Paul cracks open a crab claw the old fashioned way...with a Vise Grip from his toolbox.
A section of coastline in L'Ane aux Meadows, Newfoundland. In 1960, evidence that Vikings were in North America hundreds of years before Columbus was uncovered.
Archeologists excavated a small village of Vikings and their families who most likely used this spot to repair boats venturing further. Here is a recreated sod house.
Giant Dottie struggles to exit a houseful of 1000 year old domestic drudgery. She was most terrified by a loom.
Inside of a typical sod house in the year 1000. Boiling sock soup, anyone?
Let me make you one nail...it will take a couple hours..
This "complete the world circle" sculpture led us to the excavation site. The right piece by an Inuit artist and the left by a Nordic artist.
Here the moose can dance with the polar bears in peace.
Betty, bog and boulders in Nortstead, Newfoundland.
Bright red cottage with antlers in the northernmost tip of Newfoundland's northern peninsula.
A sunny early dinner at a first rate restaurant way up north.
After learning of the old viking ways all day, Paul hunkers into a earthy glob of smoked char and blue cheese salad w/ mango sections and twigs.
Dot turned away this stylish shrimp & scallop melange for a slab of gamey caribou.
Hey, what's that vw style pop top doing on an american van?
Fine new friends, Barry & Burgundy, from our provincial campground in Pistolet near L'Ane aux Meadows. We sort of saw the Northern Lights together one frosty night.
The Grenfell Centre in St. Anthony. Dr. Wilford Grenfell was a phenomenal man and national hero of Labrador & Newfoundland where he provided medical services by boat and dogsled near the turn of the century then created foundations that built hospitals and medical teaching facilities.
His family home in St. Anthony is now a museum. This wrap around porch was gorgeous.
A rabbit's paw snowshoe.
The Grenfell kitchen as it was in the 1920's
Office/study.
library.
We came across this old snow car one morning midway down the northern peninula.
Rear engine traction drive. Wild.
This beautiful rust bucket, was made by Bombardier in Quebec, the same Bombardier that invented the SkiDoo a few years later.
In Flowers Cove these "stone flowers" are called Thrombolytes which are really algae and bacteria globs resembling flowers. They are billions of years old and are very rare.
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Thrombolytes glistening in the 8am cloudy skies of Newfoundland.
The sun came out and we visited this sweet and industrious shrimping town of Port Saunders.
Betty and shrimping fleet.
Pictaresque pierside tugboat pull.