Corner Brook :    Had a bit of a lay in this morning after another so so nights sleep. I have decided to give in and purchase myself an air mattress. The Super self inflating air mat is an epic fail. It kills me during the night when I roll over but in the morning my back is fine..so today on the way home we stopped at Walmart and the exercise I get having to pump the sucker up will do me good.
Todays adventures took us about an hour south of Corner Brook to Stephensville . As we came into Stephensville we stopped by a stream and hiked in about 15 minutes to see some Fossilised rock...So at home if someone had said to me...Jenny lets go look at some fossils .. and I would have said "Not likely"..but when in Rome. While we were there we watched people coming and filling containers up with the spring water from the stream, they had a tap thing set up right beside the road and cars were continuously pulling up to fill their drinking bottles up, amazing.
  We branched out and drove about 100 km around an island that's connected to the mainland by a Causeway. This Island was once French owned so all the signage is in French. The place was called Port au Port and the end bit was called Cape St George. The left side of the Island was beautiful, and on the sheltered part of the Gulf of St Lawrence which is adjacent to Quebec. We stopped at a beautiful cove with rocks for sand, they also had a babbling brook running down to the sea. Really gorgeous.
There were some cemeteries by the seaside and an abundance of wildflowers and once again washing lines on display for the world to see .
At Cape St George there was a memorial stone explaining how the English came and kicked the Frenchies off and sent them in ships back to England and France, some died in ships ..It was a pretty big bagging of the English anyways. The French people also were in Nova Scotia and when the English moved them on some ended up down in Louisiana . These French were the Arcadians or in the South they are the Cajuns. See look at me learning all the time.. I had heard this story in reverse whilst in New Orleans.
At this Memorial site they had a bread oven, it looked like one of those outdoor Pizza ovens, anyway back in the day people could stop by and they would be given dough to cook in these ovens, they were randomly placed around the peninsula. Anyways there was this young bloke about 20 sitting on the table beside this oven, supervising the cooking of a loaf. It was his job every Friday and Saturday to sit there and light the fire in the oven and cook the bread, what a crap job !! Boring......
By the time we had seen the Cape it was time to head back to camp. It has started to get very busy as its a long weekend this weekend so the RV buses and 5th Wheelers are all on the roads. We managed to navigate ourselves to Walmart without any turn arounds and we bought some food from Dominion to cook tonight instead of eating out.. we were getting tired of Fried food. Oh well Kaff was getting tired of fried food. So have a guess what she wanted...Sausages !