Last night's B and B was great. Elise is a single lady and has 5 rooms in this house. She lives down stairs in a suite. She also has a 3 bedroom house and two cabins that she rents like an Inn, meaning no breakfast. She was very accommodating and said we could have Tea, coffee and some cookies she baked for us.
After leaving Port Blandford we travelled up the Bonavista Peninsula right to the Light House at Cape Bonavista. This light house is open for tourist ( at a price ) and it was very interest to see how a Light House keeper and his family functioned. I can not see this as an enviable job. Also located in the area was a statue of John Cabot and his achievements and a museum which feature the life of other "Famous" people from the area. I could stay and read about them all day but I only had 1 out of 4 votes.
We left Cape Bonavista heading for Carmanville which is were our B and B is for tonight. Our plan was and always is, to stop at any small harbor town that looks interesting. We stumbled over the town of Musgravetown and while driving around to look for something of interested we ended up on the pier where a fishing boat was tied up. The crew from the boat was off loading nets and straightening them out on the pier. As we found out later this fishing vessel was contracted to do a Crab survey for the Federal fisheries. Anyway , I suggested we "get the hell" off the wharf because they are normally out of bounds to triflers like us. Lynda insisted on asking to take a picture and of course they wanted to know where we were from. Once they found out we were Prairie folks, the first mate insisted that we get on the boat and have a look at it. The first mate was the father of the Captain and he own the boat before passing to his son. The father said he was too old to be a Captain anymore.
The Captain came to the wheel house and showed us all the latest Technology that is required to run a vessel like this, It can hold 125, 000 lbs of fish. There is two of everything such a radar, latop, GPS etc and if he is in trouble the Coast Guard can track him to within a foot. Also his wife can see him on his boat with the push of a button. It was an amazing tour of a fishing boat.
We have now whiled away the entire morning so we need to head towards our next B and B. This will take us thru Gander. We stopped in Gander for lunch and then high tailed it for Carmanville because we do not want to be looking for a B and B in the dark.
We arrived at our B and B about 6 PM. Again the lady live in the house next door with her family, however is welcomed us and was very friendly. There was one other occupant ( Harold from Ontario ) who was traveling alone since his wife died 2 years ago. He has traveled throughout Nfld and was a wealth of knowledge for us. He and I stayed up way past our bedtime as he had the Rye and I as many stories as he did.
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