Monday, June 23

A lovely bacon and egg breakfast was enjoyed by the four of us guests and then Carl and I headed north on the peninsula to BAY DE VERDE. The view from the highway along the coast was breathtaking. At Bay de Verde we spent several hours at the Heritage Premises. Your admission covers a tour, a tea and a talk. In addition to the main house we explored a boardwalk down to the ocean passing by a root cellar and an old fish store and flake. This town has a crab and shrimp processing plant that adds a salty flavour to the air (it smells). Apparently, the crab is all shipped to Japan and the shrimp are packed and sold under the 'Northland' logo. This visit was a very pleasant way to spend a few hours on a sunny day. GRATES COVE is at the very top of the penninsula and, although pretty, the only point of interest was the historic site. There are fences of stacked rocks in the fields and lined up the hillsides. Theses were old field markers made by early settlers to mark their piece of land. HEART'S CONTENT houses the Historic Cable Station where the transatlantic cable joined Canada to Ireland so morse code messages could be sent across the ocean. In WHITEWAY we had a nice dinner at Brown's and then settled in for the night at Legge's Sunset Inn. More interesting was the iceberg that was just off the shore from here.