Because we weren’t too sure how long it would take us to get to St. John’s we figured we better start early. Up at 6:30 we were packed up and ready to go before sunrise.
Newfoundland has a beautiful rugged landscape and seeing it during sunrise makes it even more picturesque.
We drove and we drove and we drove, and we listened to Atlas Shrugged book-tape and we admired the beautiful scenery.
We stopped for gas here and there and we drove some more.
The Trans-Canada Highway, known in Newfoundland as TCH passes right through Terra Nova National Park. It came at a perfect time as the two of us were ready to get out of the car and have a stroll. We looked for a pullout or pathway, but a lot of gates were closed up. We kept our eyes peeled and finally near the end of the park we found a nice little picnic area/ Joe’s lookout that has a view of the community of Gambo—a thriving lumber town back in the day.
Walk check—lunch from the hot dog stand—check! Time to carry on…
We weren’t too far from St. John’s and it definitely took less time than we thought.
The highway was very good…a lot of edges were crumbly and had caved in slightly due to the massive storm caused by the hurricane, but the highway was no where near impassible.
We have seen army trucks around and I am sure in areas of Newfoundland they are still cleaning up.
Unlike N.S and NB autumn is only just arriving in Newfoundland. The colours are changing and they are much more diverse than what we get in Alberta.
There are soo many shades and numerous colours and they are all so beautiful.
We arrived in St. John’s, NL and checked in at our hotel.
We figured the bulk of our site-seeing would be the next two days, so we wandered down the touristy downtown of St. John’s—along the harbour and checked out places to go and see the next few days.
We also stopped in at a pub to get some grub and came across a Newfoundland delicacy –cod tongue.
I was VERY hesitant to try this one, but it was battered and deep friend, so I figured how bad could it be?!?
Verdict: It is actually quite disgusting. I talked to be Newfie friend and she informed me that A LOT of Newfoundlanders do in fact LOVE cod tongues---us Albertans I guess are just not cut out for this fish delicacy type of thingy.
Food eaten we headed back to the hotel and relaxed---We blogged, and blogged and blogged some more, and prepped for more site-seeing days ahead.
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