Labrador

We decided to go see Labrador while we have the chance. It is only a one and a half hour ferry ride and the cost was not much, $17.25 for Ernest and car and $7.50 for me (each way). We stayed in a Bed & Breakfast in Red Bay, about 60 km from the ferry which is where the pavement ends and the (dirt) gravel road begins. In the 1500's the basque whalers had established a major whaling enterprise and Saddle Island in the Red Bay was the centre of the operation. More than 1000 men worked at Red Bay harvesting right and bowhead whales. There is a shipwreck on the beach on Saddle Island that was raised from the bay and I think they said there are three more ships sunken there but they are leaving them where they are. I like the way they fence their gardens. This garden below is fairly close to the house but there are a lot of gardens planted along the highway and not very close to the town or their homes. I guess they are just watered by rain and the fence keeps the Moose out although it does look very strong. Maybe the moose do not eat potatoes, beets, etc. because that is what they mostly plant (root veg.) I will put the photos of the highway gardens in the Newfoundland Blog because they plant the same way here and I have some photos of them.

We saw five Icebergs so that was exciting for us. The "bergs" are not huge but big enough to be exciting to us. Their color changes depending on how the sun is shinning on them.

As usual we spent most of our time looking at the barrens and then snooping through the little villages here. The barrens are full of ground cover type plants and some berry producing plants.