St. Barbe
Tuesday Mai 19th I waited on the carpark of Blanc-Sablon, Labrador,
the loading on the ferry for the return to St Barbe, Newfoundland,
where we arrived around 12:00. I stationed lengthily in front of the
Ferry Terminal to profit from Wifi connection in order to publish
the weekly page of my website then to consult my mailbox. Weather
was gloomy with a not very pleasant drizzle. Temperature was about
7°C. I returned to the bivouac of the 14/05 at Black Duck Cove.
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| Arrivée à St. Barbe |
Bellburns
On Wednesday morning I returned to station in front of the Ferry
Terminal to use Wifi connection. Indeed I had an appointment by
Skype with the Villa Les Rochilles as back-office; my brother assumes the
administration of the Thébaïde Villa in my absence. I begun again
the road on the west-coast of Newfoundland southwards to join
east-coast while forking in Deer-Lake. The temperature clearly
increased; icebergs disappeared on the Gulf of St Lawrence. For two
days the night temperature has been positive, provided that lasts. I
stopped at the bivouac of Bellburns of the 12/05
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| En route |
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| No iceberg in Gulf of St. Laurence |
Rocky Harbour
On the way towards Rocky Harbor on Thursday, May 21 I have two joys.
While passing in front of the entry of Arches Provincial Park I
noted that the barrier was open. I committed myself there
discovering these single geological curiosities in Newfoundland.
Admittedly they are not the sculptures of
Arches National Park in the USA, but they are remarkable.
Shortly after I made a meeting of the standard third; a moose grazed
peacefully on the side and flees by hearing the humming of the
engine of my truck. I followed it prudently. In Rocky Harbor I
filled the tank with diesel at Irving then the water tank with water
at Napa. Finally at 11:30 I decided to lunch on the port then to
bivouac there. The morning was misty, rainy and windy. But around
15:00 the sun tried to bore the vapor cloud, to follow tomorrow.
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| The Arches |
En route Hwy #1
Friday, May 22 was a gloomy day. But the temperature climbed in the
day at 18°C. After Deer Lake the Transcanadian Highway #1 crosses
Newfoundland from west east to go to the capital St John's. the
traffic was relatively dense composed of trucks and private cars. It
mixes lakes at the edge of which I vainly looked for a place to
lunch then a bivouac. Alas nothing I took a ground cross-piece in
not replanted wood-cuttings. Canada enormously consumes wood for
construction of the dwellings, heating, paper mill etc. The
deforestation of this immense territory is galopping.
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| Landscape |
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| Massacre of teh forest with chainsaw |
Bivouac |
Norris Arm
Saturday, May 23 started under a fine rain while leaving the ground
cross-piece. But as the previous day the sun succeeds in boring the
layer of cloud around 14:00 and the temperature established around
13°C. After a Grand Falls-Windsor stop at Walmart and Sobeys then an
unfruitful looking for a Wifi connection in neighborhood, I took
again the road seeking a bivouac at the edge of water. Accesses to
lakes for more the share are occupied by dwellings. After a detour
to Norris Arm I saw a quay level which I could reach but inclined
like the day before. The women of the two crews with which I
travelled into Mongolia and China in 2006 would not have liked, the
wretched women!
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| Forest of birch |
Sawlogs |
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| bivouac |
The GPS tacklog
from Norris Arm to Twillingate
from 2015/05/23 au 2015/05/24
Twillingate
On Sunday, May 24 I made a detour to Lewisporte where there was a
Public Library. Alas the signal was too weak outside the building.
It was the same problem in McDo as in Tim Hortons. On the other hand
the signal was powerful at the Marina but only the yachtmen had the
code. I carried on my way until Twillingate where I looked for a B&B
for the night. Road 340 passes from island to island by causeways in
a landscape of rubble. Then I went at the Long Point Lighthouse,
closed for the season. As the previous days the sun made a timid
appearance at the beginning of afternoon. I returned to the B&B to
do the weekly job of publication of the page of my website.
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| Long Point Lighthouse |
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| Iceberg Alley |
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| Twillingate Harbour |
