Travel Trailer Restoration

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Another beautiful day for traveling. This time we have gone a hundred miles inland Bishop's Falls, anticipating a fun time at the Salmon Festival near Grand Falls. Stop at the visitor center at Grand Falls and collected information on the salmon festival, which is considered one of the top 100 festivals in North America. The festival lasts a week and about 30,000 people are expected. The main attraction this year is the band Big Blue, and other popular rock groups of Newfoundland. The festival features a salmon dinner for 500 people and a ball, family day, and Newfie night to celebrate the particularities of Newfoundland. The cost of admission is quite high: $ 32.00 for the concert, $ 25.00 for the salmon dinner.

We went to Bishop's Falls and camped municipal campground at the base of the Fall and the hydroelectric dam. The Exploits River is known for its salmon fishing. An angler is only allowed four of the River. For a non-resident $ fishing license is 50.00 and the services of a guide. It's a bit expensive fishing. Rather catch my own fish to market.

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Now we had a choice of travel North or South. Traveling south to the Coast of Bays has been a journey of more than 150 miles. Most of the area was mountainous and forested to the Bay Area. On the south shore of Newfoundland are many fishing villages. The natives say the area is beautiful but not worth the trip. We took the road instead of other advanced Tickle. The name itself twisted imagination (you'll notice that I did not say tickle). A tickle, as the Oxford English Dictionary, is a narrow stretch of sea water usually between treacherous rocks or cliffs into a port. The true origin of the word is unknown. But neither ship was tickled both sides by narrow with rocks or sailors were delighted to go through this passage in the port of traitors when they arrived after having been tossed over the North Atlantic. Thus, the name comes to be. At the head of Tickle was a peach were we picked up fresh cod fish. The fish had been emptied and opened. Only a few bones and the skin remained. They will then be salted and preserved. We have our fish before they are salted, nine pounds of $ 2.50 per pound.

Because fresh fish, we did not want to stay too long on the tickle. There was however a little side trip we had to do: Harbor Glover. In 1879, the city entered the Guinness Book Record for the largest giant squid ever caught. This baby was over fifty-five feet long and weighed over two tons and a half. Its tentacles were thirty-five feet long. The squid has resurfaced to die. They are usually found in the depths of the Atlantic. Their only mortal enemy is the sperm whale. In the village is a center of interpretation, which attempts to depict the life of giant squid (one species themselves). Outside is a concrete replica of squid where it fell to earth a century ago.

Thursday, July 17, 2003

Today, we went to Twillingate, Iceberg Alley. We found an RV campground Peyton's Resort which has 30 amps. Converter switched and we were back in business. Twillingate is at the end of a series of islands connected by bridges. The area is known as Iceberg Alley, but very few icebergs have traveled North this year. At the northern tip of the island of Long Point Lighthouse, inhabited by Jack May and his family. They operate an interpretive center, a restaurant and gift shop. Show Guides inside the lighthouse, which is still operational. The light is fully mechanized, but the hand crank mechanism of origin of rotation still works. The lighthouse keeper had to reset time. Always at the forefront see statio.