Day 48, Friday August 9th, 2013
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| View from our B&B |
We awake to another blue sky day; we have
been very lucky with the weather during our tour having only had one rainy day
so far. We take picture of our view from
the B and B which looks over Twillingate harbour. We have a full agenda again today after have
completed our recon mission yesterday.
We have a quick breakfast, get an update on the Roger’s Cup for Roma and
we are off.
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| Roma and Julie at Prime Berth (note livecam beside us) |
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| Sei whale skeleton |
First stop is out to the “Prime Berth”
which is a private museum just after the causeway on Twillingate Island. The term Prime Berth refers to the practice
of the fisherman having a lottery for the right to certain areas for setting
their nets, they all hoped to get the best spot which was the “Prime Berth”. The museum is excellent and shows what a
person with a vision and some hard work can achieve. It features a number of buildings with most
set up along/over the water. Each
building gives some different insight to life in an outport community. One building features an underwater camera so
you can see real time what is happening out in the bay. The museum also features the skeleton of a
Sei Whale. The skeleton is from a whale
which beached itself about 20 miles from the Prime Berth. The owner got permission to have the whale,
he then transported it to a deserted island to let it rot and then 2 years
later assembled the skeleton. Lots of
work but quite eye catching.
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| Jelly fish |
From the Prime Berth we head off to do a
hike up a hill aptly called “look out hill”.
The hike was ~4 kms long so Roma only did a bit of it. The trail featured 4 look outs all affording
excellent views of Twillingate Island and the surrounding waters. From here it was back to the B and B for a
lunch which was quite tasty as we finished the left over lobster.
We headed over to the village of Little
Harbour to do a hike out to a Natural Sea Arch.
Roma declined to do any of this one and stays with the van to read. We head out on another great adventure. We meet a couple on the way out who reported
they were unable to find the arch but did spot lots of poison ivy, so it is now
somewhat of a test to see how we make out.
The test is not hard, there are signs to the arch and we see no poison
ivy. The archway is neat to see. We head back to the van and find Roma fast
asleep, she figures she got a half page read.
From here we head back to the Durrell
Museum, this time knowing that we had to get through it by 5 pm. The museum is good; it is located in an old
armoury which was used by the Arm Lad Brigade up till the 60’s. It has a number of items from the ALB and
also a stuffed polar bear. The polar
bear arrived in Twillingate in 2000 on the pack ice. It was killed just off the main wharf when it
was deemed a danger to all the people showing up to look at it. A 2nd bear, possibly a sister to
the one killed was spotted further out and tranquilized and shipped back to
Labrador. From here it is off to Twillingate
North as we have tickets to a “Kitchen Party” which will take place at the
Anchor Inn. Kevin is also going to meet
us there as he will be driving up to Twillingate after work. Prior to heading over to the Anchor Inn we
take in an Art Gallery owned by Tom Stuckless a local artist who painted a
picture of an outport house move entitled “Greener Pastures” which is now well
know. He is from Twillingate and still
lives here.
We show up at the pub and meet some of the
other guest, the host ask where we are from and when we say Sudbury another
group says that is where they are from as well.
We get ready for the “do you know game”, but it is cut short when the
man says you look like a Dawson. It is
Bruce Hall with his wife and daughter.
Bruce is a mine rescue training officer in Sudbury who I had met during
my time in mine rescue; it certain is a small world.
Kevin arrives just in time for the show and
we enjoy a couple of hours of songs and stories. Near the end of the evening we are all given
the opportunity to get Screeched In.
Julie and I take a pass but Kevin signs himself and his grandmother up. Getting Screeched In consist of kissing a
stuffed puffin, reciting a newfie saying and then doing a shot of bad rum
bottled in Newfoundland know as Screech.
If you get the saying wrong you get to do another shot and try
again. Roma gets it on the first try but
it takes Kevin 4 tries, needless to say he out of being the DD.
We are back at the B and B by 11 pm and off
to bed as we have big plans for the next day.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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