Category: History

Thursday, June 25th, Day 28 of our trip and the 21st day in Newfoundland, was another day of exploring Bonavista. The weather was wild when we went to bed out at Cape Bonavista, and it got wilder. my day began with this post and photo on Facebook: “05:00 –...

After touring the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse the morning of Wednesday, June 24th, we drove into the community of Bonavista and spent the day engrossed in its five centuries of European history and thousands more years of other cultures. The day had begun with a misty rain and 8°C, and...

Wednesday, June 24th, Day 27 of our trip and the 20th day in Newfoundland, was a full day of exploring Bonavista, and we began at the lighthouse. We had parked for the night at the Landfall Municipal Park a few hundred meters away. I began the day, though, with...

On Tuesday, June 23rd, we started the day in Elliston (covered in the last post), then moved on to Bonavista, which was planned to be a two-night stay but became three nights. We arrived at Bonavista at about 11:00, did a loop around town, then went to the Visitor...

Thursday, June 18th, Day 21 of our trip and the 14th day in Newfoundland, was so amazing it’s taking me two posts to tell you about it. This first one is about a hike, the next will be about our spectacular iceberg boat tour. After a good experience with...

The weather was ugly at Twillingate on Wednesday, June 17th – Day 20 of our trip and the 13th day in Newfoundland. We visited the nearby Long Point Lighthouse and Twillingate Lighthouse Heritage Museum, and that was pretty much it for the day. We couldn’t get near the Twillingate...

Sunday, June 14, Day 17 of our trip and the 10th day in Newfoundland, was intended to be a partial day to explore Port au Choix before moving on, but we very soon decided to stay another night. As I write this, it’s our favourite community so far. My...

Saturday, June 13, Day 16 of our trip and the 9th day in Newfoundland, was intended to be a full day at St. Anthony with another overnight stay there, but turned out to be a partial day then we drove south to Port au Choix to get better weather....

On Friday, June 12th, Day 15 of the trip, the weather was dramatically better! Our planned destination, St. Anthony, was only 35 km away so we had time to do more exploring at the northern tip of the island. I really wanted to return to L’Anse aux Meadows to...

Friday, June 5th, Day 8 of the trip, was our first day of exploring Newfoundland, and it was a beauty, with a fine example of what passion can accomplish with a ruined stone building, and a walk to a nice waterfall. We also picked up a rented Starlink Mini...