Bonavista Day 3 June 21
Amazing to have a theater right next door to where you're staying. Unfortunately, their dinner theater has not yet started. They do have a movie theater as well and they're playing the new Top Gun movie. They told me that the previous night, they practically sold out, 149 tickets sold with just the first 3 rows empty. Which means to me, no covid distancing and I'm not ready for that yet.
After breakfast, we went back to where we had had the great puffin sighting. This time we shlepped our chairs. For the first half hour, they stayed on the surrounding cliffs,
but then, some of them made their way to us . Ooh, aah.
And then it wasn't foggy anymore.
We drove a little more in the area,
. (one teeny root cellar)
of a rich fish merchant, F. Gordon Bradley,who was an advocate for joining the Canadian confederation. He and Joey Smallwood schemed together, in this very house, to get Newfoundlanders to vote to join Canada.
(small heating stove because coal was used instead of wood)
And tulips are still blooming here.
There is real theater happening in Trinity, a small town, not so far but 40 minutes minimum on these roads, and too pot hole risky in the dark. I spoke to someone who had gone to the dinner theater in Twillingate, that I had backed out of, and damnit they said that it had been terrific. But they also said that someone at their table left early, because they too, were afraid to drive home in the dark.
I can't remember whether I mentioned this already, but there are more tourists on the road than natives. Obviously, easy to spot the out of province plates, but then there are the CR-Vs and SUVs and they are all J plate newfie rentals. If someone is driving a sedan or a truck, 99% certain that they are locals, with just a few exceptions.
BTW, odometer way over 6500 km.
Scheduled to leave to Grand Bank tomorrow. The idea was to go to St. Pierre and Miquelon, for a day trip, the following day. But they only just opened the ferry service on June 20, and every day the schedule is different and on that particular day, the ferry heads out at 2 pm, but doesn't return until the following morning. Sigh. Need to rework the itinerary. So the BnB wasn't going to give me any grief if I wanted to cancel one night, to stay instead, in St. Pierre, and I could have found a room, but Michael couldn't have cared less about going (think he was counting Euros) and I've already been, so we decided not to bother.
Our breakfast is complimentary at the tea room across the street. I actually found a teapot that I too, own.
Do not adjust your sets! Initially, it was foggy out.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/NtdkP4yK6cKswjc68
Can you find Waldo puffin in the next pic?
But then hunger got the best of us, and we returned to Bonavista for lunch.
Afterwards, we hit one more museum.
This was the home
Guido Nincheri ("Guido Nincheri - Wikipedia" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Nincheri), of Montreal, designed the stained glass window in the house, that celebrated the sailing of the Matthew .
The family also owned the oldest wooden building in Bonavista, that was used to salt fish. It goes back to the 1780s.
Lastly, I went for a stroll on my own. There is a 1km trail that goes around a pond, which was perfect, because by this point, after being outside for the entire day, it was about as much as I could handle.
