Wednesday, - August 8, 2007

Today was beautiful, sunny and warm. We drove back to St. Barbe, which was only a bit over 100 km and got set up at the St. Barbe RV Park, which is like a Wal Mart parking lot. We were told all the electric sites were taken (but as of 9:30 this evening there are at least two left) so we are parked in the front corner with out service. Fortunately, with the solar panels etc this is no problem for us. We had to fill up with water here as we only had a little bit on board, unfortunately there is a boil water order here so we will only use the water for washing.

After getting set up we drove back to Flower Cove and took a walk over Marjorie bridge and then a gravel walk to Lawless Cove to view the thrombolites. The thrombolites are bun-shaped boulders, but are actually fossil-like remains of algae and bacteria growth. The only other place these thrombolites have been found is in Australia. John also drove out to the dock, an extremely bumpy drive, which had a lot of rotting ships on it, very depressing!! Coming back from seeing the thrombolites we walked along the shore for a while and it reminded us of Lions Head, all flat rocks and very pretty.

We came back from Flower Cove and drove to Foster’s Cove, then on to Black Duck Cove, which was very pretty. At Black Duck Cove there is an overlook area looking out over the straight so we could look over to Labrador and also see a number of fishing boats out in Belle Straight. There was a small park there and it was really cute, there were quite a few miniature buildings, plus a playground, and we were surprised by the people there, with kids, who had come to the playground on ATV’s - certainly a different way of life! We also saw a number of black ducks so guess that is where the name comes from.

We came back to the trailer and sat outside for a bit before having dinner. Again, another beautiful day and we are hoping it will be a nice day tomorrow to go to Labrador.