Sunday - August 5, 2007

Today we woke up to sunshine after a night of heavy rain and thunderstorms so we were glad to see the sun. We headed up to St. Anthony’s and it was a beautiful drive – the ocean on one side and the Long Range Mountains on the other for a long way. The road ran along the coast most of the trip and the scenery was lovely. The farther north we came the sparser the vegetation, and a lot of people have their gardens along the roadside where there is some soil. It is quite funny to be driving along and see all these little garden plots out in the middle of nowhere. We also saw a tremendous amount of cut wood piled up, as well as wood set up tepee style drying, every house has a huge woodpile so guess they need to stay ahead of the game as it would appear that woodstoves are the main source of heat. The little towns look like they can barely eke out a living along the rugged shoreline – I suspect it is a very hard life here, especially the winters! The road wasn’t as bad as we had thought it would be, it was quite dippy in spots but really good in others, at least you could see where the dips were and slow down for them as there were some beauts.

On Sunday mornings for years we have listened to Elvis’s gospel songs so this morning I tried the Elvis channel on Sirius and they were playing his gospel songs so we enjoyed them for the first part of the drive, now we know we won’t have to miss them even if we are on the road. We can’t imagine listening to the Elvis channel all day but are glad they do the Sunday morning gospel songs.

We got set up at the Triple Falls RV Park just outside of St. Anthony’s, it is a really nice park, then took a tour through the town. We were quite surprised at how large it is – there is even a Timmy’s here!!

We got home just before the rain started again, so John got the awning out so he wouldn’t get wet barbecuing – what a wussy!! When we were registering the owner checked the weather for us, and tonight there are showers but tomorrow is supposed to be warm and sunny so here’s hoping they are right. Even though we have had a fair bit of crappy weather it hasn’t been cold, there has only been one day that it felt cold and damp all day so we really can’t complain.

Surprise, our Sirius radio is still working so that is good and the owner at the park here told us of a couple of places where we should be able to get internet, so that is hopeful. We aren’t even going to try the Bell ExpressVu because of the trees and our phone is definitely not getting a signal so guess we are batting even so far!! I will try the internet tomorrow and see what happens.

Dinner is finished and it stopped raining before John started the barbecue so he was lucky, it was dry. We had bought some salmon burgers at the fishery in Rocky Harbour and had them tonight – they were delicious, we will have to try to find some more. After dinner we were going to go for a walk and again it started to rain – looking one way the sky was blue and pretty, looking the other it was very black but there was a nice rainbow. We didn’t go far before it started to really rain so we headed back. Wow, now it is raining but looking to the west there is a beautiful sunset – go figure!!!