Dramatic!

First of all, John & Judy want to send a Happy Birthday greeting to their niece Mandy. The photo is the best we could do so far in terms of moose and bear sightings. However, I’m happy to report we did see caribou tonight on the seashore not far from our B&B. Seems they can be real beach animals.

Newfoundland is a breathtaking blend of mountains and the seashore. Every view more striking than another. Much of today we drove through Gros Morne Park which, believe it or not, is an outlying part of our own Appalachian Mountain Range. The park includes the Tablelands, a UNESCO World Heritage site where the continental drift exposed the deep ocean crust of the earth’s mantle. I gather the mantle is exposed in other places in the world but they’re all deep under the ocean and not accessible so this spot geologists love. (Please talk to a geologist if you want to know more. Although I couldn’t find it anywhere, I suspect the area is called Tablelands because they’re really big mountains that are flat as pancakes on the the top. That is NOT one in the photo. You’ll have to look it up.)

The people here are lovely. One of the guidebooks described the accent as “Irish meets Canadian while chewing a mouthful of cod”. We had halibut bites for lunch today and they way the waitress pronounced halibut was very different than the way we say it. I’m sure she thought our pronunciation was just as funny.

Word of the day… puppy’s parlour - to sleep on the floor in one’s clothes. “Having caught a severe cold by sleeping in puppy’s parlour for the last 3 nights, I determined to return home.”