L’Anse Au Clair/Red Bay Day 5

Monday, August 19, 2019
L'Anse-au-Clair, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
This morning we drove to the Point Amour Lighthouse. It was very foggy and cold but Murray managed to hike to the top of the lighthouse. We did a self guided tour of the facility and were served tea and Purity cookies compliments of our tour guide, Carolyn.
We stopped at the Whalers Restaurant and gift shop for lunch.
Then we walked over to another UNESCO World Heritage Site in Red Bay. Red Bay Battle Harbour was the whaling capital of the 1600’s and a former whaling station established by the Basques in the 1530’s. We heard of their hardships hunting for the bowhead whales in small boats with maybe 6 people. They had to spear the whales heart.  Killing the whales was popular for oil to light lamps in all of Europe. Very interesting. Saw a restored whaling boat called a chalupa.
We walked around Red Bay and took some beautiful pictures.
The Treaty of Paris of 1763 ended the war between England and France. France gave up their colonial possessions in North America including Labrador and Newfoundland to England.
Had pizza in our room at the Northern Light Inn In L’Anse-Au-Clair, Labrador/Nfld.
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