Odometer - 24780.1
After our breakfast at the B&B, laundry and the grocery store, we went to Fisherman's Point in St. Anthony, where another lighthouse and a small iceberg were located. Andrea climbed 474 steps up to a cliff viewpoint, and spotted a second iceberg. On our way back through town, we stopped at Grenfell's museum, and across the street, viewed murals done in the rotunda of the local hospital. They were completed in 1968 and are a series of hand-done tile, depicting the Newfoundland people and landscape. Really well done, the artist was a Spanish potter.
Headed from there's to the northerly point of L'Anse aux Meadows, the UNESCO site where the Vikings landed and lived for less than a decade, where the original site is in the condition as found, while a second adjacent site has a re-built house and costumed interpreters depicting life in the site 1000 years ago. It covers a large reserve and we watched 2 bull and one cow moose feeding in the area. A French cruise ship anchored in the local bay, quite a different ship than we are used to seeing on these shores.
Following this, we checked out Pistolet Bay Provincial Park, and Ship's Cove - another iceberg in the distance. Lots of wood stacks, chopping and stacking of wood for the winter. Several roadside gardens growing potatoes and cabbage all fenced in. They're next to the road as the road crews clear the land! Pulled in for the night, and it started to rain/mist. Starting our drive back down the west coast tomorrow, where we will now stop and see the sights. The land up here is more wind-swept than elsewhere.
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