#41 Twillingate Part 2

#41 Twillingate  Part 2

Friday  Aug. 9^th

Today we visited the Long Point Lighthouse built in 1876. It has been newly remodeled to handle traveling exhibits.

The Titanic Exhibit was done in a series of about 42 reader board panels. The told quite a story.   I can hardly believe I didn’t take a pic of any of those full panels.

The entry pass to the exhibit includes the name of an actual passenger or crew. Notebooks let you look up whether or not your person survived.  Lynn and I had ladies in first class, both survived.

The story reported and the truth that came out in the Enquiries.  I found this part of each story board interesting.

Derrille took the tour to the top of the lighthouse.

Right below the lighthouse is Lighthouse Ice Cream shop.  We stopped to taste their wares. 

They had some great signs posted around the interior.   If you think about ice cream like Jay, you will appreciate these posters. Thought I’d share.

We were up there another day when the fog horn sounded off every minute. It was loud!  Had to laugh at the warning sign!

The views from the lighthouse grounds.

The complex has a lovely gift shop that we explored the first day here.

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From here we traveled across the peninsula to the Durrell Museum. I took a picture of the flags to show the strong winds that were blowing, especially on top of this hill.

It has a full size polar bear that was threatening people, so they killed it.  The museum took charge to have it stuffed.

I enjoyed the exhibit on the Aux.  The artist here makes them out of cement.

I also liked the village reconstruction.

I found this interesting.  It is a fish weighing scale known as the fish jig.

The next stop was the Auk Winery.  They make about 20 kinds of wine. The Vinland white is made with wild dandelions and is said to have a crisp, light, medium sweet taste.  The Vinland red is considered full bodied with a blend of local wild blackberries and blueberries.   I think Jay got some with partridgeberry in it.

The winery also includes a restaurant and a fabulous gift shop.  I donated heavily here.

Last stop of the day was the Twillingate Heritage House with its typical period things. 

More blue willow china and the cranberry glass were in our house.

For my nephew the optician! This house was arranged by topics. This chair was part of the medical room.

Time for houses.   This yellow one stood just above the campground with a great view of the sea. The one with red trim is for sale. The beautiful garden spot is from across the street.

Friday evening there was a Gospel Concert in the RV Park.  We could enjoy without even leaving our rig.  When it started to rain, people just listened from their cars.  Not sure where all of these people came from!

Saturday  Aug. 10, 2019

We drove to the east.   In Boyd’s Cove, we visited the Beothuck Interpretation Center Provincial Historical Site.

The lovely building included a diorama and reader boards.  The film tells of the archeological dig that discovered a Beothuck village here. It is believed that the Beothucks were here in the 1700s.

This is what they think the original site may have looked like. The guys walked down to the original site.  Lynn and I didn’t want to get eaten by the black flies and mosquitoes.

Little is known about the Beothuck, but the presentation was nice.  Unfortunately we had a tour bus of 40 people join us and the noise made it hard to read and comprehend some of the information.

At Musgrave Harbour we saw a sandy beach.  At the marina Jay talked with some fishermen.

 This was the opening day for recreational cod fishing.   Jay went down on the dock to watch a man filet the fish.  The man offered us a cod, but we had no way to get it back home without smelling up the car and getting ruined in the heat.  They are allowed 15 cod per boat, I think. 

Another fisherman on the next dock was also cleaning his catch of cod.

The attraction for here didn’t look worth our time.

Another big house way out here.

Typical boulder covered coves can be found all throughout Newfoundland and Labrador.

So we drove on to Lumsden and found a beach area similar to Ocean Shores RV end or Quartzsite, AZ where people boondock in the desert. 

You can drive on the beach as with some beaches in Washington.

RVs were parked all over.  Some seemed to rent the spot. Others seemed to own the spot.  No hook-ups.

Back down the road before Musgrave Harbour we found the Banting Memorial Interpretative Center. 

It was locked up, but we could view the plane in the back and the crash remains of Sir Frederick Banting’s, co-discoverer of insulin, plane.

As we returned down the highway, both sides of the road had parked cars for maybe a mile or more. What is going on way out here away from even little towns? We stopped to ask some young ladies what is happening. We were told it was a demolition derby.

Next stop the Wetlands Interpretation Center.  This small exhibit focuses on a 1961 fire that changed the area. The yellow maps shows walking trails here through the wetlands. The guys went down their trail too.

We chatted with the three students who man this center.  We spoke of the big houses way out here.  She said she lived in a big house and when she traveled to states, and she could hardly believe how small most of the homes were. 

The next day, Sunday, was for rest and laundry. We found this poster in the laundry room. The Full Gospel Christian Fellowship held a church service in the RV Park.  Then they had a BBQ.  They also had a concert, as stated in the beginning, on Friday, Aug. 9^th .  We are close to the pavilion, so we could enjoy the Sunday gospel music and sermon from inside our rig. Nice people!

Tomorrow we head for Eastport.