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| First Iceberg Sighting!!! |
June 10, 2013
We awoke to a cloudy day but that quickly cleared to gorgeous 70 degree sunny day (with wind, of course, which made it not feel like 70 degrees). Our free overnight stay in Newtown worked out well and we were on our way early.
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| Musgrave Harbor |
OH, OH….today was special! As we were driving in Lumsden, I did a double take when I saw….an
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| Looking towards Musgrave Harbor |
ICEBERG…my
first gleaming white/blue berg! It was
pretty far away but magnificent. We took
pictures anyway. It is the first of the
season and we are sure to see more as we enter “iceberg alley”.
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| Dildo Run Provincial Park |
Our
drive today took us to Musgrave Harbor where we intended to stay in Banting
Memorial Park. It was closed; tourism
book said it was open. No problem we
just revamped our plans to see where life took us.
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| walking in Dildo Run Provincial Park |
We
spent a little while walking around Musgrave Harbor and on the beach there.
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| Dildo Run |
Dildo
Run Provincial Park ended up being our destination for today. A call to the Brimstone Rv Park in Fogo
yielded nothing so we decided a night in Dildo Run would be good to dump tanks
anyway. $15 got us warm showers, a dump
station, and a choice of campsites that had great views of the bay…not bad for
a drive in with no reservations. Each
site is bordered by evergreen trees.
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| Dildo Run |
We
now get it that the Provincial Park waters must be boiled to be used for
drinking so our tanks won’t be filled there.
We can use it for toilet water only.
We learned that Foodland here has potable (drinking) water that we can purchase
so we will do that. Our other options
would be to go to any other private campground and buy some there.
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| unique rock |
There
was one walking trail in the park so we went off to walk that. We started on the trail and dropped down to
the beach and walked that for a while.
As the tide began to come up we realized we needed to move back to the
trail—which we did. When we were almost
to the end and the turn around point, we heard loud thunder coming from the
direction of the campground. Since we
didn’t have a plastic bag for the camera (the weather was sunny when we started
not much earlier), we needed to head back to make sure camera didn’t get rained
on. We made it just in time. Hoofing it back at high speed really tired me
out……………….
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| storms coming in |
Oh,
we got the scenic sites BUT the shower room is a good ½ mile from our camper!!!
There are two loops. We are the only one on our loop; the other
loop as maybe 5 sites taken/serviced sites with probably seasonal people.
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| Rainbow after the storm |
It
is soooooooooooo quiet here...no airplane sounds even!
We find Newfoundland parks to be an excellent value especially if you buy the $20 park pass which gets you in for the season.
We find Newfoundland parks to be an excellent value especially if you buy the $20 park pass which gets you in for the season.
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| View from our Campsite |
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