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| Digging the potatoes has been a wonderful thing for Dad and I to do together, these last few years. |
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| When comparing the 2025 wheelbarrow load of potatoes to the 2026 crop above, this year's crop looks to be about 25% larger. |
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| That's between 500-600 potatoes! Enough to last until the end of the winter. |
After digging the spuds, we set out, just after 2PM, to start our road trip of the southern Avalon Peninsula. The entire route is just under 500KM and takes 6½ hours, without stopping. Of course, we spread it over two days and took our time. With stops, it took us about nine hours of driving time.
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| We stopped at A&W in Whitbourne for a late lunch, early into the journey. |
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| Just past Placentia, we started on the Cape Shore drive, wich is one of Newfoundland's designated scenic drives. Tomorrow, we will finish the Cape Shore drive and will also do the Irish Loop drive. |
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| The view over Northeast Arm, with Placentia in the top centre of the photo, off in the distance. |
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| Just past Placentia, I'm pretty sure this is the exremely rugged coastline of Red Island and Merasheen Island off in the distance. Both were resettled in the 1960s, as part of the Smallwood Government's Resettlement Program. |
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| Heading into Little Barasway. It's a twisty, turny road for much of the drive! |
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| After we arrived at the inn and I got Mom and Dad settled away for a nap, I jumped in the car and drove the 19KM to Cape St. Mary's Seabird Sanctuary. Pam and I took her mother there five years ago, during the pandemic. The place was so foggy that day that one could hardly see a thing. So, I've wanted to return ever since. It's a 1.25KM walk over a rugged trail from the visitor centre to Bird Rock, where the sanctuary's large concentration of birds is found. I think they would have found it too hard a walk. And with high winds forcast for tomorrow, it was a "now or never" moment! I am so glad I went! |
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| Bird Rock is home to a huge colony of gannets, murres and kitiwakes. |
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| Looking east from Bird Rock, to the former village of Tilts, with Bull Island being the small island on the far right. |
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| The Capeway Inn & Suites in St. Brides provided us with a very comfortable stay for the night. A former convent, it has been converted to an inn, with a stellar update having been completed. And spotlessly clean! |
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| With very limited restaurant options, I prepared dinner in our suite. Sausages, corn-on-the-cob, salad, mashed potato, and grilled vegetables. |
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