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Newfoundland 2005

It was amazing to me how this fog came in and stuck around the harbour. I called it the fog bowl. It sort of just hung around the downtown harbour area all day.

These two photos were taken within 15 minutes of each other. As I walked downtown later in the morning, the fog was still hanging around town and it was at least 5 degrees C lower than it was at Jim's house in the West End, where it was a completely sunny day! Jim says it often snows downtown in the winter and doesn't where he is. Must be all that hot music!

This little fellow caught my eye as I went down the Hill and stopped at the little pond halfway down. I stopped to enjoy the sunny day on the land side of the hill and met the Tremills from Ontario who were attending the Festival 500 - the choral singing festival. Marylou herself was a choral director and had come to participate herself in the Massed Choir. Her daughter was at a similar festival in the Maritimes and the daughter's boyfriend was here in St. John's singing with his choir. It was her second visit to St. John's and this time she had brought her husband to enjoy the city.

I stopped at the Press and Bean in the Murray's Premises to pick up lunch. I never knew this place existed till Jim told me about it today. I had passed it so many times and hadn't bothered to look down the steps on Water Street until today. I will have to check it out another time. I twas so cool here in town. I'm glad I thought to bring my jacket with me. You just never know what the weather will be from one moment to the next here. It's been alternately hot and cold here this trip. I guess that's how it is in June. When I had asked Melissa earlier what clothes to bring, she advised "a bit of everything." She was right! I brought the lunch back to Jim's and couldn't believe the change in temperature and weather. It was hot and sunny here. Amazing!

When Lillian came home from work, we decided to go to Bell Island to have some fish & chips at Dick's Restaurant. I remembered how to get there from last year and we arrived in Portugal Cove a very few minutes before boarding the ferry. There was nary a boat in sight except for the ferry and one green skiff tied up in the harbour. I was surprised not to see a bunch of boats out since it was a beautiful calm day. We drove onto the ferry and I took a photo of an unusual rock formation in Portugal Cove and then a couple of Bell Island. Two workers stood on deck, going home with their lunchboxes from their work ashore.

Bell Island Adventure