Well, after three weeks on Newfoundland (it’s pronounced NewfunLAND by the way), it was time to take the ferry back to Nova Scotia. Naturally this involved getting up before dawn, much like taking an early flight.
At that time of the morning you need to keep a sharp eye out for moose along the road- luckily there didn’t seem to be any out and about.
Into the belly of the beast we go, along with a dozen or so other RVs, numerous cars and motorcycles, and lots of 18 wheelers!
We have to arrive 2 hours before departure, at which point they line the vehicles up outside. After we wait for about an hour, they start loading the vehicles. It’s very efficient, actually. Once you leave your vehicle on one of the 3 garage levels in the ferry, you aren’t allowed to go back down to the garage.
We had an uneventful 7 hour crossing. Pretty boring. Paul read a book and I played games on my ipad and wandered around the ship. Dozer stayed in the trailer. I’m pretty sure he slept all day.
Before we left Newfoundland, here’s what we did:
We drove all the way over to Gros Morne National Park, where we spent one day just hanging around, not doing much at all. The weather was not good enough to hike to the top of the mountain so we made the plan to do that the following day.
In the meantime, it looked like it would be a nice sunset, so we drove out to the nearby cove to wait for it. 
The wind was really whipping, so the waves were bigger than usual.
Eventually the sky turned bright pink.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t feeling well the next day and there was no way I was going to hike, so Paul went by himself. It was a 9 mile hike with over 2000 feet of elevation gain, and of course he said it was awesome! He even saw a moose along the trail.
I was glad he went without me, and glad I got to stay home and do nothing all day, but I was definitely jealous when I heard about the hike. His cell phone takes a pretty good picture. The view was obviously spectacular!
That night was one of the best nights to see the Perseid meteor shower, so at 11:30 pm, we jumped into the truck and drove out of town to find a dark spot.
We parked in a parking lot and just as our eyes were getting accustomed to the dark, a car pulled in next to us, with his lights on, of course. I was a little concerned as to why someone would pull right up to us, but it turns out it was a ranger, just checking the parking lots to make sure people aren’t camping illegally. We assured him we just wanted to see the meteors.
We each saw a couple of dozen meteors-some were bright, others not so bright. I love taking pictures of stars, unfortunately I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get a good shot with my new camera, and all of the decent pictures were taken with my old one. I brought it with me because I know it takes good star shots! Too bad I didn’t get a good picture of a meteor, but its annoying to everyone to have the light from a camera on all the time, so I didn’t want to take too many.
On the drive home, which was done verrrrrry slowly, we saw two moose on the side of the road. Those suckers sure are hard to see at night!
So now here we are back in Sydney, Nova Scotia, where we’ll spend a few days exploring this area.
