Friday, 27 June 2025

St. John’s

End of the tour is in St. John’s 



We go for a tour of St. John’s 



These fishermen are loading up their crab traps to take out.



As we drive along we see these doors in the hillside.  These opened to spaces in the rock where munitions were stored.



Where Terry Fox started his run across Canada





Signal Hill









Granite cliffs of the Avalon Peninsula



Panorama shot of the harbour from Signal Hill



Basilica of St. John the Baptist



Jelly Bean row.  Colourful houses in the Victorian architecture



Our entertainment for our farewell dinner.



Our boat tour of the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve.



The island ahead which is inhabited by hundreds of puffins.



We see whales and dolphins 



And puffins



Jim and Marlene with a puffin stuffy.



The most easterly point in North America.





WWII bunkers



Lighthouse in the mist.





I am really going to miss fantastic seafood chowder.



The Rooms is a museum at the top of the hill in St. John’s.  Excellent!



Amazing displays.  This is a carving done on a whale breastbone 



We check out this club at the JID Hotel.  This is on the eighth floor and it’s amazing.  It wasn’t open when we went however the owner was there and allowed us to look around.



It’s so beautiful.  And that’s a wrap.  We head to the airport tomorrow, homeward bound.






Brigus

Such a beautiful town.



The Convent…now houses an excellent coffee shop where we stopped for cappuccino 





Hawthorne Cottage where Captain Bob Bartlett lived with his mother when he wasn’t off on an expedition.  He went on more than 20 Artic voyages in the 20th century. 







The tunnel that Bob Bartlett blasted through to make it easier to reach the water on the other side rather than going around. Seems like that’s how he approached his explorations in the Arctic with blasting through ice flows.





Beautiful homes.  So well kept.






Trinity



















Since people didn’t have basements they built root cellars to store food through the winter.







I saw a plane here which was identical to one that my grandfather used.