Aug 25th to 27th - St. John's to Doyles

Aug 25th - Mon - St. John’s
We all went to Cape Spear National Historic Site today. It is the most easterly point of land in North America. We checked out the visitor center & gift shop and the lighthouse and walked along several trails. There is a defense battery with two 10” guns at the tip of the cape that was installed and manned during WW II. The weather was beautiful.
We returned to downtown St. John’s to visit a music shop and buy nose flutes - don’t ask, you have to see them to understand. Terry also bought a Jaws Harp which he can’t play - yet?
Next to Ches’s restaurant for lunch. This is small chain that has been around for 50 years. Wonderful fish & chips. Terry had chicken fingers that were deep fried in the same crunchy batter as the fish and were excellent. A stop at the liquor store and grocery store before heading back to the park.
We watched Terry H. give both their dogs a bath using the outside shower on their 5th wheel and then shared another dinner made mostly by Judy. I used the time when I wasn’t making dinner to put more captions on pictures and then posted another 100 pictures to the internet after dinner.

Aug 26th - Tues - to Corner Brook
We left at 8 this morning for the 8 hour drive from St. John’s to Corner Brook. We experienced all kinds of weather during the drive - overcast, foggy, rainy, overcast again, some sun and more overcast. We stopped somewhere along the way and I made a late breakfast. A stop for diesel and we discovered that it had gone down to $1.44 a liter.
I picked a campground out of the Trailer Life book that had Terry wondering where we were going as it was across a river from Corner Brook. Turned out to be OK. We drove into Corner Brook for diesel and to have a quick look at the town. It is the second largest city in Newfoundland (St. John’s is the largest) with a large pulp & paper plant. Built, like many other towns, on slopes above bays & inlets with hardly no square intersections so it can be hard to retrace your route.
Dinner, a short walk around the park and early to bed. I had a nice long chat with friends Dan & Dottie in Spokane. It is so nice to catch up once in a while. Terry called his Mom and she is continuing to improve.

Aug 27th - Wed - to Doyles
2 ½ hour drive this morning to St. Andrews which is 17 miles before Port aux Basques. We set up and when I tried to vacuum I discovered that we had no electricity. Terry tracked down the owner and she reset our breaker. But it was on a GFI breaker and each time we plugged in (with our 50 amp to 30 amp connector) we tripped the breaker. The owner said we could move to a spot beside the breaker panel and she could connect us to 110 without a GFI but we figured if we were going to pack up to move that we would go 5 miles back to the park where we stayed when we arrived in Newfoundland. I just love packing up and setting up twice in one day!!
We had a quick lunch and then went to see Rose Blanche lighthouse. It is 26 miles on the other side of Port aux Basques so it was a 48 mile drive each way. The countryside was different from any that we had seen on the island - a lot of small hills without trees, just grass and boulders. Also lots of small lakes that looked black rather than blue. It was very pretty.
The town of Rose Blanche is lovely - set on hillsides around small coves. The lighthouse is made of stone. It has been rebuilt after being destroyed except for the central stone spiral staircase. It is a nice walk out to the lighthouse and the return trip is via a second path that includes a viewpoint over the town.
The campground where we are staying has only a couple of other rigs. When we were here earlier it was probably ¾ full. We washed both the 5th wheel and the truck when we returned. It is finally sunny and not windy so we sat out and ate dinner outside. Updated the blog and we are going up to the office to post it.