After a nice breakfast of ham and eggs, fruit salad, cereal, juice and coffee, we hit the road at about 8:30. The temperature was about 15C, it was overcast and the wind was from the east. Other than the odd hill there wasn't a lot of work provided by the road; the wind made up for that and more. As the day progressed the temperature dropped a bit and the wind picked up significantly. It took us until after 5 PM to reach Gander, probably a good 2 hours longer than it would have with reasonable winds. We were told that there were moose hanging out beside the road between Badger and Grand Falls/Windsor so we kept our peeled for them. Unfortunately, all we saw were moose footprints, particularly in the mud off the road, and highway warnings about moose. Apparently there were 660 moose-vehicle incidents in the province last year. Just east of Grand Falls/Windsor they have a series of detectors on both sides of the road and warning lights start to flash if moose are detected crossing the road. The highlight of our views today came about 13 km west of Gander when a good sized black bear crossed the road just in front of us. An interesting manmade subject was a rather large pipeline (?) that crosses under the TCH east of Bishops Falls; it must have been at least 3 metres in diameter.
We checked into a B&B, Inn on Bennett, then walked up town for dinner.
HI Kanji and Susie,
ReplyDeleteSounds like you are enamoured with food and the locals on the Rock. I could send you Peter Beamish's address in Trinity Bay. They used to run the Trinity Bay Inn, or at least Peter's wife Chris did, but the last time they were in Victoria, she had had enough of it.