September 4 - St. John's, NL

Odometer - 23666.8

Arose to a cooler day, and headed south back down the most easterly coast to Bulls Bay. We did a 2-hour boat tour from the bay to a group of 4 islands that make up the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. There we watched puffins nesting, flying and diving for food. Big bodies, little wings and not very graceful in the air. Went a little further out to see and saw some Minke whales (the smallest of the baleen whale family). Some were sea sick, but not us. Returned to dry land, and subsequently stopped at a recommended store where they sold bottled moose meat (homestyle), stewed rabbit and seal meat. You could also get flipper pie take-out. We did not partake. We have found grocery stores well stoked and prices comparable.

Returning to St. John's we stopped at "The Rooms" museum/art gallery, which was built in 2005, and spent about two hours. We both liked the black and white photos of the first nation's people taken in 1959. The Rooms is on a hill facing the harbor so there are spectacular views. Returning to the campsite, Pippy Park, we walked around the lake which is behind Memorial University. Tomorrow we head to the Bonavista Peninsula, the tip of which is where John Cabot first landed. We hope to see our first icebergs.