St. Antony's, Whales and Icebergs

Now for the icebergs. The area was covered. They had a very late spring this year, so we were lucky and there were plenty of bergs and big. Normally, by mid July, the bergs are all melted. I guess I'm glad we had bad weather at the first of the trip. It's gorgeous now, in the high 80's or low 90's unless you're on the water. Then it's a little cooler. Be sure and look at the videos at the end of this post.







The next morning, we took a Boat Tour of the whales and icebergs. We saw plenty of both. I'm sorry that we can only put a few of the pictures up on the blog.








We headed to St. Anthony's and arrived around 1:00 pm.







The trip up there was great and we saw two moose on the way up. One doe and one with a pretty good rack since they are just growing them back. Of course, on the road, no picture. We got there and decided to explore the town. This picture is the trail we took . It was 476 steps and is called the Dare Devil trail. The view from the top was great.

After leaving Gros Morne on Wednesday, at 4:00 PM since we were waiting on our mail that didn't come, we overnighted at Port Aux Choix, at the Ocean Side RV Park. It's owned by the Lion's Club, there's no Elks up here, they say they've all been eaten by the Lions. Oh well, it was a beautiful beach to stay on for the night. No noise except the waves. We only stayed one night, but it was great until after my walk the next morning that was clear and sunny, the fog moved in and we had to wait for visualiblity to clear in order to move on.








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