Newfoundland/Labrador has a population of about 515,000 and St. John's population is about 107,000 so about 1/5 of the population lives in St. John's. We drove out to Signal Hill where Marconi received the first Trans-Atlantic wireless signal on December 12, 1901. We had a great view from the top of the hill of the city below but the wind was blowing really hard across the top of the hill. Our guide said there were a lot of hats blow off and down the cliff to the rocks below.
Then we went down to the wharf where some of the fishing boats were docked and he explained how the lobster and crab pots worked.
We stopped at the Lt. Governor's residence that was built in 1827 but we could only walk around the grounds and enter a small room to sign the guest register, pick up a free post card and peek through the glass doors to the parlor.
From there we went to where an old military fort at Cape Spear was located during WWII. It is also the Eastern most point in North America. The oldest standing lighthouse in Newfoundland/Labrador is also located there.
Our lunch stop (part of our tour package) was in a small fishing village at a restaurant named Chafe's Landing. Lena got a mooseburger and I got shrimp tacos. There was a mix up with the desserts. The restaurant didn't realize that desserts were to be part of our meal but the Wagonmasters showed them the order. Normally we all get the same dessert. They make all their desserts so they didn't have enough of one kind so they brought out 5 different desserts to each table of four people and we got to try all five so it worked out great.
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We got back to the campground about 3:30PM so Lena washed a load of towels and we went to a nearby Tim Horton's and finally got the Blog caught up and our photos backed up and sync'd between out iphones and ipads.
Day 52 Wednesday July 31, 2019 Today was a free day to do as we wanted with no planned activities so we went to the Johnson GEO Science Center. They have a section on the Titanic and loads of information about the rocky formation of Newfoundland/Labrador, a section on oil exploration in Newfoundland/Labrador and a section on the Manned Space Station and the Canadian contribution to it. The section on the Titanic was just about identical to the one we saw in Twiingate, except they had a few artifacts that was not in Twilingate and one of the staff gave a short talk about some of the details of the story behind the ill fated voyage.
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| Newfoundland Dog - Lena - Labrador Retriever |
We went into town and had a good pizza at Venice Pizza. Then we went back up Signal road past the GEO Center to tour the display in the Parks of Canada building while we waited for a Military Tattoo performance. All the participates were young men and women and they put on a good show.
Then we returned to the campground for awhile before returning to Tim Horton's to post the last update for the Blog in July.
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