Old stuff different names and follow that ATV

Hello everyone. Anyone who read our last blog may have noticed it ended rather abruptly. Sorry about that, We have been donating blood for years, voluntarily that is. As Kelly was finishing the last blog,sitting outside the campground office, a horde of blood sucking flying objects appeared and it was very difficult to type and swat bugs at the same time. Since our last post we have traveled from Trinity East to Green's Harbour and then on to Brigus. Next door to Brigus is Cupids and they have found evidence of year round British settlements there dating back to 1610. We drove around the Peninsula through towns like Dildo, Hearts Delight, Hearts Desire, Hearts Content, New Perlican and then 40 km later Old Perlican. When we got to Old Perlican on route to Grates Cove, the northern tip of the peninsula, we zigged when we should have zagged. We ended up on a gravel road that kind of ended in Daniel's Cove. We were about to turn around when a local on an ATV said we should be able to drive through and to just follow him. So we did.

I wonder how deep it is.

Our Turn

"Kelly don't stop Now"

We made it through with only a few new scratches on the truck. 40 years ago most of our friends had 4x4's and would do this stuff all the time, I guess we are just a little slow.

When we got to Grates Cove we hiked up this half rock half boardwalk trail to a lookout over the town and surrounding area and on a sunny day it was awesome.

Green greens and Rock.......... Wow

All over the Island the use Lupine as the "Ditch Flower". It just seems to grow everywhere.

As we drove south we went through Victoria, not quite the same as home but it sure made us think of it.

I think all 45 residents helped make the sign.

Unfortunately it was late in the day when we took this photo as the rock is a deep red and then the bright green grass on top is quite breathtaking.

There is tons of the historical type stuff here, Hearts Content Cable Station where in 1866 the first trans- Atlantic cable joins Europe and North America, Harbour Grace Airfield where Amelia Earhart's 1932 Trans-Atlantic flight departed from. The airfield was built in 1927 and is the oldest surviving airfield in Canada. The list goes on and on as this was also a hot bed of action in the mid to late 1700's as the French and English fought for control of the cod fishery. All this is very interesting but right now we just need to see more Moose.

Thank-you once again for reading our blog. It does give us a warm fuzzy knowing you are travelling "with us".

Junkel