July 16

Our first full day in Newfoundland, which is pronounced found-land, not fundland. Most of us pronounce it wrong, so we have been trying to catch each other to make sure we are saying it right.

Newfoundland is basically a lot of rock that was pushed together back when the ice was moving away and Mother Nature was pushing stuff around making mountains out of mole hills…a long, long, long time ago. On top of about half of this rock is an inch or two of soil that’s been blown in from somewhere else, and it doesn’t have much in the way of nutrients, so not too much grows here.

Adults:

Took our time getting up as we were to spend the day at the campground.  Woke up around 11am.  By 11:30 I was sitting up front drinking my coffee and noticed some of our group leaving.  I immediately contacted the tail gunner to see what  going on.  I found out that while we were sleeping the plan was changed and we WERE moving to the next stop.  It seems everyone was told before they went to sleep except us and one other rig. (we were told the could not find us in the dark)  We were the only two left in the park as the tail gunner left.  We were both quite upset, but got ourselves moving and actually had a pleasant drive to the next stop.  The tail gunner told me he was going to knock on our door before he left.  Can you imagine waking up to hear  "we all left, see  ya!!!"  I was very upset with him!!!  However he apologized later that day and all was fine again.

Our first full day in Newfoundland, which is pronounced found-land, not fundland. Most of us pronounce it wrong, so we have been trying to catch each other to make sure we are saying it right.

We are camped in Rocky Harbour, which is actually in Gros Mourne National Park. We moved from the campground we landed in last night to this one this morning.

Newfoundland is basically a lot of rock that was pushed together back when the ice was moving away and Mother Nature was pushing stuff around making mountains out of mole hills…a long, long, long time ago. On top of about half of this rock is an inch or two of soil that’s been blown in from somewhere else, and it doesn’t have much in the way of nutrients, so not too much grows here. There are some deeper pockets of soil here in the National Park, so there are some forests here, but the root system is very shallow.

Given the lack of sleep the last couple of nights, we decided to just hang out and relax, I’m sure it will be an early night for us!