Mile 5434

 This morning we wake up and are in for a good surprise, it has snowed over night.  Temperatures are at 32F, feeling something much lesser and a stiff breeze is coming from the ocean.  We are in no hurry and take our time with the breakfast at the Fishers Inn & Hospitality Home here in La Scie, NL, a B&B we only can recommend.  We make a quick check on the icebergs from yesterday and then retrieve our way back to Sheppardville, NL to catch the TCH-1 to continue further East.  The landscape has completely changed from yesterday where all looked more spring like with the young green just fighting the gray, and today the more winterly look, just like the first snow before the leaves have fallen.  We have a quick stop at Grand Falls-Windsor, NL for coffee and tea, and continue.  Unfortunately does the Queen Street Dinner Theater not perform until early July and so we continue on the TCH-1 to Notre-Dame Junction to pick up Rt-340 (Road to the Isles) to Twillingate, NL.  

Morning surprise in La Scie, NL

They are still here

Morning Winter has broken, like the first ....

On the way up we stop at Boyd's Cove and visit the Beothuk Interpretation Center.  The Beothuk people were an Indigenous people of Newfoundland who were hunter-gatherers and spoke a language related to Algonquian.  They lived on this island for thousands of years, in Boyd's Cove in a time frame from 1650 to 1720, before European contact, becoming finally extinct as a distinct culture, the last of them, a young woman named Shanawdithit dying in St. John's, NL in 1829.  The term "Beothuk" means "the people" in their language.

Beothuk Interpretation Center, Boyd's Cove, NL

Shanawdithit and Beothuk Indian

We return to Rt-340 and pass the causeway to Twillingate, NL in our quest to see more icebergs.  And we will not be disappointed, even though the wind is hauling up here and temperatures haven't improved all day long.  

Inceberg at the Twillingate Causeway and in the bay

Long Point Lighthouse and Nanny's Hole, Twillingate, NL

Icebergs near Twillingate, NL

Twillingate, NL

We explore a little the surroundings, drive out to Crow Head, and the Long Point Lighthouse, and out to French Beach.  All along we see some icebergs, but the temperatures are not calling for a hike on any of the trails around here.  We return to Twillingate and warm up with a good dinner and some higher percentage drinks.  Tomorrow will be another day, and perhaps a bit warmer.

"Rather then try to conquer your fear through reason, you destroy its source."  -  Bernard Assiniwi, 1935-2000, Quebecois a writer of the book 'The Beothuk Saga'