We had another early morning...5:30 a.m. breakfast and on the road by 6:30 a.m. to get to the ferry to take us back to the island. Lots of rain today. Unfortunately we could not go out on the outside deck and it was just horrible weather. Even though the ferry is huge, we could feel it when it hit waves on the water. We had to grab something to hold onto when walking around. A few of us were twacking in the gift shop and almost fell right over!
The fishermen don't let a little rain stop them. I took some artistic liberties here as my photo was not that great. Tried to make it a bit more interesting by adding in a fun filter to make it "pastel". Works for me!
These next two photos found me having some fun with focus. Here I had the focus on the window and rain and not worrying too much about the background.
Here I switched the focus more to the background. I like experimenting with the different effects.
We had to stop for fuel so we ended up in the gas bar/grocery store. Jam Jams are very popular here. They have to be made by Purity, if you want the real thing. No, I didn't try them. Our tour director knew all the right places to buy them; she felt the gas station price was way too high. One of our fellow travellers did buy Linda a package of Jam Jams, despite the price.
Another Purity treat, Tea-Vees. Oh joy, sugar and white flour!
Across the street from the gas station...they love flying their provincial flag. You see them everywhere!
Next stop was Broom Point, a former fishing village. The scenery was breathtaking! Such beautiful rugged shores. We learned a lot about three families (brothers/wives/children) and how they lived here for six months of the year, catching/canning cod. The red building below housed the traps, boats and fishing nets. It was a hard life.
Just enjoying the scenery.
Traps.
The family would fish in this cove. It was quite the feat to get the boat in and out every day...it's not like they had a dock!
I could just sit here all day and enjoy the view.
Evening stop was in Rocky Harbour. This was shot from our room.
Tonight six new travellers joined us at the dinner. Two of the newbies sat with Hannes and me, they were a mother and daughter. We had a traditional Newfoundland dinner, called Jiggs, a one pot meal. Salted meat, drained and resalted for a couple of days, then boiled for three hours, add in root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, green peas, however no cabbage for us...could you imagine 38 people on the bus the next day after having cabbage the night before?) lol Also in the mix was a yellow split pea pudding bag, mushed up peas with butter. I really liked them! (They are between the potatoes and peas).
Here is a photo of the Jiggs. I love the old fashioned plate too!
Started the meal with vegetable soup, then the Jiggs, then more desserts...first was a Partridgeberry Tart (of course), a piece of New York Slice, then they came around with Blueberry Cheesecake. We walked back to the hotel...had to wear off something! The walk was only about 3 minutes, not nearly long enough!!!
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