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Tag: sea glass

Day 13: Beachcombing, Lighthouse and Lobsters

red Low tide was at 8:55 AM this morning, some of us were up early to go beach combing for sea glass. Here is some of my find before the girls came down.

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Most of the day was spent playing cards and bananagrams. In the afternoon, Susan, Gillian and I went in to Victoria to buy some lobster. We also visited another lighthouse.

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This is the Leard’s Front Range Light, it was built in 1879.

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After the disappointment of Sunday, there were lots of lobsters today. We bought 5 lobsters that total about 8.5 pounds.

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The lady at the seafood store told us to take the rubber bands off before cooking them.

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Claudia and Angela having their lobsters.

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There isn’t a giant pot so it is one at a time in two pots.

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Gillian digging into her lobster.

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There were few clouds tonight, so we were able to watch the sun set.

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If you look really close you can see a heron in the water (at right) and on the horizon you can see the confederation bridge.

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Day 8: Heading to Herring Neck, Part 2

The girls on a big wooden rocking chair at the Middle Brook cottage.

Our cottage, number 5.

We made one stop along the way at Glassy Beach in Springdale, NL.

This is small rocky beach with tons of sea glass.

A lot of it still needs more time.

The girls were in sea glass heaven.

A sign pointing us in the right direction.

From Springdale it was on to Herring Neck. We arrived at our Old Salt Box Co. vacation home. The kitchen.

The stairwell.

The living room with big picture windows.

The view across the road.

The house is on the left.

Some photos of the area around the house.

The Tanabe’s in shadows.

Down at the end of Church road.

A sea urchin shell lying in the grass and rocks.

We spent some time reading the headstones at the Anglican Church next door.

The area is so quiet and peaceful. If something big happened in the world we didn’t know about it, as we had no internet, didn’t turn on the tv/radio and no newspapers, it was kind of nice.


Day 2: Gros Morne

We headed into Gros Morne National Park today. We have a cottage booked in Rocky Harbour.

This was our first stop at one of the lookouts.

Our ride, a Grand Caravan.

Angela catching a ride with Susan.

Our cottage wasn’t quite ready, so we dropped off our food in the fridge and headed to the Visitor Centre.

Gillian with a couple of her buddies.

Angela scratching the bears nose.

A short drive from there was Norris Point.

We’re hoping to do a sea kayak tour later in the week.

So far there hasn’t been a lot of people which has been nice.

Claudia on her post.

Girls on the beach.

Norris Point, it was cloudy most of the day, but the rain held out until later in the evening.

Some jellyfish in the water.

Claudia at the end of the pier.

We did the aquarium tour at the Bonne Bay Marine Station. The Marine Station is marine ecology research and teaching facility run by Memorial University of Newfoundland in St.John’s. The tour guides are students from the university. Our guide was studying marine biology who was originally from Whitby, ON. Here she is showing the girls a giant hermit crab.

Gillian holding the hermit crab.

Here she is showing us how to tell the difference between male and female snow crabs. This was a female, they have a bigger abdomen coverings.

A male snow crab.

Everyone touching a sea star.

These are the tanks they have at the aquarium.

They had a bunch of different lobsters. This was an orange lobster.

Including a rare blue lobster. The odds of catching a blue lobster is 1 in 2 million.

Another lobster, she said it was an albino, but it seems to have some colour.

There was also a touch tank that had different creatures in it.

A sea anemone caught a fish.

Gillian picking up a spider crab.

Claudia with a sea star.

This is the view across the road from the cottage.

Claudia picking up rocks.

Gillian checking out the view.

When Claudia was down at the water she discovered there was sea glass.

Next thing you knew, we were all down there looking.

Some of my early finds, lots of blue sea glass, but the others didn’t seem as polished. We left a lot behind as they needed more time.

The tide was going out while we were down there.

Angela showing something?

It was good start to our Gros Morne adventure.

Our drive today. A. Deer Lake B. Rocky Harbour C. Norris Point