Absolutely capital part 2!

 The 24th July started warm and got warmer throughout the day so it gave us an opportunity to potter around the trailer having a clean up in the morning before heading out after lunch. A couple of days earlier we had booked a whale watching trip from O'Brien's Tours in Bays Bulls. The tours were selling out quite quickly and even booked days ahead we couldn't book any tour earlier than 4.30pm though, on reflection, at least we were over the heat of the afternoon by then but it was still 33C when we arrived at the boat site.

Before the boat tour we drove a little further down the coast to Witless Bay. We had a boat tour that the boat guide said was an 8/10 which was good for us. 

 

 The boat was quite close to a humpback whale and the whale came right up to the stern and both sides of the boat before we had to leave it behind and continue to Gull Island to see puffins and other seabirds.

The 'white' cliffs of Gull Island

Splashdown!

Common Murres

Then it was time to call an end to the boat tour and head back to shore....

Sun goes down on our Newfoundland trip

The next day came too soon as it was the day that we say goodbye to Newfoundland until next time, we needed to check in at the ferry terminal by 3pm. We left Pippy Park around 10.30  and started the 160km drive to Argentia. Before going to Argentia we took a short detour to Pacentia around 12.50 where we had lunch at Tim's and looked around the town a little. Placentia is not much above sea level and is pretty much surrounded on all sides by water, not sure I'd want to live there in a storm surge!No pictures of Newfoundland would be complete without a picture of the boxes everyone seems to use to place their garbage at the end of the driveway to protect it from birds. After leaving Tim's and gassing up we explored the beach and stopped off at Castle Hill Historic site before heading to the actual ferry terminal.

The Stewart's bin storage (apparently)

Placentia from Castle Hill Fort

Bridge to / from Placentia

Water water on all sides, from Castle Hill Fort

Placentia beach

Ferry ready to go

Anyone for a 16 hour cruise?

We looked around the ferry terminal and bought a couple of souvenirs before boarding, settling in the cabin and getting ready for the 16 hour trip back to North Sydney which proved to be a good, non-eventful trip.