Day 5, June 18
0650 wake up
0705 pack 0710 check out
0712 breakfast: eggs, sausage, toast, OJ
0740 decide it's too rainy for drive up coast
0741 un-check out
0742 return to cottage
write post cards, look for yours ;-p
0840 head to ferry terminal to verify time of boat (time zone of boat
to be more precise as we know it's at 1030)
0841 ICEBERG DEAD AHEAD!!! 0850 check in at ferry terminal
All times NFLD, that means the sooner 1030 not the Quebec one
even though we're in Quebec.
0855 drive around, notice the desolation 0903 spot ferry 0914 another iceberg 0920 drive onto ferry
grab best seats, top, center, indoors
0937 pass iceberg 1003 check out our seats 1130 lunch: hot dog, fries, OJ
1200 land back in Newfoundland, head for St Anthony
1249 MOOSE 1330 see sign: Triple
Rose
B&B 20 KM
1340 see another moose
1345 see sign: Triple Rose B&B 6KM
1349 at about where Triple Rose should be a camper is parked in travel
lane.
crawl past camper, driveway becomes visible: Triple Rose
Pull into Triple Rose: TWO MOOSE standing in yard 1350 check in - rooms are nice
MISSED
OPPORTUNITY DEPARTMENT #1
When I asked if the B&B had any available rooms, the proprietress
asked:
"Are you Becket?"
I said, "No."
I should have said, "No, but
I've seen where he was murdered!"
1355 head for L'Anse
aux Meadows
1404 Moose 1413 Iceberg 1436 Moose 1439 Dad takes to the snow at
L'Anse aux
Meadows Park 1455 see viking remnants 1457 see recreated Viking hut
+
+ 1525 leave, last moose is where
we left her 1546 another iceberg 1551 amusing spot with its own website 1700 Dinner at Triple Rose: Pot
Roast, mashed, dressing, roll, veg
