Kelsie's Inn - B & B Twillingate

... this blog the "Lighthouse tour". I make sure I see and photograph all the lighthouses that I can.

I tour around that area for a while and take more pictures. Have supper and drive back to Gander. If it would have been earlier in the year I probably would have seen an iceberg as the town is right along "iceberg alley". The icebergs have all melted by now. So none to see.

A 4 hour drive for a couple hours of touring (and that includes a supper stop). The jury is ...

... a little plastic surgery may be required. And fortunately, we bounced away from the big rocks before they had a chance to puncture the propane tank (which happened to be lit at the time for the refrigerator).

And now on to Newfoundland. One of the first attractions of this province is the incredibly friendly people. For those of you unfamiliar with this easternmost province of Canada, the people are very welcoming but many of them talk with a strong ...

June 17 - On my second day here I decided to drive 1 hour North of the Trans Canada from Grand Falls to the coast. I was in search of icebergs which are abundant in this area. It was sunny all the way until a town called Botwood and then I got my first taste of Newfoundland FOG ...

Today I went on an almost 4 hour hike on the East Coast Trail with the women from my department and other fellow grad students. It was beautiful is so many ways, and I am convinced that once I am able to take my mother on this hike....she will move here.

... the slow trip to Terra Nova tomorrow. Tidbits: - Words to "I's The B'y" at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I's_The_B' y - The fishing embargo has decimated many of the small coastal towns in Newfoundland; for example, Fogo Island had 6500 residents in the 1970's but only 2,800 now --- many a cheap cottage by the sea is available. - Twillingate and Fogo are island and town names. - Instead of me being homeless, perhaps I am the ...

These photos are of the view from my apartment....but I have never seen the fog so thick. I decided to paint this morning to fill time. There is also a photo of Gypsy....who I am guessing could not find the way home thanks to the fog. There are two photos of the saxophone section from the Jazz Collective I loved singing with saxophone and there was a lot of blues coming out of me because of it. Monday was an awesome night. I really enjoyed it.

These are pictures from the Folk Festival in Bannerman Park. A band from Saskatchewan called "Little Miss Higgins" played, and it was very nice to see them. We even sat and had a beer together. There is also a picture of some tourists trying to put ponchos on....it is quite funny.

... ignore campers* I'd been standing there, 15m away from them at most, for a good five minutes, probably, when I dashed back to our site to get the camera and G, who'd declined to come along, firmly believing there were no such thing as close encounters of the moose kind. Of course, as soon as we got back the moose decided they were tired of posing and headed for the trees. We followed them for a while, but it was getting too dark to see, so we went back to our campfire ...

... for any pictures. I decided to try Long Point on the western side. Long Point is actually a part of a municipal park that has a nice lighthouse and some great cliff-side trails. I noticed when I arrived that the iceberg looked different from this vantage point. Another onlooker then told me that it has just buckled and sheared in half. One large piece lay almost totally underwater while the other still had a large above water profile (just not nearly as large as before). In the ...

... etc. I had a chicken burger and it was still deep-fried. Asked if I could get a salad and was offered cold slaw. Asked if I could do without the potatoes (which come with every meal) and was given fries anyway. Anyway, it fed me up. Then I went off looking for the iceberg shop. Started off at the wrong one (two are in fierce competition) and had to go all the 'way 'round the bay to the proper one. There were five of us going out and we did see an iceberg. It was pretty bumpy and ...