We started our day by driving down a dirt road to a beach and informal park. We took the trail to the Hidden Falls.
These falls are really well hidden. We couldn't see them. I guess August is not the time to visit. Allan and I saw pictures on the web and the water was pouring down from the top.
Another pebble beach with rocks of many colors.
There are cliffs everywhere and the views are out of this world. While we were here we saw a Minke whale swim past.
This was the extraordinary view from the one-holer!
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This is a picture of our Garmin as we drove down a dirt road on a spit of land to look for fossils. It gave me a chuckle. No road and just a little land between the blue water...
We came upon a small seasonal fishing village and these limestone ledges.
There is our Toy Taco perched atop the limestone.
I found some stones with fossils in them that I will be bringing home. The pictures above are of fossils in the ledges.
This little outpost was not on our map but apparently we arrived at Blue Beach.
The mountains are everywhere even out here on Cape St. George.
This area of Newfoundland was settled by French fishermen about 500 years ago. This is a one quarter scale traditional French community oven.
As a welcome to visitors, bread is prepared and provided free of charge daily in the summer except on Sundays. The bread is ready to eat beginning at noon.
The Mildhogs were delighted that there was still hot bread available when we arrived at 1:30. It is served with margarine and homemade jam or molasses. It was a culinary highlight of the trip for most.
This house typifies many of the small houses that we have seen in the rural areas of Newfoundland. Many of them seem to be split-level. Few of them have garages. Most of them have metal chimneys.
We have arrived at Chanel Port Aux Basque. Tonight we went downtown to hear some traditional music. We found the songs to be a bit depressing. One was about someone who committed suicide, one was about a man who shot a groom on his wedding day because he was in love with the bride and another was about a fella that came back from somewhere, maybe jail from shooting the groom, to find nobody home.
To lighten our mood after the concert we went to a beautiful sandy beach and walked along a boardwalk and watched the sun set. I left my camera at the hotel or you would have another sunset picture.
Tomorrow we will bid a fond fair well to Newfoundland, the rock. Well that is if we make it to the ferry on time...
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