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Early morning walk in Torbay, north of St. John's |
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Sandy's B and B, See the Sea. She wasn't kidding. We are put in the Egyptian Room. |
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Middle Cove Beach, Torbay. The capelins are running thick and fast. Norman chats with a local guy. |
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On to Signal Hill. We stop at the Queen's Battery, overlooking the entrance to St. John's Harbour. This was the welcome one might receive some 300 years ago. |
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This morning's welcome was pitchers of mimosas. |
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Cabot Tower, built 1897. It was here Marconi (who always had better press than Reginald Fessenden) received the first trans-Atlantic wireless signal. |
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Downtown St. John's. |
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...and the harbour. |
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a couple of students with cool summer jobs are raising the flags. (Norman showed them how to secure the ropes properly). |
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Next day, we head south to Bay Bulls Harbour, to take a whaling expedition.
Watching, I mean, not hunting.
First, however, we watch some guys splitting their cod on the pier. |
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Heading out of the harbour on the whale watching boat, we pass an oil rig (come to shore, NOT drilling 500 Km out at sea) the West Aquarius. |
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...sailing out to the whale feeding grounds... |
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Yes, there are whales. Humpbacks. It is a bumper year for whales, and we are here at just the right time. |
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They're feeding on the capelins, also in massive supply this year. |
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....gone whales.... |
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Now, we head on to the Gull Island, in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. |
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with Common Guillemots (aka Common Murres), the black and white penguiny ones
and Kittiwakes (a member of the gull family). |
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more Guillemots, and of course ... |
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