Back to Port aux Basques

On the Road Again

It was a long day of driving as we had to catch the ferry at Port aux Basques the next morning.  Leo and Rick saw a black bear but Cathy and I were slept through it.

We stopped for lunch at the power station where the Humber River flows into Deer Lake.

 

Here we saw a black duck

And the Bird of the Day:

Ring-billed gull

South of Corner Brook we experienced the famous Wreckhouse winds, which bounced us around the road.  We were following a pickup hauling a travel trailer that was swaying dangerously around the road.

There are caution signs at either end of this dangerous portion of road and a big parking lot in the middle of nowhere for transport trucks to wait the weather out.  The sign informed us that the winds were a mere 52 km/hr when we drove through.

We returned to our first campground in Newfoundland at Cheeseman Provincial Park. Leo and I walked down to the beach again.  As usual we heard more birds than we could see.  The beach was surprisingly devoid of shorebirds though we did see 2 spotted sandpipers.  Endangered piping plover reportedly nest here, but we didn't find any.