Sunday, April 19, 2009

Into Newfoundland

The ferry arrived into Channel-Port-aux Basques at 6.30 in the morning we got off and found a Tim Horton's and got a coffee and something to eat and then drive back into the town to have a look before we started to head north to Rocky Harbour.
The road north was better than I had figured it would be except for the fact that it had started to snow, so that made it a bit more interesting, we drive for about an hour and the decided to stop and get another coffee from a petrol station, we then drove to Corner Brook, This was a lot bigger place then we thought it was going to be. We drove out the the entrants to the harbour along the capt cook trail, yes this area was where the man cut his teeth with the whole sailing thing before he ventured to New Zealand.
After driving out and back we got something to eat and then carried on towards Rocky Harbour, we headed north until deer lake where we turned back out to the coast, the area from deer harbour thought to Rocky harbour was really nice, it followed the edge of the harbour and drove around lakes until we got to the visitors centre for the Gros Morne National park, as usual the centre was closed but they had booklets so we got one of then and then headed to Norris point before going over the hill and into Rocky Harbour the the bed and breakfast we where staying in. We sorting our stuff out and then headed out to find something for dinner, we decided to try Moose burgers, very nice. we then headed back to evergreen b&b and talked to the owners for about three hours about Newfoundland and the things we might see the next day.
We headed off to bed with the hope for good weather.

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