With temperatures around 50 and rain late yesterday we are not sure what to plan for the daytime. Tonight we head to Trinity for a dinner theater. We wake to cloudy skies and cool temperatures but there is a promise of clearing. After breakfast we head to Elliston to view the puffins. Wells is more sensible today bringing only one camera and one lens. We are in luck with a few puffins on our side about 20 feet away. After a couple of hours we pack it in head south a bit to hike another trail that follows the coastline. This one is longer more than ten miles one way. We decide to hike out for an hour and back for an hour. Yesterday we saw many people doing the Skerwink Trail but this one today we see nobody. It follows along the rocky coast and just about any time we look out we see whales. There are not close to us but nevertheless easy to see.
Along the trail we see many bake apple berries (cloud berry) but they are not quite ripe. They make a great jam.
Once back at the campground we need to complete a bit of truck repair. We glue our truck bed cover gasket back on since it’s just about flapped away. We don’t need to make supper tonight since we are heading to a dinner theater in Trinity about 30 miles south. Trinity is a small quaint village with interesting buildings on a protected harbor. A couple of days ago Marsha secured two of the last available tickets for the theater at the Rising Tide Theater. One sits at long tables with all the others there. Across from us sat a young couple from Switzerland visiting Eastern Canada for a month. Next to Wells sat a Newfoundlander with is daughter and son-in-law and family friends from Alberta. Wells and him talked about where they had lived in the past. Both had worked in the Fort MacMurray, Alberta area where he helped build the Syncrude Oil Sands Plant while Wells collected baseline environmental data. Asking him what he does not thinking he is retired, he says he owns 18 different companies engaged in a wide variety of activities from construction to day care. He owns a helicopter so fly your helicopter? Nope, he has a pilot that flies him around. It was an interesting encounter.
The meal was so so, Cod Casserole or Roast Beef. We each had one then shared so we taste both. The production was a performance of music and short skits with about 14 people. It was a fun time. Time to drive back to the camp. Being dusk it is prime time to see moose or worse run into one. Newfoundland has more moose than just about anyplace in the world. The roadways have a cleared of bushes and trees near the road so that one can see moose before they are directly in front of your car. Car/Moose accidents are often deadly with a thousand pound body mass at windshield height. We have yet to see a moose on the trip and now is not the time to do so.
Seeing North America 