Day 49 Saturday August 10th a
very blustery day
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| On whale watching boat |
The weather for Aug 10th was
better than forecasted with it being overcast but no rain. It is however a very blustery day as Winnie
the Pooh would say. We again have a full
day scheduled and get going fairly early.
Dawson goes for a 30 minute run around the harbour his 2nd of
the trip to Newfoundland.
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| Bad hair or what??? |
As a group we are out of the B&B by
9:15 as we have a 9:30 whale watching boat tour scheduled. The boat tour leaves from a dock about 100
meters from our accommodations so we make it with time to spare. This is the oldest boat tour in operation in
Twillingate having started up 28 years ago.
The main attractions are whales and icebergs. We are too late in the season for icebergs
but hope to see some whales. At the boat
we are met by the captain, Cecile, who is a retired gym teacher from the local
school along with Bob another guest.
After a brief safety demonstration we are on our way. The trip is scheduled for 2 hours, unfortunately
the wind has built ups some small waves, known locally as lope, which hinders
the whale spotting. After about 15 mins
we do spot our 1st whale a Minki, however due to the lope we can’t
keep it in sight, Kevin and Dawson did however get a sighting. We motor around for another 20 mins and Julie
spots another Minki and that is it for our whale watching. We do see some interesting bird life and some
great views of the coast. We are back at
the dock for 11:30.
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| Fighting the wind on the hike |
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| Trail followed the coastline |
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| Berries on hike to be identified still |
After a quick lunch Kevin, Julie and Dawson
head off to do a hike and Roma stays to catch up on the Roger’s Cup and look around
Twillingate. The hike that we do is
about 8 kms and starts in the community of Crows Head and ends at the Crows
Head Light house. It features some beautiful
walks along the sea cliff and goes past an old mine site. The wind has steadily picked up since morning
and is blowing around 25 knots, a wee bit of a gale. At one point we cross a small valley and the
wind is funneled across it allowing Kevin and Julie to lay back into the
wind. At this point we have all taken
off our hats as we all have had them blown off our heads. There is not much left at the mine site some
old machinery and some concrete foots.
After 3 hours of hiking we arrive at the light house.
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| Top o the lighthouse tower |
The light house is very cool in itself but
also has a very good display on the sinking of the Titanic. It delves not only into the basic cause of
the sinking but the root cause. The root
cause is greed on the part of JP Morgan.
The woman at the entrance booth up sold me but giving me a deal on
entrance tickets to the Light house tower (an extra $2 each) and it proves to
be the highlight. The tower is 80 feet
high, originally made of brick and then covered in concrete due to earthquake
damage in 1926. The spiral staircase is
excellent and views at the top extraordinary.
We head back to pick up Roma and are off to
a dinner theater show. The show has
been going for over 20 years and is done by locals. They cook, serve and provide the
entertainment. The meal is excellent and
the building has a mural of the mine as it was in operation which is kind of
neat to look at. The show is good. Sort of high school skits with song sprinkled
in it. It is good for a laugh.
We are off to bed directly after the show.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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| Kevin at the start of the hike |
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