The Harbour Quarters Inn
Travel Blogs from Bonavista
Trip to Bonavista and sunset
June 26 - Left St. John's at about 10am bound for Bonavista. After some minor technical difficulties and reconfiguring the GPS we were on our way. Stopped for a quick snack - good balony and cheese sandwich for Terry and back bacon and cheese for Peggy at Brien's Pond, a lake really, but they call it a pond. Lots of ponds and everyone has a …
Lighthouse and Puffins
June 27th
We started the day by having breakfast in our room. Next we drove to Cape Bonavista, just a short drive down the road. There was a picnic area with a pavilion with sheltered picnic area and an area for children to pretend they were sailing on the “Matthew”. The Matthew is a ship that Captain John Cabot sailed …
Scary Dry Camping
... headache – the continuous search for Internet. This will, I’m sure, get old very quickly. What am I saying? It’s already old!
Our camping tonight was what you call 'dry camping’. That basically means that we don’t hook up to electrical, sewage or water. We don’t even put the slide out. The bus can manage six days of dry camping – and ...
Airplane Crash Site and Disused Quarry
... moss and the trees were of a nature that I thoroughly expected to see the Hobbit meander across our path.
We eventually emerged from the trees onto a mixture of rocky terrain with a superficial covering of soggy peat in splotchy areas, dotted with the odd hardy, stunted tree. Off to my right, I was shocked to discover a large mangled mass of aluminum, the original shape of which was impossible to determine. A few feet further along, another mass ...
Puffins & The Screech!
... Needless to say it was one of the most amazing things either of us have ever seen. They were SO close! Brian was especially excited because his grandmother had always wanted to photograph puffins and he was living out her dream. (Thanks Aunt Gaye...our binoculars are still working out great!)
Finally tearing ourselves away from the little fellows, we continued on towards Bonavista and headed directly to ...