Rob-n-Hild, Eastward Ho!
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Corner Brook - Channel-Port aux Basques 374 km. 5:33 hours. Elevation maximum 315 metres 
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| Today is our last day in Newfoundland, but as our ferry doesn't leave until midnight (or thereabouts) we waited until late to check out and had lunch in the restaurant attached to the hotel - called Jungle Jim's. It is chain of casual dining places and seemed very popular, with plenty of people driving up to the hotel just to eat. It was also still pretty wet so we didn't fancy anything outside - followed by sitting in Mary Jane in wet clothes all day.... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Once on the road we took a detour out along a penninsula to Cap de Boutte (literally Cape Boot) named after the shape of the cliff at the end. This turned out to be a really nice drive along the southern coast of the penninsula - and we got to see a donkey and some sheep! So far, this trip has not gone through any agricultural areas so we were still light on domestic animals. The Cape itself really does look like a boot and the cliffs are full of birds - just none that we can recognize! There is a communal oven in the park by the Cape which is fired up and then local people come and bake thier loaves. It is so popular that the path along the cliffs is called the breadcrumb trail! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The town of Channel-Port aux Basques is a old historic port, which is now the major connection between Newfoundland and Nova Scotia as the ferry to North Sydney goes year round. We didn't really have a chance to look around as it was still wet and little is open at this time of year, but we did get to eat at Mary Brown's Chicken and Taters and see Scott's Cove where there will be lots of activity in the summer! Mary Brown's is a chain we have seen a lot around Newfoundland, but hadn't had the chance to try. It is fast-food chicken place, but it was really good and hit the spot on a wet evening. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Boarding the ferry was a bit strange as we were expecting the usual queues, but we were directed down to Deck 1 where we had to reverse into a lane at the bottom of the ramp, while other people were asked to turn their cars around to be able to drive up the slope to get out later. Quite weird and clearly some people were not used to reversing their cars in tight spaces! It also meant that we were right at the bottom of the boat once we had parked the car and, given the number of people waiting for the elevator, we went with the stairs - all the way up to Deck 9! At least once there Hild had reserved us nice reclining seats and we were able to sort ourselves out nice and comfy while the rest of the cars and trucks were loaded. Then it was just about trying to get some sleep! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coming up: Ferry to Nova Scotia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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