Day 2 (September 19, 2026): St. Bride's to Bay Bulls and Onward to Home

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Breakfast, by Chef David, was served at 9AM: eggs, toast, sliced veggies, grilled ham.

What a comfortable suite we had! With two bedrooms, it was just perfect for the night.

Newfoundland had wind warnings of up to 100KM/H for the day.  As we pulled out of St. Bride's at 10:45AM to start our tour for the day, Mom excalimed, "I don't think I've ever seen a higher sea than that, in all the years I've lived in Newfoundland!"

Tao's Cascade on Rocky River, just outside Collinet.

The Rocky River fishway helps 

At St. Mary's, the town has developed a wonderful day-use site with top-notch facilities.  We stopped there for a picnic lunch.  This view looks north into St. Mary's Harbour.

Horses are a rare sight in these parts.  These three seemed quite happy, as they grazed in St. Mary's.

Oh, the wind was a-blowin' a gale at Gulch Beach in Point La Haye.

A typical Newfoundland winter wood supply - Point La Haye.

St. Vincent's Beach separates the long, narrow Holyrood Pond from the open Atlantic at St. Vincent's.  It is a spectacular beach, where caplin roll in great quantities at the end of June. For that reason, St. Vincent's in known as a premiere whale-watching spot at that time of year, as the whales chase the caplin.

The view from St. Vincent's Beach.  That is Shag Rock off in the distance.

The view back towards St. Vincent's Beach from Peter's River.

Most of the 23KM stretch from Peter's River to Daniel's Point would make you wonder if you were on the Saskatchewan prairie!  It's flat with hardly a tree to be found.

The barachois at Biscay Bay.

At Cappahayden, on the east shore of the Avalon, there is a moving monument to the Florizel, a steam ship which went aground on the rocks there in February 1918, during a huge winter gale, while enroute from St. John's to Halifax. Two-thirds of the 137 people on board perished.

That point is where the Florizel went onto the rocks. The captain thought he had rounded Cape Race, the ost southeasterly point on the Avalon.  However, he miscalculated and ran the ship westward at full speed, crashing onto the rocks.

In 1621, the colony at Avalon was the British capital of Newfoundland.

Ferryland Head Lighthouse.

Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Ferryland is a stone church - a rarity in these parts.

Wren, Costellos and Bois Islands, in Ferryland Harbour.

Ferryland.

Bay Bulls.

A rainbow appeared over Bay Bulls, as we were ending our Avalon loop and were about to head back to the Trans-Canada Highway and onwards to Clarke's Beach.

The mountain adjacent to Motion Road in Clarke's Beach, 2KM from Mom and Dad's place, was as special and as spectacular as anything we had seen along the route.

A Tour of Dad and Mom's 2026 Garden

Tomatoes

Green peppers.

Damsons.

Carrots.

Red onions.

Greenhouse tomatoes.

Apples.

Turnip.

An emotional farewell, as I left for St. John's at 7:30PM.  It's hard for parents to say good-bye to their adult children.  But it's equallty as difficult for adult children to say good-bye to their elderly parents.