Bonavista and Pictures, Pictures and Pictures

The overnight weather was quite lousy. Heavy rain and strong winds. Well, at least we were inside and asleep for most of the bad weather. Damn you Chris. We do not like you.

Got up in the morning to a wonderful day. Sunshine and temperatures around 15C.
Perfect for sightseeing.
We went for a nice breakfast at the "cafe" and then toured around the town of Bonavista.

The picture above is from our table at Skipper's where we went for dinner.

We thought we would go to the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse. It is right on the tip of Bonavista Peninsular. We took a tour of the lighthouse and learned all about the operation of the lighthouse and how to operate the light. I have promptly forgotten it all.

Bonnie in the kitchen of the lighthouse, but not looking ready to cook lunch.
It is quite amazing how they cooked, baked and heated with the stove.
They also had a nook in the outside wall which they used as a refrigerator.

The scenery at lighthouse point is quite spectacular as shown below.

We thought we would drive around, and see what else was on the tip of Cape Bonavista.
The Dungeon is a natural wonder created by centuries of pounding waves.
It is truly one of nature's carvings. It is a circular opening in the cliff with 2 side channels where the sea roars through it.

The handsome dude below was just standing around, and asked us to take his picture. Not sure why.

A short walk past the Dungeon showed some spectacular coastline.

Our next stop was Elliston the Puffin capital of the world, but also the root cellar capital of the world.
(more on that later)

Once you arrive at Elliston it is a 10 minute walk through rough terrain to the best puffin viewing site.
But your intrepid adventurers were up to the task.

Believe or not there are plenty of puffins in the picture.

For all you non believers, I risked life and limb to get a good close up of the puffins.
I was so close, I thought I might name them, but I wasn't close enough to tell if they were male of female.

More scenery from puffin point.

We mentioned that Elliston was the root cellar capital of the world. There are 135 root cellars in the area. I think that is more than the population of Elliston.
In this area, there is a lot of rocky ground, (as you can see in the pictures) so any root vegetables grown had to be stored and this was prior to refrigeration. Hence root cellars.
Below is a picture of one.

Our B&B for the night is great. Living room, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. What else could you want.

One thing we have noticed in Newfoundland is how friendly all the people are. Whether it's the  information centre, a gift shop, a restaurant or just walking on the street, everyone is so pleasant and easy to talk to. Sometimes we have no idea what they said, but it was in a very friendly way.

Tomorrow we are off to St John's.