It was an amazing day today! We started with the Western Brook Pond boat tour into the fjords of the park. One of the ads from Newfoundland Tourism that entices you to come here, shows someone on a high cliff looking down at the water. What they don't tell you about that ad is that the person has been flown into that spot - it's nearly impossible to climb up to it! The weather was chilly but sunny, and the views and the mountains were spectacular!
While on the boat we spotted our first moose up one of the mountains! Apparently there are more moose than people here. There are many accidents involving moose and cars on the highway, especially after dark. And they're especially plentiful on the northern penninsula, where we're heading tomorrow!
In the evening we attended a concert which was part of a series of music that was playing all week entitled Trails, Tales and Tunes. A Cape Breton group called Còig was featured, and as Michael has all their CD's we knew they'd be great. There was also a duo from Peterborough (one played drums and the other played about 5 instruments), a comedian from the island and a singer-songwriter from Labrador. Although I wish that Còig could have played all night, it was interesting to have the variety of the other acts, all of whom were good. The singer obviously had grown up in an isolated area, and his songs reflected those experiences. Because we have seen a lot of places on the island, we could relate to some of the jokes that the comedian was making about the sites here. While waiting in line to get in, we chatted for a while with the locals, and in a way I almost envied their sense of community, familiarity, and the way they look out for each other. One thing that's been told to us many times, is that Newfoundlanders always come home. They may move away for a while, or commute to Fort Mac, but they always come home. The sea is in their blood, and their family ties are strong.
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