" This land is my land from Bonavista to Vancouver Island "

Well where is Bonavista? It is in Newfoundland and is where John Cabot landed in 1497. Yesterday we left Eastport for a day's drive through Tera Nova Park up to Bonavista. The sun actually came out a few times and we had a great day. The drive up was mostly along the water and we visited some very interesting communities. Bonavista is a town of about 3500 people and still relies on fishing and most recently tourism. They have a replica of John Cabot's boat the " Matthew " and found it amazing how small it was and NO Compass. Took about 6 weeks for the voyage across the Atlantic. There was a National Heritage site called Ryan Premises that told the history of the fishing industry and had some local musicians playing Newfoundland music. Lots of fun as we had lunch and a trip out to the historic lighthouse. On our was back we stopped at a small fishing village - Trinity - that has been kept as it looked back in early times. Made it back to the RV and gassed up ready for our trip to St.John's today. This morning the rain and wind started to blow as the ruminants of a hurricane hit Newfoundland. We made a wise choice to delay our trip till tomorrow as it would be unsafe to pull the RV on the highway. Lots of roads washed out as 40 mm of rain came down in a very short time. My satellite dish blew over and broke !!!!! Spent the afternoon trying to fix it but will order a new one in St.John's. Gail is starting supper and I thought I would quickly update the blog. No pictures as we have a slow Internet connection. Thanks to everyone for your E-mails- always like to hear from home.

Ron & Gail