They know how to treat seniors here in Terre Neuf, $15.00 for Provincial campsite with electricity and only $9.00 without! Spent a night in Notre Dame Bay, then on to Majumderville, actually Burlington Newfoundland ,the home of Sean Majumder and Canadian Idol finalist Rex Goudie! Camped at Flatwater Pond, then on to Sir Richard Squires Provicial Park, the site of Big falls on the Humber River, watching the salmon jumping the Falls is well worth the walk to the river.  Stayed near Deer Lake again , now on our way to Barachois Prov. Park for a couple of nine dollar nights! Sunday the temp. changed from 91degrees to 57 in less than two hours, cool for sleeping!

St. Lawrence

Really relaxing in St. Lawrence, Trish calls it the bottom of the boot, the Burin Peninsula. Snow crab, lobster, cod, Bill &Dona say none of that Marystown fried chicken & taters, the last time I ate it in Cornerbrook at Christmas five years ago ,I had a heart attack! Bill and I consume a few cold ones each day in his man cave, we solve half the world problems in the shed, and the two grandmothers solve the rest at the kitchen table, four days now, so the world will be a better place when we leave.

All around the circle.

What a beautiful day, we drove to Twillingate, looked off at Crowhead lighthouse to faintly see a few icebergs, fish & chips at Sansome on the dock, along with Iceberg beer, brewed in St. John's!
Then we stopped to let a beaver cross the road, seemed apropriate on Canada Day.

CANADA DAY

Happy CANADA DAY, sixty- four years ago today Canada joined Newfoundland, so that they could truly say they went from sea to sea. We are here with our Newfoundland family, Jacque, Craig, Becca,Cody,and Kimmy, in Gander!  Trish and I have hereditery Newfy connections, my grandmother was from Carbonear and Trish was born in Winnipeg, BUT, conceived in Conception Bay, her mother travelled by train from Manitoba to Newf, to see her husband serving on minesweepers in Conception Bay,in 1945!                      

On Friday we headed off for the Campground Host week-end gathering, Friday evening the rain held off,and we enjoyed a great slide presentation all about the Shubanacadie Canal System,from 1830 to 1871, goods were transported from Halifax Harbour to the mouth of the Shubanacadie River into the Bay of Fundy,via the Dartmouth Lakes and Grand \Lake ,then on to Saint John,New Brunswick This all ended when the railway became the best way of moving goods. The venue for the gathering was Laurie Park on Grand Lake. The pot-luck supper was amazing,such a variety of choices, then naturally storytelling around a campfire, the ultimate camping experience. During the night, the downpour of precipitation from Tropical Storm Andrea was  amazing, In the morning we decided that BBQing and campfiring was not going to be the most enjoyable that day, so we headed out to visit friends in Dartmouth,  Brian & Cathy are always so accommodating, Homemade chicken soup was on the burner, we settled in and let it rain, and rain,and rain,and rain!

Can't believe it's been almost a year since our last blog.  The camper is ready to roll, putting it on the truck on Tuesday, then we are off to the campground host week-end in Laurie Park, Enfield, Nova Scotia! In a few weeks, we are off to Newfoundland for a few weeks, then our annual hosting assignment on the Mira River, near Louisburg (300 years old), Nova Scotia.  Please follow us and feel free to comment!

We are settled "On the Mira" in beautiful Cape Breton.  Travelled Marine Drive from Dartmouth to Antigonish, stayed at Murphy's On the Cove one night, ate breakfast at Liscomb Lodge, then headed for the causeway, we are here to "mend" as the song says! 
"Out on the Mira, on a warm afternoon, old men go fishing,with blackline & spoon,
And if they catch nothing, they never complain, I wish I was with them again."

"Can you imagine a piece of the universe, more fit for Princes & Kings?
I'll trade you ten of your cities, for Marion Bridge and the pleasures it brings!"