Canadian Maritimes - Part 3 - Our Travel Adventures

Picking up where I left off... Our next stop was at Dildo Run Provincial Park, Newfoundland (NL). This was a nice park, but (again) there wasn't any cell service. We drove the 20-miles each day to get cell service in the cute town of Twillingate. We stayed here for about a week. While here, we visited the Great Auk Winery, the Horny Head Lighthouse, attended the Twillingate Dinner Theater, and visited the Beothuk Interpretation Center.

North Atlantic Aviation Museum

Our next stop was only 100 miles away. We spent the night at the North Atlantic Aviation Museum in Gander, which allows RV's to spend the night. It's also a pretty decent aviation museum.

From rainy Gander we drove to the windy Bonavista Peninsula NL. The free Landfall Municipal Park has boondocking, gorgeous views, and good cell service, with a 3-day stay limit, this beats out the wind, Next door to the municipal park is the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse, a statue of John Cabot, and Puffin Island.

From here, we drove an hour and half to the town of Milton. On our way to the peninsula for boondocking, we passed a sign for a Cidery. We thought we would hit it up when we left, but when I looked up their hours, they're only opened Thursday-Sunday, so we made a special trip there.Cute little place. We each got a flight of 6. They had smoked brisket on the menu, so Larry had the sandwich & I the birria tacos. The food was very good, the cider was okay. On our way out to the cidery we stopped at the Bonavista Visitor Center where they have a ship replica of explore John Cabot's ship, the "Matthew". We took the tour which was interesting.

Something Connie has always wanted to do was to come to Newfoundland to see Puffins. Today we drove to the Elliston Puffin Viewing Site and saw the Puffins fairly close-up. When we got back to the motorhome for lunch, we had a pod of whales playing out front of our RV! We sat and watched them for hours! Bad pictures but great views through the binoculars.

On our drive to Elliston, we stopped to see the Dungeon Arches. Besides Puffins, Elliston is known as the Root Cellar Capital of the World and has claimed that title from the 135 root cellars that exist in the community. Are they root cellar or Hobbit houses. Hmm

Elliston Puffin viewing area

Gift shop in Elliston

Puffins

Elliston Root Cellar

Dungeon Arches

Larry trying to feed the Puffin

Dungeon Arches

Elliston Gift Shop

Overlook at Dungeon Provincial Park

Elliston Root Cellars

I wish I had one of these so I could get better pictures of the Puffins

Elliston Root Cellar

Our next stop was boondocking at Norman's Cove Cemetery. We had a "quiet" 2-night stay there with a wonderful view of the bay. We visited the town of Dildo, where Jimmy Kimmel is the honorary Mayor. We had to have dinner at the Dildo Brewery. Unfortunately, there's no museum there anymore. We also took a day trip to the Contented Heart Light Beacon. We packed up and moved to Chapel's Cove, another great boondocking spot. While at Chapel's Cove, we drove into the city of St. John's and visited the Johnson Geo Center.

Our overlook at Norman's Cove

Heavy fog on the bay, but that didn't stop the seabirds from enjoying their breakfast from the boat.

Our boondocking site at Chapel's Cove

Chapel's Cove Bay

This was the cove at Chapel Arm

View when we were sightseeing around St John's

On the other side of where we boondocked at Chapel's Cove was this beautiful house on a pond.

There was quite the wait for dinner, but it was fun and delicious.

View from our spot at Norman's Cove. Boat coming in with the seabirds enjoying their lunch.

Our next stop was at the La Manche Provincial Park with Bob and Joyce. We had a farewell dinner with them, as we parted ways here. From there, we went to St. Vincent's Beach for another boondocking night. After spending over a month in Newfoundland, our time came to an end. We took the return ferry from the town of Argentia to Sydney, Nova Scotia. This was a 16-hour overnight ferry ride. We got lucky and got a "sleeping pod" on stand-by. This was a small room with a bunk bed and a place to hang your jacket. That's it! But it worked great for us to sleep our way back to the mainland.

We enjoyed our time on this island but were looking forward to seeing the rest of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. But that will all be in the next part of our Canadian Maritimes blog.