Friday - August 3, 2007

Well, today was a cold, dreary, damp day, the forecast was for rain but it really only drizzled off and on so we decided to have a quiet day and hope that tomorrow will be better for doing the drive to Woody Point that we want to do, as the main reason is for the scenery and it is kind of hard to enjoy nice scenery in mist and rain.

I spent a fair bit of time getting pictures uploaded to my blog, the internet is now working here in the trailer but the strength fluctuates constantly so it was challenging to say the least trying to do the pictures.

Tonight we had a reservation at the Ocean View Motel for dinner, the fellow who took our reservation had promised a table overlooking the harbour and out to the gulf, so we had a wonderful view. The sun even poked out for a few minutes to give us a tantalizing look at the bay in the sun.

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights a group called Anchors Aweigh play at the Ocean View starting at 9:30 and we have been told by so many people how good they are that we decided to catch their Friday night show. They start selling tickets about 8:30 and we were told we should be in line by 8 to get tickets and a decent seat and boy were they right. They play in a room behind the bar and it was packed, as well as the bar area, but we got good seats in the main room. A couple, Mike & Cathy from St. Mary’s, sat with us and we enjoyed their company, they were celebrating their 22nd wedding anniversary.

The group was absolutely fabulous and they played from 9:30 to 1:15 with a 15 minute break and the tickets to get in were $10 each, what a deal!! The lead singer and front man was Wayne Parsons, the fellow who had done the commentary on our Bonne Bay boat yesterday, and he is really good, he had the audience laughing, clapping and joining right in. The accordion player, who also was working on the Bonne Bay boat tour, was absolutely hilarious as he had such wonderful facial expressions and did little jigs etc., all in all a really fun evening.

One of the things Wayne did was go around the room and ask where everyone was from, it was interesting how many were there from Ontario plus people from such places as Quebec, Manitoba, Powell River, B. C., Alaska, Kansas, Montana, California, England, and of course there were a lot of locals. It was a really fun evening and we were glad we had decided to go.

We got home about 1:30 and they had a gate across the park entrance so we had to leave the truck out front and walk in, no big deal.