The travel Saint must love us, because she has truly blessed us with the great fortune of seeing some incredible things and having the perfect weather for doing it! When we woke up yesterday in Witless it was so foggy you could hardly see 50 ft. Away, but the night before it cleared up enough to allow us to see the fabulous view from Elaine's B&B. Today, as we hit the road south along the coast on the Irish Loop it was so foggy we could hardly see any of the scenery. After a short drive we turned around and cut across to the Canadian Hwy and went to Bonavista instead. We got away from the fog, but it was gray and cloudy for the entire drive (5 1/2 hours), but as we came over the crest leading in to Bonavista we got blue sky's and sunshine! We went straight out to the light house at the very end of the peninsula where John Cabot landed in 1497. Gorgeous lighthouse! AND, right beyond it were about a dozen whales spouting and playing. Truly amazing sight, but very hard to catch a picture. I think I may have gotten 1 or 2, but nothing really special. AND right there behind the lighthouse on a huge rock outcropping were the Puffins! When I read about them I thought they were about the size of a penguin, but in reality they are very, very small, but so adorable with their black coats, white face and orange beak.
We couldn't find a room available in Bonavista, but two really nice young (teenagers) who were meaning the Visitor Center found us a room in the next town of Elliston. Turns out the back way in to her place was right through Dungeon Provincial Park so on the way we got to see that rock formation as well. Magnificent is all I can say.
After we checked in we did a drive around Elliston, had dinner in a new little restaurant in what use to be a church and then another drive out to a Puffin Colony there. That was really amazing because it got me a little closer to the little guys and I think I got a couple of really great pictures. Just getting to them over this huge rocky bluff made me think we had leapfrogged over to Ireland. Wait until you see the photos and you will understand exactly what I am saying. I really go crazy over the rock formations you find along the coasts here in Newfoundland. I know there is a better word than amazing, which I use over and over, but in my limited vocabulary it's the best I can come up with to tell you how awesome this place is.
It kills me not to be able to post pictures yet and now I am so far behind. I do hope when I finally get them up you will have a chance to see what we are seeing.
I forgot to mention yesterday when we were touring around Witless we saw two more moose on the side of the road. Got a couple of nice photos of those guys. They were pretty young and just as comfortable with all the cars and people with cameras shooting at them, but once they got bored they just ambled across the road and disappeared in the trees. I really don't want to run (literally) in to them while driving down the highway at 50 or 60 miles an hour, but it is excited to see them. So far they have not been as big as the ones in NH. Oh, and NO DEER here in NFL, also no snakes.
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