Day 10 - a bay, more puffins and a peninsula

We had a slow morning, ate breakfast in the RV and braved the part of the RV life where you empty the waste. We had not been looking forward to this! We had decided not to go to the loo in the RV, but in reality that’s not just easy. So we followed Glen’s instructions and plugged into the waste (the dump). Super easy and now the RV is a little lighter.

Off we went to the Placentia Bay lookout. We had to leave the RV at the bottom of a hill as it was quite a dirt track and we hiked our way up (I say hike, it was a 15 minute up hill walk). At the top we were rewarded with 360 degree views of the bay. The view was beautiful - trees and trees and trees and also the power plant.

We trekked back down and started the long drive to Trinity Bay. Trinity Bay is a fishing village and has the most beautiful clapboard houses. It even has a theatre. We ate at the restaurant on the water called Dock Marina. The weather has started to change somewhat - more fog and getting a little colder.

The food choices here have been tricky for a vegetarian. There are only side salads as a choice. So, I’ve had to resort to being a carnivore - I had the local delicacy, which is very odd. It’s a turkey sandwich in white bread, served with chips and thick gravy poured over it. Not recommended! Andrew had fish and chips and Oliver had quesadillas and fries. There’s an odd amount of Mexican food here.

Also - the Newfoundlanders are very round. Montreal was full of slim healthy types, the Newfoundlanders are much shorter and wider. The menus may explain why.

We had a walk around the town with an ice cream.

We got back to the RV and took a longish drive to Elliston Point. This is a nesting site for puffins. Given the weather we were hopeful that the puffins would not be out at sea feeding. It did not disappoint. The wind was picking up now, but the puffins didn’t seem to mind. There were thousands of them. They are the cutest thing ever! You could get really close to some of them and they didn’t mind a bit. There was a roped area to stop the public getting too close, and everyone there respected that.

We spent an hour looking at the funny little birds through the binoculars (the ones on the cliff top) and with the naked eye (the ones in front of us). Then we found our way back to the van, cold to our bones, but so amazed at what we had seen. So lucky. We also saw a small wedding taking place on the cliff!

Our final drive took us to Foodland in the town of Bonavista. Foodland was such a cute supermarket, like in every 1980s film you’d ever seen - but this one stocked fruit and veg!!! We got some hot dogs for tea (they even did veggie ones) and some carrots (what a combo) and then headed for campsite no 4- Paradise Park. It overlooks a lake, but the mist made that just a haze. It actually looked beautiful in the fog. The shower block is huge and clean, so I had a nice hot shower and a hair wash and we settled down for dinner in the nice warm van.