Newfoundland

Friday Sept. 4
NewFoundland
I can’t believe how fast the days slip by and how quickly they all meld into one. The last post I wrote was a week and a half ago! Hopefully I will catch up with a little bit of where we were later. We crossed over into NewFoundland on the ferry this past Tuesday. It was a five hour crossing and arrived at 7:30 PM just before dark. The scenery as you get off the ferry was starkly different. Barren rocky hills, fishing villages and very winding roads. Se a mvie called the “ Shipping News “ Extremly friendly people. They stop right in the middle of the road to let you in, or cross or for anything! They all want to say hi. They smile and look you in the eye when talking and seem genuinely interested. We are heading up the West shore through Corner Brook, to Gros Morne national Park, and then up to St Anthony, and eventually L’anse aux Meadows. Today we are about and hour short of Gros Morne. Grace is driving, I am typing and we are both listening to a CD by Poor Angus as we go. Yea life is good. Heading up the coast the land has gotten more and more mountainous. They are now covered in lush forests. Logging for the pulp industry is a big thing around here. There’s a large pulp mill in Corner Brook. Every so often you see a Hydro Electric dam, with penstocks heading to turbines to provide power out here. Fishing is still a big thing along the coast with all these small fishing boats docked in small harbors. Sometimes there’s a small processing plant. There are lots of rivers and creeks crossing under the highway.