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Newfoundland Excursion #2

lighthouse woody pointWe’ve been out about a week, arriving in Newfoundland by ferry at Port Aux Basques on Friday, July 13, 2007. The trip across New Brunswick and Nova Scotia was fairly nice and without incident. Found a very good ice cream place, McCabe’s in New Brunswick, a very nice town named Sackville also in NB – with an excellent coffee house/cafe (Bridge St Cafe) , a worthwhile discount clothing store named Frenchy’s – part of a chain, and a good dinner in Antigonish.

We’ve been staying with out friends Barbara Chason and Bill Roberts,View of Woody Point first at their house in Corner Brook, then at their idyllic place in equally idyllic Woody Point, and now again at their home in Corner Brook. Woody Point seems wonderful. we’re thinking of staying for a month or longer next summer. It comes very close to our ideal of a village where we can spend the summer to read or write, with a community and some cultural events. We hiked around the town and the area, went swimming in a brook near the town, visited another town that faces the ocean, and sat out on the porch lst night watching stars and hearing a moose snort in the field next door.

Some unedited pics of our trip are available at my flickr

It’s off to Gros Morne National Park and then off to the northern peninsula of Newfoundland for a few days.

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