The south shore

Oh I am so sorry, I had to many pictures to show you today, I took 115 so you can imagine my dilema.

We had an awesome day, we woke up to sunny skies, so decided to head to the South Shore east of Port aux Basque. However by the time we got there we had found the fog bank, but it was not to bad and tried to lift most of the day but never quite succeeded.

First stop were the two towns of Margaree and Fox Roost, which are so close together you do not know when you leave one and reach the other.

I have been on the look out for Newfoundlands national flower, the Pitcher Plant, and I found it going into Margaree. It grows(so I have found out) in very marsy areas, so first thing out I was wet and dirty, next time I will have to wear my gumboots.

Margaree was typical with houses of all sorts of colors, they had the Misery Island Livyers Station Museum. I found out Livyer means where they made their living and it is called Misery Island because it is usually Miserable Weather there.

The cloths line was at the museum but it looked so typical.

Then to Fox Roost, everything is built in little pockets around many harbours.

From here we went on to Burnt Island for a visit to the Hook and Line Interpretation Center, which turned out to be just another little museum but had some interesting items. Two little boys were fishing out front and we asked how they were making out and they said they couple of those things, on the table were two little short fat fish, they(the boys )were so cute.

Everything seems to be weathered pretty bad with no sign of renovations.



On to Rose Blanche, we had been told to go to the Friendly fisherman for lunch but be hungry, Ron had the seafood Plate, oh so much food. Larry had the fish and chips and the fish was a good inch and a half thick, the best I can remember tasting.

A little tour around the town before we head out to the lighthouse.

The fog was starting to roll back in but we did pretty good at the lighthouse.

The shoreline was rough and spectacular.

Here is Ron coming out of the lighthouse, it is all fixed up inside, great to see.

So back in the truck to the next village about 2 km down the road we find Harbour le Cou.

Then a couple more kms got us to Diamond Cove.

When Ron and I were here in 1999 we walked on a brand new trail to this waterfall and it now has a sign Closed Use at your own use, we did but it is rotten and falling apart, such a shame.

So the last thing I really wanted to do was to go to Isle aux Morts and walk on the Harvey Trail. It is quite a walk with signs all along the way telling the tale of the sinking of the ship the Dispatch, full of 200 Irish immigrants and how George Harvey, his daughter Ann and his son Tom saved most of the people. It was a wonderful walk but I think I may have pushed my luck with our partners, they will be thinking twice when I say I have a walk lined up, I think it was just over 4 km




Here are just a couple shots of the scenery.

We kinda took a different route home but that was okay, I got some good shots by some locals homes.

It was an impressive day, but I think we will take it a little easier tomorrow.