Friday - August 24, 2007

Wow, another gorgeous sunny day and it is warming up a bit, a perfect day.

Today we spent the day in Bonavista and toured Ryan’s Premises which is a restored fish merchant’s multi-building premises that tells the story of the fishery and sealing through exhibits and displays, - very interesting. It is just mind boggling what the cod moratorium announcement on July 1st, 1992, which immediately put 40,000 people out of work, must have been like. Videos of the seal hunt are unbelievable, it is hard to imagine how dangerous it must have been for the men out hunting seals yet it was a job to be vied for. In 1914 77 men died during a storm when out seal hunting, they couldn’t get back to the boats and froze to death out on the ice.

After that we did laundry, some domestic things just have to be done, then we stopped at the local coffee shop for a coffee and internet hook-up, so I finally got caught up on my blog and got a couple of pictures posted. After a stop at the local grocery store it was time to go home and get dinner. As I said to John – where do the days go!! The Laundromat was a good one today, they have built a gorgeous new building at the harbour and have included a laundromat and washrooms with showers for boaters, hikers and RV’ers. The machines were new and I washed and dried 2 loads for $5, a good deal.