The Northern Peninsula

We were on the road, Route 430 N under an overcast sky and drove through brief showers  for the first couple of hours. The highway follows the coast through many small communities all called ___  Cove. There was even one called "Nameless Cove." We stopped at a clearing  along the highway where RVers could boondock overnight. There was a short White Rocks Walking Trail which I took wearing my Dunromin bug gear.  Too buggy for  Kathy and Shadow. The trail circles a pond.  As displayed at the start, there were plants  growing in the deep crevices of the limestone                                                  rocks.

As we continued north, the sky cleared; nothing but liquid sunshine when we reached St. Anthony around noon. We checked in at Triple Falls RV Park for two nights, ate a quick lunch and drove the 8 km to St. Anthony to the Grenfell Historic Properties. The main museum tells the history of Sir Wilfrid  Grenfell, a doctor who came to northern Newfoundland in the 1800s  to aid the impoverished people of the isolated coast. We watched an informative 15 minute movie and found the numerous exhibits very interesting. The gift shop sells  beautiful locally crafted items which were also sold  at the time to raise money  for Sir Grenfell's work.

It was a long day, driving 217 km and spending a couple of hours at the museum so we decided to leave the Grenfell House Museum and Teahouse Walking Trail until the next day. As we drove farther north, there were fewer "Pot Hole" warning signs, only to be replaced by frequent "Rough Road for next  # km" signs.😒