July 26-on the road again, back to Bonavista

We actually had the air conditioning on all night, it was so muggy.  Soon we were packed up and on our way back along the TCH to slowly work our way back for the ferry ride home.  It feels different heading back, it feels like we are somehow done our vacation already, even though we have another 5 days on the island.  We decided that we had liked Bonavista so much, we would return there for the night, and check out another nearby town that we had heard about called Elliston where you could see puffins up close and personal.  We camped again at Cabot RV park as it was somewhere familiar, and Devon enjoyed a swim in the water with other kids.  The water was a bit too cold for me, and way too cold for Rob, but I ended up in anyhow as Devon's sandal got lost in the muddy bottom of the river, and I had to slop around and get it back.  We both had long hot showers after that, we were caked in mud and freezing cold from searching for the sandal.  We went back up to Bonavista area, to Elliston, a town known as the root cellar capital of Canada (if I remember correctly).  They had a cellar dug into the hillside open for visitors to have a look.  Pretty amazing what people have done to store their food, it would be hard work to dig one of these out, they were about 6 by 6 by 6 feet on the inside.  Gardens in Newfoundland grew root crops for the most part, nothing else seems possible.  The gardens would be on the side of the road, surrounded by big fences, and not seemingly near any houses. 

 

 

 

Checking out the root cellar

  We walked along this short path to the edge of the cliff, and over a small rocky bridge, and ended up on a small rocky outcropping right beside a puffin colony.  There were quite a few people around, but apparently when the conditions are right, the puffins will fly and land right beside people.

Puffins by their nesting burrows

They had to land with mouths full of fish while avoiding the gulls that were trying to steal their catch

Heading back to the truck along the path

 After walking on the cold and windy path, we were keen to have dinner and warm up.  We ended up in Nan's kitchen, recommended by a few people, where Rob got brave and had fish and brewis.  Should have taken a picture, it looked strange.  I enjoyed a bowl of chowder and warmed right up, then shared my crab dinner. (420 kms)