Whales, wheels, puffins, moose and mice.

The thing about driving on the wrong side of the road is that you seem to be the only one who realises it is wrong.  All the other drivers have no trouble at all staying on that other side, which is where you would like to be, but as they are all coming towards you, clearly it is not a good idea. Also, despite knowing the steering wheel isn’t in the passenger seat, one cannot help but instinctively head for that side of the vehicle. At least, being as I am the nominated driver of one of our cars, I do not have to sit in said passenger seat, gripping the sides as if I am trying to remodel the upholstery, and stomping on an imaginary brake pedal while some other poor sod tries to stay in the right hand lane. Anyway, so far, so good, haven’t hit anything or anyone, and the car is still unmarked! Scary thing is, we’ve hardly driven anywhere yet!
 Looking out the window of our very cosy cabin here at the Brown Rabbit Camp site, I can see that today, I will have to figure out how to get the windscreen wipers going. I have managed to get the rear window wiper; wiping, but that was a mistake, and I had to enlist the help of co pilot Wayne to get the darn thing to cease it’s unnecessary dancing!

So we are out of the big smoke of At Johns, and now some distance (not great) south. Had an epic shopping trip with Beck’s in charge of the “List” while Wayne and I skilfully drove two huge shopping carts around the Scoby mart. To ensure someone would find me in the event the inevitable happened, I lifted a perfectly innocent Helium filled love heart ($5) on a long sting, and attached it to the cart. “Hey Becks, if I get lost, just look for my heart”  how sweet. Totally lost on her, as chef was busy ticking off items on her really loooong list!  Ah well!

Shopping done (about $400) and stuffed into the vehicles (really no room left anywhere, even had a lb of butter in the cup holder) we headed for this place.

This little camp is excellent. Compared to all other accommodations, this is 5 star. We may never leave!!!

A Little walk, after demolishing some of the shopping, and we are definitely in the Newfoundland that we had all expected.  Small bay, fog, thousands of seabirds, the most primal sound of a whale breathing close inshore but invisible in the mist, bright coloured old houses surrounded by tall grass and wild flowers and to top it off, out walks a moose!  Whew!

This excellent photo was taken by the legendary
outdoors photographer and all round handyman..  Kieran  :)

                                                         


On the way down here, we stopped at Cape Spear, where we had the pleasure of watching humpback whales milling around not far offshore. Whale watching like this is completely addictive. All of us agree that we could just sit at a place like that for hours, and as long as someone provided tea, coffee, sandwiches, cakes etc, we wouldn’t move! Sadly the fog horn didn't sound!










This little character had everyone excited for a bit as well.

and we finally had some real RK new to report. The car in front of us, hit and killed two , yes two in one incident..  innocent little dragon flies!!  I know this, as they sailed over it's roof to land on the road just in front of us.  I don't think anyone else noticed!  Also, there was this!!! which we decided was genuine RK action, as it was on what could be used as a road!  The fun is endless!

And today, (all that stuff above is yesterdays news)  we saw puffins!  go look them up on google..  very cute, can only just fly, live about 30 years, and swim like penguins. photos  later  :)