June 22, 2013
Awoke
to…SUNSHINE!
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| Cape Onion area - NL |
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| enroute to Cape Onion, NL |
Lunch
again at The Daily Catch in St. Lunaire-Griquet, NL. Delicious.
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| wilburrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... |
Off
we drove from Quirpon to the next peninsula over to have a look at Cape
Onion. While we were out by Cape Onion a
gentlemen stopped us and told us that we hadn’t gone all the way out and that
the views were better out there. We
turned in his driveway (after we had a nice chat) and went back further down
the road (less than ¼ mile around a bend). WOW, nice views and glad we went the
distance. He had a grounded iceberg just
across from his house…not a particularly big one. He was looking forward to when it broke up
and he could nab some of the ice to
replenish his iceberg stock in his freezer!
He uses it for his adult beverage!
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| St. Anthony...view from our hike |
On
the way to Cape Onion we saw a moose…tried to take his picture…again, I get
moose bum. On the way back, we see the
same moose (same area). Since we saw him
way up ahead, we decided to get the camera ready and sneak up on him in the
motorhome. Moose don’t see very well and
rely on scent and hearing. Slowly we
crept with camera ready. He moved around
a bit. We sat by the side of him about
10 feet away for maybe a couple of minutes (that’s how few cars are here) and
snapped away as he munched. He really
didn’t seem to know we were there taking photos. He would munch away and when he looked up we
would snap and freeze…back to munching.
Finally, we had enough shots and began to move slowly as to not spook
him….moose bum!
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| St. Anthony - view from hike |
We
passed Pistolet Provincial Park and took a look. It appears to be a very nice park and we
would have stayed there if we needed services.
It has lots of evergreens. There
were actually about ten spaces taken on this Saturday!
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| We found the best icebergs - Goose Cove NL |
St.
Anthony was next on our list to visit.
We did several hikes out by the lighthouse/foghorn area. One hike was 476 steps up to a fine
lookout. (highly recommended) As we got to the last step I
spied a coyote quickly go over the rise.
I had seen his scat at the bottom of the hike and feathers from a
gull. While we were in St. Anthony
someone told us to go out to Goose Cove as there was an iceberg close to
shore…David practically ran to the motorhome!
Off we went south to Goose Cove. We could see the
berg as we arrived in this small village.
As we were walking down the boardwalk to the little park at the end, we
hear a CRACK. The iceberg was in the
process of calving! THEN, crash it went
into the water. The berg shifted and
worked to find its new balance point.
SOOOOO cool to see that and up close, very close.
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