NEWFOUNDLAND 2017

SUSAN AND NORMAN
IN NEWFOUNDLAND 2017


 


...PUFFINS!




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Next, we manage to find Maxwell Morgan's River of Boats. This guy, just for fun, recreates Newfoundland scenes in miniature.



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What's not to love about these Mini scenes?



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plus panoramas by the highway



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...depicting the seal hunt on the ice.



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more of the River of Boats.



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We continue down the coast of the Avalon Peninsula's Irish Loop, to Tors Cove, for a picnic.



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Norman with the picnic goods; we see more whales here, too.



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The Cribbies, at Tors Cove



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The Cribbies



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The Ferryland Lighthouse, farther south. Still more whales are sporting about here.



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The pathway back from the lighthouse



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Next, we head back up the coastline towards St. John's. Petty Harbour.



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Norman and Susan at Petty Harbour



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Time to leave Torbay, and start heading west. Here we are at the end of the road leading down to the ocean from the eastern end of the Trans Canada Highway.



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We point our way west.



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And arrive at Bonavista




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Bonavista Harbour



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Butler Crescent, Bonavista



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Butler Crescent, Bonavista



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We head out to the village of Elliston, which has several claims to fame. First, it's the Root Cellar Capital of Newfoundland (or possibly of Canada)



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and they have puffins



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many puffins



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...puffins who nest in holes in the ground



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Puffins look rather odd when they take off to fly. Almost as if they can't....



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