Sophia's restaurant provided a breakfast buffet with choices of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, cereal and fruit salad. We didn't leave there hungry.
Headed north on the Bonavista Peninsula stopping first at ELLISTON where visitor information pointed us to Puffin viewing. Walking out onto the point we found an island covered with puffins.
We bird watched for a while and headed for Elliston's lookout point. Here as we gazed at the scenery, we spotted spouts of water out in the bay. This was as much of the whales that we could see, even with our binoculars. We did however see many root cellars in Elliston. It is the 'root cellar capital of the world'.
Driving north to BONAVISTA, I counted 9 icebergs as we drove down to the bay. Dungeon Provincial Park provided views of rugged coastline, an iceberg and strangely, horses.
At the Cape Bonavista lighthouse, there was icebergs aplenty but, no whale and no puffins, despite the signs advertising this. See video below.
From scenery to history, we stopped in at the Mockbeggar (means muddy flats) Plantation. This restored home belonged to Gordon Bradley, who was instrumental in getting Newfoundland to join confederation.
The Ryan Premises Historic National Site filled the rest of our afternoon with exhibits about the history of cod fishingand about the cod fishing moratorium. By this time, the day had turned rainy and since we have tickets to the theatre we called it a day.
We bird watched for a while and headed for Elliston's lookout point. Here as we gazed at the scenery, we spotted spouts of water out in the bay. This was as much of the whales that we could see, even with our binoculars. We did however see many root cellars in Elliston. It is the 'root cellar capital of the world'.
Driving north to BONAVISTA, I counted 9 icebergs as we drove down to the bay. Dungeon Provincial Park provided views of rugged coastline, an iceberg and strangely, horses.
At the Cape Bonavista lighthouse, there was icebergs aplenty but, no whale and no puffins, despite the signs advertising this. See video below.
The Ryan Premises Historic National Site filled the rest of our afternoon with exhibits about the history of cod fishingand about the cod fishing moratorium. By this time, the day had turned rainy and since we have tickets to the theatre we called it a day.
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