We left Brigus and were cruising merrily along the road in the direction of St. John’s, our next task being to secure sufficient ice cream for the troops. John was driving. I was navigating. Katherine was scoping out likely ice cream destinations. Suddenly I turned to John and said, “Can you turn this car around…
Category: Travel
Field trips and journeys, no matter how far
Cupids. Not Brigus. Oops.
After lunch, the sun jumped out, the sky turned blue, the snow stopped and we went to Cupids. In my last post I did say we’d go to Brigus next, didn’t I? Right. I lied. But you’ll like Cupids. I promise. Cupids is actually just north of Brigus and we decided to swing through the…
Conception ‘arbour & Bacon Cove
After Avondale, we mosied along to Conception Harbour. There’s a wreck there of a whaling ship, thought to be the “SS Sposa” that has been beached there since 1964 and it makes for dramatic photos. Apparently the SS Southern Foam and SS Charcot lie out in the harbour and make for excellent scuba destinations. For…
Avondale Station, everybody out!
Today we went exploring, as we are prone to doing in winter. Truth to tell, we’re pretty much prone to dropping everything and wandering off vaguely, quite of our own accords at any season of the year, but we make a pointed effort to do so in winter so as to avoid doldrums (which are…
I must go down to the seas again…
With apologies to John Masefield*! Middle Cove beach, in the morning sunlight, is a marvelous place to be. Especially on a blue-sky day with, “the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.” I wanted to play with the burst mode feature and shutter priority, as well as to get a feel for…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 