Day 79 Last Day Newfoundland Tour 6th July 2015
By Mel
The morning spent wending our way back to Deer Lake, with a couple of stops including a pizza and pasta buffet lunch at the Torrent River Inn in Hawke’s Bay.
The major stop for the day was to see the Thrombolytes – which I imagined as small things embedded in rocks. What we found were large rocks, that looked a bit like scones along the shore. As described by Chris and Richard: Living but not quite. Fossil but not quite. Difficult to comprehend. Strangely Tony explained the only other place they are found is in Western Australia. About 650 millions years old it felt a little criminal (but fun) to walk on them.
For many the bus trip was spent preparing for the final entertainment – this time provided by us. Tony had set the scene on Day 1 that we would be presenting in song, poetry or other form what we had got from our trip. Ours was a Newfoundland version of “Waltzing Matilda”.
After lunch the naughty corner at the back of the bus swelled as Tony, then Cheryl joined us.
After lunch we stopped at Arches Provincial Park – limestone arches surrounded by a beach of many coloured rocks. Chris loved the variety of rocks along the shore line and trying to capture the perfect shot (see the header photo above)
Back to the Holiday Inn – Oh Dear! My least favourite but a bonus the drier is not in pieces on the floor.
After dinner – our presentations and what entertainment it was. Each presentation was very different, original, and all were great fun. Eldad a dedicated bird watcher read a poem that ended with a rapid fire listing of all 68 birds he had sited, adding a 69th he had seen late in the day. Mary had alphabetically ordered highlights of the trip. Richard and Ann had created a game of Puns: matching sentences with Newfoundland words and sayings – this was beyond most of our figuring abilities at this stage, but clever, and they were persistent even when blank faces abounded. Ours was a song to the tune of “Waltzing Matilda”.
