The view for our morning coffee.

Today was shaping up to be a good weather day.

Our Salt Box home.

After some early cloud cover the sun was starting to peak out.

The scenery never gets old. It’s like being in the Newfoundland and Labrador television commercials.

We headed to Twillingate to do a whale watching tour.

We drove around to kill some time before the tour.

Claudia looking over to Twillingate South.

The Tanabe’s in Twillingate.

On the dock with the mermaid. The Mermaids in the City ran in St John’s in 2006. Kind of like the moose in Toronto.

Heading out hoping to see some whales. There were no icebergs around.

Burnt Island.

The Longpoint Lighthouse.

Early on there were no sightings.

And then we saw a minke whale.

And followed it around.

Then there were three fin whales.

The fin whales are up to 23 m in length.

The girls were happy to see the whales.

The weather was perfect. What a difference from yesterday.

Angela and Gillian looking at her pictures. (I got heck from the girls for originally captioning this as “Angela and Claudia”)

After a couple of hours we headed back for shore.

The girls back in Twillingate.

That was our boat.

We took the drive out to Crow Head and the Long Point lighthouse. Looking down at the waves crashing the rocks.

Angela at the edge.

The lighthouse was built in 1875.

Claudia holding up the lighthouse.

The girls goofing around.

Another “I thought we were done with these…” photos.

St Peter’s Anglican Church is one of the oldest wooden churches in Newfoundland. It was completed for 1844.

We took in the Durrell Museum.

The polar bear that came to Twillingate in 2000 on the ice. It had to be destroyed and was eventually returned to the town for tourism purposes.

At the end of the road was French Beach. There was a run of capelin, the black in the water.

Some rocks to climb around on.

This local boy was catching the capelin with his net.

Angela giving Mom fits.

There was a pet cemetery.

We found some root cellars.

One of the boat house across the road from our house.

We took a drive to Merrit’s Harbour. Here is Claudia hanging from the cliff.

Claudia managed to climb back up.

A root cellar in Herring Neck.

The end of day.

Our drive today. A. Herring Neck B. Twillingate C. Crow Head D. Merrit’s Harbour