Saturday, cold, foggy, breezy, Fishing Point Municipal Park, St. Anthony’s, NL
Woke up to fog thick as pea soup and the fog horn still blowing every minute.
By 9:30 it had mostly cleared enough to see the harbor and village below.
Had breakfast and used the Emporium’s WiFi to catch up on some things then went over there to use their facilities and buy the Labradorite ring Janice had seen the day before yesterday.
For lunch we went to Leifsburdir,a replica Viking sod hut near the lighthouse, for pea soup with a huge dumpling and rhubarb crumble. Cost for that was a bit high at $16.50 CAD each but it was interesting being inside and not having to pay for a whole Viking feast.
Went back to our coach and sat waiting for the fog to lift and for the time to come to go to the lobster boil dinner we had signed up for at the Daily Catch restaurant in St. Lunaire-Griquet. We left a little early and the fog was still pretty thick in St. Anthony but thinned out in the countryside and then thicker again as a approached St. Lunaire-Griquet.
Newfoundlanders have many “interpretive” sites and monuments. Whether it’s part of their education of the youth, tourism, or just a cultural response to the amount of loss that Newfoundlanders have experienced, it makes traveling in Newfoundland very interesting. We’ve already mentioned in other posts ones to James Cook and to the expulsion of the French by the British. One of those monuments in St. Anthony is an airplane: a water bomber for fighting fires.
This one not only memorializes the activity, but it honors two specific flyers who died in service and all flyers who served.
Found a parking spot that would also double as a boondocking spot in the parking lot of a long-closed school near the restaurant. Went into the Daily Catch and sat at a table near another couple, John and June, with whom we soon got talking. They live in the white mountains of New Hampshire and had been to Newfoundland 20 years ago and were seeing some differences in the tourist industry that was just getting started back then.
The meal was good. Started out with a partridge berry vodka martini with berg ice, then toutons with scrunchions and molasses, Caesar salad, then a whole lobster with butter, mashed potatoes, carrots, and grilled yellow and red peppers. The lobster was almost chilly which made it easier to work on but not as tasty as when it is warm. The cocktail was delicious. For dessert we had ice cream and partridge berry crumble. We were stuffed but happy.
Still quite foggy when we left the restaurant and headed back to the van for the night.