  I asked my new-found Newfoundlander friend (couldn't resist) "what do folks do for work here?  "Oh, they don't work, here, right? (they use "right" like other Canadians use "eh?")  "They drive down [1.5 hrs] to Deer Lake, then fly out to the Alberta Sands [oil] or the Labrador Mines and work there a few weeks, then come home for a week, right?.  Big money, right?."  So, we finally solved the mystery about all the new homes we were seeing.

Headed back south again to Route 1 and resumed our eastward travel.  Checking the map, we found a town on the northern central coast called Leading Tickles - the name called to me and so we decided to visit.  Found a municipal campground on a small spit of land that extended into the ocean.  Campground has ocean surf crashing on craggy rocks on three sides, with spectacular views.  Beau and I climbed the Bear Cove Lookout Trail - not very long, but incredibly steep.  So much so, they had a rubber mat on the boardwalk's steep incline and I still needed the railing to pull myself up!  The 360 degree views were worth the exertion.

Decided to stay another day to get our laundry done here and to enjoy the three beaches on different sides of this mini-peninsula.  This morning brough a school bus full of little kids to the adjacent playground where they had a grand time for a few hours - we suspect it might have been an end-of-year school outing.

Beau and I explored the beaches and he found a lot of crab debris and sea urchins.  The gulls were plucking them out of the water, then dropping them on the rocks to break open and eat.  Beau tried one before I could stop him, but luckily he decided he didn't like it much.  Two of the beaches were just rocks, typical here in Newfoundland, but the third was a beautiful black sand beach.  Great relaxing day.