Day 31 Barbour Living Heritage Village

Today was a driving day leaving Twillingate. Fairly good roads and we made it to Newtown where we visited the Barbour Living Heritage Village. This was a set of original buildings form the late 1800 where the Barbour family lived. Nearly all of the artifacts in the building are the original belongings of the family. Newtown is considered the Venice of Newfoundland because of all the small waterways (they call them trickles) that are throughout the town. The Barbour family had 11 children.

The school house. 

The main house (was acturally a double) for two brothers.

The kitchen

Notice the bead in the background. This was for the husband when he came in from the sea. It was the warmest place in the house.

First to have running water in the area.

The wallpaper is original.

Sewing Room

Dinning room table only used on special occasions

Stairway for each half of the double.

Parlor

From here it was off to Terra Nova National Park where we got a lovely campsite.

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Day 30 Bridgeport Iceberg

We had heard about this iceberg that was close to shore in Bridgeport. A half hour drive and this is what we see.

I took the opportunity to get the drone out and take some pictures over the water. Still not brave enough to let it get our of sight.

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Day 29 Twillingate Dinner Theatre

First stop was the wooden boat building museum. It had just opened 2 weeks ago. The boat builder Troy provide a good description of the process and demonstrated some of the techniques. They were not in full function as they were waiting for a number of items to be delivered.

After that it was a search for a propane detector with no success.

The after noon we drove out to French beach. I should mention the yesterday and today are the hottest have seen on the trip. People here were complaining because they say it never gets that hot here 80+. At the beach a group of kids were swimming. They said it was a little cold by once you became numb all was good. I think we will pass. An iceberg had just drifted into this vantage point around noon today. We may come back here tomorrow to hike to a high point.

Auk Island Winery tour was next on the list. They only make berry wines and no grapes. Some of the products are made with iceberg water. There is a company which goes out and gathers ice, which is then melted and use to make wine. Of course part of the tour was to taste all of their 19 different wines. I think we missed a couple however. Here is a list of their wines:

50 Shades of Bay (Blueberry/Crowberry)

3 Sheets to the Wind (Rhubarb)

Root Cellar (Strawberry/ Rhubarb(

Buccaneer (Crowberry)

3 Sheets to the Wind Red (Blueberry /Crowberry)

12 Gauge (Blend of 12 Berries and Fruits)

Wreckhouse (Partridgeberry Apple)

Mummers' Wine (Cranberry Blueberry)

Jellybean Row (Strawberry Partridgeberry)

Funky Puffin (Blueberry Rhubarb)

Krooked Cod (Blueberry Raspberry)

Moose Joose (Blueberry Partridgeberry)

Blu (Blueberry)

Iceberg Bake Apple

Ol'Blue (house blend)

Iceberg Blueberry

Iceberg Raspberry 

Iceberg Cranberry Blueberry 

Outport (Raspberry Screech)

Tonight we had tickets to the Twillingate Dinner Theatre. Sue and I both had Cod which was good but not outstanding. The entertainment was good but not as warm as the Split Peas last night. This might have something to do with these people doing this show 6 days a week. The Peas only perform on Tuesday and Thursday.

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Day 28 Split Peas

Today was a short drive to Twillingate. The road was a little rough so it was slow going. Developed a new problem. The bathroom mirror had the screws pulling out but had not fallen. Some glue and toothpicks and we are back in business. We also seem to have propane leak out of the left bottle. I guess shutting it off and only using the right is the answer for now. We will have to find an RV dealer sometime and get a leak detector. We tried the soapy water with no success. 

After setting up at Payton RV. Park, we were off to pickup our tickets for the Split Peas performance tonight. This is a group of 7 retired ladies. They had come highly recommend by a number of people. We were not disappointed. They put on an awesome show.

Small portion of the performance 

The afternoon was spent at Long Point Lighthouse. We could count 12 icebergs in the very long distance from shore.

Long Point light house

Four of the twelve Icebergs we could see from here

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Day 27 St Barbe to Grand Falls-Windsor

Today entry will be short and no photos. We had a very plesant return trip on the Viking Trail and then up the TCH (Trans Canada Highway). Staying at the Sanger Memorial RV Park. Definitely a recommended overnight stop. This is the first real city since Corner Brook. They have two real food stores, plus a Walmart. The campground was nearly full as we found our the city is shutdown because today (Monday) is a holiday and all the stores are close. This is also the reason the campground is full. In the morning we will stock up on food for the next couple of weeks. Breakfast at MCD is in order in the morning.

Day 26 Red Bay

I like bed & breakfast places to stay. Peggy Hancock provided a very comfortable room and then a great breakfast. If every in the area you must give this a stay. Before we left i had to get the drone out an shoot a short clip showing the area all around Peggy's place. It is just beautiful.

At Red bay there is a Basque Whaling Museum that was the target for our day's drive. We were introduced to how the whaling was done. I always thought the harpooned the whale and hung on until it died. The harpoon had floats attached and they added more harpoons they would create drag and ware the whale out until it died. The would then tow these 60 ton animals to shore where they would be harvested. Whale oil was the liquid gold of the time, but the use all parts. The oil was sent back to Europe for the sponsors of the exposition. Rendering whale oil is much the same as we would do on the farm for lard.

Bones of a whale flipper

The day then turned sour on us. We had intended to go back and watch the whales until ferry time. However it was so foggy that we had to give that up and just wait for the ferry. Good news Sue had no problems this time. No white caps either.

You will notice in the photos a couple of time lapse videos of the drive.

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Day 25 Ferry to Labardor

We were up early this morning. The goal was to make the short drive to St Barbe and make an earlier ferry than our scheduled 6:00 pm. Sure enough we made it and got on the 1:00 pm boat. The wind were blowing pretty good but it was hard guess at what our crossing would be like. It turned out that the boat was rocking. Sue managed to hold it together but was not feeling very good when we landed.
The first pictures are from St Barbe. When you see the iceberg we are coming into Quebec, just 4 km from Labrador. I got to talking to the gift shop clerk about what to see while we are here. Her instructions were to go to the lighthouse first. The lighthouse is the tallest in all of Canada, The walls are 6 feet thick and the foundation is some 30 feet deep. I believe it is 134 feet tall. Great views from the top.

Depth of this window well is 6 feet

Looking down the stair well

Kitchen

office

We did see a couple  of whales while at the light house. Following the clerks suggestion we drove back in to Quebec to a beach where the whales were feeding. I have no idea how many there were but sometimes you could see 3 spouts at a time. What great fun we had.

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Next stop was to have a late dinner at the suggested restaurant, another Anchor. I think the name is very popular here. Meal was great.

Last stop was at Grenfell Louie A. Hall Bed and Breakfast. This is an old nursing station in Forteau. We were met by Peggy Hancock and shown to our lovely room.

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