June 22nd - Terra Nova National Park

Saturday we drove to Terra Nova National Park, one of two national parks in Newfoundland. It is a beautiful area with extremely dense forests. Upon checking in we learned that bear are a very big concern here. We were given lots of warnings because there has been recent bear activity near the campground.

It is a holiday weekend here, "Discoverer Day", but there was no problem getting a nice campsite in the park.  Here is a picture of Marge backed into our spot carved out of the woods.

Not far behind our campsite is a great playground for kids. Something we had never seen before in a playground was a ziplining rig. Kellen really enjoyed it. Here are a couple of pictures. He did it multiple times. I enjoyed watching be a twelve year old.

We needed fuel bad and learned that the closest diesel was in Glovertown about fifteen miles back. I thought about stopping there on the way to the park but saw no station close to the highway so we passed it up. I'm glad we came back without Marge attached. Getting in and out of the station and then turning around in town would have been a challenge. It is always easier to get diesel with no trailer attached. By the way diesel here averages about $1.30 Canadian per liter or about $4.00 per gallon. I've been afraid to check my fuel mileage with all the hills we go up and own every day.

We drove down the coast a little and took a left turn toward East Pointe. A quarter mile down the road was a wooden decked, one lane bridge. Here is a picture of it. I literally had about six inches of clearance on each side of my dual wheels. Each side had a ramp up to the bridge so you had to drive all the way to the bridge itself to see if anyone was on it coming at you.

Later, with a little direction, Kellen cooked supper for us. We had fried pork chops, baked potato, and corn. It was all very good. He is eager to learn how to cook. Grandma is teaching him about the importance of seasoning. Here is a picture of Kellen digging in.

While we were sitting out under the awning after supper it poured down rain once again. (The weather changes here pretty often.) Here is a picture of the pouring rain. It is hard to capture on a picture how hard it came down for a while. I guess I need to learn how to take videos and download them. With the poor Wifi we have most of the time they probably wouldn't load anyway.

Sunday is laundry day and a little hiking if the weather permits.