Days In Our Lives: June 2009

Day 13 - 1st Day in St. John's

Campsite at Pippy Park

Bob at the start of the famed George Street

A pub on George Street

Some real Newfoundland music

Day 12 - NFLD - Kona Beach to Terra Nova National Park (Newman Sound)

Exploits River - Former Abitibi Mill

Interpretive centre in Grand Falls-Windsor

Atlantic Salmon using the fish ladder

Atlantic Salmon in resting pool

Base of the Fish Ladder and beyond, the Exploits River

Salmon fishermen below the dam on the Exploits River

Beautiful campsite at Terra Nova (Newman Sound)

Day 11 - Second Day in NFLD - Codroy to South Brook (Kona Beach RV)

One of the many salmon streams

Deer Lake

Marble Mountain

Campsite at Kona Beach RV Park

Beach at Kona Beach RV

Day 10 - First Day on the 'Rock'

North Sydney Harbour

Joey Smallwood ferry

Waiting to Load...Ferry 1 1/2 hours late in leaving the dock...for no good reason...calm waters, no wind but did become very foggy on the crossing...No pictures while crossing - it was too foggy! Thicker than pea soup!

Visitor Centre

Table Mountain

Twin Peaks

Our campsite at Grand Codroy RV

View of the Codroy River from our Campsite

Another View of the Codroy River Behind our Campsite

Just some sights along the way....

Old Bank Museum at Riverside-Albert, NB

One of the many murals of Amherst, NS - this one dedicated to the contribution made by women to the community. Did you know that Amherst is the geographical midpoint of the Atlantic provinces?

Seashore in front of Christy Carlyle's cottage (Pauline's friend) near Pictou, NS

Notice the overcast skies as we cross to Cape Breton Island...

Baddeck Harbor

Alexander Graham Bell Museum

View from the Bell Museum

Bridal Veil at the Bell Museum

Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundy, NS

Ocean tides have carved the Flower Pot Rocks, pillars of sandstone and conglomerate rock with balsam fir and dwarf spruce growing on top. We walked on the ocean beach below the rocks. This area is open from 3 hours before low tide until 3 hours after low tide. At high tide, the rocks resemble islands.

Tides the height of a four-storey building are not unheard of. It is almost unbelievable. But apparently the Bay of Fundy acts like a bathtub and that is why the tides reach such heights.