I take it back!

Oh my goodness – this park is lovely, but the black fly gnats are TERRIBLE. I have at least a half dozen bites on my neck, some on my arms and every place they have bit me, I end up with a huge red welt that lasts for days. I still have huge bumps from the bites I got on our first day here – and have just gotten 3 or 4 more bites tonight.

We were up early this morning as we decided to drive the French Ancestors Route along the Port au Port Peninsula (round trip ~ 6 ½ hours and 400 km according to Google maps). We left the campground a little before 8 a.m., drove for an hour east on the TransCanada before getting off at at Route 461 to St. George’s.

Our drive took us along route 490 to Stephenville, where we switch over  to Route 460 to Abrahams Cove. From there, we headed north on Route 463 to Lourdes. We stopped at the Lourdes Grotto (in front of the local Roman Catholic Church).

Bolutte du Cap Park

From Lourdes we followed the coastline (who would have thought the coast ran along the top of the mountains here?) to Cape St. George. We had our picnic lunch at Bolutte du Cap Park. This was a lovely little spot with picnic tables overlooking the ocean. We kept watching a fellow tending to a fire in a brick building and wondered what he was doing.  As we were leaving the park, we saw the sign for a  “bread oven” and realized he was baking bread. Unfortunately, we did not see any whales today – and we really had hoped to as it is our last full day touring here and today we have the camera with the big zoom lens.  Oh well, those memories will have to stay ingrained in our minds.  

After leaving Cape St. George, we headed east along route 460 back to Stephenville and from there took route 490 back to the Trans Canada to Codroy Valley RV Park near Doyles.

After returning to the park, we filled our fresh water tank, dumped our holding tanks, pulled our motor home ahead in our site and hooked up our car. After dinner, we pulled in 2 of our 3 slides in anticipation of an early departure tomorrow.

We both have to say, the views here are spectacular. Around every corner and over every rise, we never know what fantastic sight we are going to see – and the rugged beauty of this province continues to impress us.