We were very happy to say goodbye to our awful b&b this morning and hit the road for the start of our return to St Johns. About an hour along the way we turned off to Rattling Brook. “Iceberg finder” had shown me an iceberg there a few days ago but the weather was too foul to even consider going there. Then the lady in the Visitor Centre suggested we stop off on our return trip, so stop we did.
This iceberg was a good size and really close to the shore so once again we went a bit silly with photos. There are currently 106 icebergs around the shores of Newfoundland. A couple of kilometres down the road is the settlement of King’s Point and a little cafe on the shore where we had a snack. As we were leaving we caught another glimpse of the iceberg and stopped for more photos.
Then it was back to the Trans Canada Highway for about 200 more kilometres, many of which were done at 40 kph through kilometre after kilometre of roadworks. Fortunately we only had drizzling rain today, mostly in the morning.
After checking into our hotel we drove to the Gander Airport to see where the planes landed after 9/11. There was an excellent display about that and also the history of the airport. A lot of Communist aircraft refuelled there en route to Cuba because they couldn’t land in the USA and quite a number of people defected. We had a drink and a snack in the restaurant and chatted to a woman who was on her way home to Labrador. She told us about a time a few years ago when the temperature went down to -100 degrees for a couple of days.
It turned out to be an interesting day and almost certainly our last iceberg.
A great looking iceberg- how great to have an iceberg finder!
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