Day 14 and 15, Tuesday and Wednesday

We left Gros Morne National Park yesterday morning.  Sad to leave; it's an incredible place.  Had to
stop at our favorite cafe in Norris Point.  Picture taking was minimal since it was foggy and raining, but I managed a few.  Twist my arm.

We drove 216 rain soaked miles drive to our campground, in the JT Cheeseman Provisional Park, just north of Port Aux Basques, where we will take the mid day ferry to Nova So cotia.  This will be a much shorter ferry ride, 6-8 hours depending on the wind and the seas.

On our way here, we stopped at Marble Mountain where Alex went snowboarding with his UVM trip, and then we had lunch in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland's second largest city.  Great sushi!

This is a paper mill, the woodpile is amazing!  Fortunately the wind was taking the smell away from us.

Despite the rain we also visited a statue of Captain James Cook, whose statue we also visited in his hometown of Whitby in North Yorkshire, two summers ago.  Cook mapped the west coast of Newfoundland for the Bristish navy in the late 1700's and apparently his accuracy was incredible.

We arrived at our campground around 6:30 PM.  Luckily, the rain stopped, the sun came out, but the winds were howling at 25+ mph so we ate inside our Eurovan.  Closed the night with a competitive game of scrabble.

Left the campground at 8:05 AM, this morning, headed for Tim Hortons, and a market where we can buy some Iceberg.

The beer purchased caused us to arrive 15 minutes later than we were supposed to for the ferry line up.  Never known Joni to be willing to be late for anything.  She really likes Iceberg, so I bought a 12 pack.  Don't know if it will last 'til we get home.

Our ferry, the Grand Puttees.  Puttees are the gaiters that soldiers in WWI wore.  The Nefoundland regiment's Puttees were blue in color, so Newfie soldiers were referred to as the Puttees.  Aren't you glad I explained that!