Saturday, July 24, 2010

July 24 - Bonavista

Yesterday it rained all day so it was an indoor day in the RV playing the Wii and reading.

Today the rain stopped by 10:00 am so we headed into to the Puffin viewing site in Ellaston, the root cellar capital of the province. There were whales out in the distance playing around.

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Next stop was Dungeon Provincial Park. We are not sure what the name means.

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Looking up the coast you can se the Bonavista Light Station in the distance.

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We had lunch in the picnic area and then drove to Bonavista to first walk around the light station.

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Then we went into town to the Ryan’s Premises National Historic Site; a series of building restored to the original architecture and made into museums containing artifacts from the boom period of cod fishing in here. We got a tour of the mercantile process for registering a cod harvest and a glimpse of the life during that period.

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