Gander, NL to Rocky Harbour, NL

Beautiful drive getting to Canada National Park - Gros Morne.  We're staying at the Hilltop Inn in Rocky Harbour.

We decided to purchase annual park passes to Canada National Parks.  Fortunately, they gave us credit for all the individual entrance fees we paid so far on the trip - Anne of Green Gable Historic Site, Alexander Graham Bell, the Citadel in Halifax, Terra Nova National Park, PEI National Park, Cape Breton National Park - so after all the credits we only owed $20 for our annual passes - good through August 31, 2017!

The landscape is amazing.  

Tide was out

View of Rocky Harbour

Stopped at Java Jack's for a late lunch - soup, tea and latte.  

Cute place but food was so so.  We'll go somewhere else tomorrow.

Tomorrow we booked a 2 hour cruise, a 2 hour cruise, to Western Brook Pond - fiord located in Gros Morne National Park.  There's a 30 minute hike to get to the boat dock.  Our tour starts at 3:00 pm.

Bonavista, NL to Gander, NL

Driving day. 

On the way to Gander we stopped at Terra Nova National Park.  We weren't planning to stay long - we stayed 5 hours.

Whale bones

Had a nice lunch at the cafe - homemade turkey soup and tea

Then we went for a short hike along the coast and in the woods 

Moose tracks on the trail but no moose sighting

The ferns were very pretty

Lookouts along the way

Back at the visitor center, an Art Demonstration was happening

Christine, the artist, had a hands on demo.  Christine is getting out the paints for me.

On a real hunk of salt dried cod, on the skin I brushed on black paint, then brushed on assorted colors of my choosing

My painted cod fish

Next a clean piece of paper goes on top and I rubbed over it

And voila, my fish art was taken outside to dry in the sun

With my art in the car we headed for Gander.