After a good night's sleep in Gander at the Inn on Bennett, we were treated to an excellent breakfast- orange juice, fruit salad with yogurt, mini-quiche with ham, croissant, orange slice garnish and coffee. We got on the road about 8:15 and headed in a southeasterly direction, which meant wind in our faces for the first half of the day. With the starting temperature about 8C, we didn't bake. There were a couple of big hills just before Gambo, Joey Smallwood's birthplace. The next place of note was Glovertown, and that's where we saw another bear. This guy was much younger, smaller and skinnier than yesterday's bear; we have not yet seen a moose. Not far after Glovertown, we stopped at the entrance to Terra Nova National Park for lunch. Immediately thereafter the road turned south, which turned the headwind into a sidewind. Even with many, many hills, we made good time to Port Blandford, at which point we decided to continue to Clarenville. We arrived at the Information Centre just after 6 PM and thought that we probably just missed the open time. Fortunately they stay open until 7 PM so we got then to call the B&Bs, which were full, so they booked us into the Restland Motel which offers breakfast with their rooms. We had dinner at a restaurant in the adjacent mall. I started with their own seafood chowder, which was excellent, and finished with a double burger plate. The latter was interesting because the chips come with a savoury dressing and gravy; it was surprisingly tasty but not what you would call health food.
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