Thursday - August 2, 2007

Today is my “much younger” brother’s birthday – Happy Birthday Bryan, hope it was a great one and you are enjoying your holiday on Manitoulin and having good weather.

I had lots of e-mails today, thanks everyone for writing it is always good to hear from you. This morning we went up to check our e-mail do my blog etc. and the e-mail was working great but it took me over ½ an hour to upload two pictures – very frustrating to say the least!! I will try it again tonight and see what happens.

Today was an absolutely gorgeous day, it was sunny and all the fog and mist had dissipated so we got to see the sights we have been missing the last few days – such awesome scenery. Today we had a clear view of Gros Morne Mountain and the Tablelands, which are totally stunning. We took a boat tour of Bonne Bay this afternoon and it was really great and the fellow doing the commentary was very good and quite funny. From the boat the views of the mountains were spectacular, we saw two bald eagles sitting on top of the mountains staking out their claims and a baby flying overhead. We saw two whales, probably both Minke’s, one on the way out of the harbour and the other one on the way in – quite lucky to see them. We were sitting with people from Waterloo who are originally from Newfoundland, lovely people and it was fun talking to them.

So far we have avoided Chantal, we are just watching the news and it sure played havoc nearer St. John’s but I think they are calling for rain here tomorrow – darn!!! It’s hard to believe that they had such terrible weather on the other side of the island when it has been so nice here. The ferry from Argentia has been cancelled because the road to it was washed out and the back up at Port au Basque and Sydney is incredible as they are rerouting people who were supposed to cross at Argentia. Thankfully we don’t have to worry about this and hopefully there will be no glitches when we are scheduled to cross back over from Argentia.

I just got some pictures from yesterday uploaded, now to work on today’s pictures.