The Nomads

Clarenville
Rainy

Slept in and sinfully lazy and slow all morning! Sue used the opportunity to post to the blog and Facebook.
We were anticipating 60% rain so this time I “double bagged it”!
Two sets of rain pants and I was reasonable sure that I would be pulling in to wherever tonight with dry skivvies! (Worked like a charm, but oh so hot when hiking around!)
The trip up Trinity Bay was a return engagement with bad road surface and alternating rain, fog, and sun on about a ten minute cycle. The coast really only started to show above Lethbridge. Very nice coastline, and the village of Trinity East was well worth the sidetrack.
Stopped in to the Corner Pub and Grill in Bonavista for some “fish and brewis”, a concoction of fried “hard-bread”, onions, and fish bits….interesting, but definitely won’t be my next meal…. Great desserts though, and the coffee was good.
Made the acquaintance of Harko and Amanda, displaced Aussies from “Onterrible” who have committed themselves to a three month moto tour of all of the Atlantic Provinces.
The town of Bonavista itself was less than spectacular, but the view from Bonavista Cape was pretty; and the puffins beyond the lighthouse were a treat! (thanks for the tip Harko and Amanda)
The lighthouse is a stone’s throw from where John Cabot, sailing The Matthew, first made landfall back on June 24 1497. Desolate spot for sure, must have been really hard up to get to solid ground……!

We came back towards Gander on the west coast of the Bonavista peninsula by way of Summerville and King’s Cove, through Port Blandford and on up towards Terra Nova Park. Our intention was to camp but by the time we got to the park we were in a driving rain which increased in intensity as we approached Gander so we decided to hotel it for the night in Gander.