This morning after having a great chat at the breakfast table with three other well traveled couples we hit the road westward toward Deer Lake (two hours away). Funnily enough while using Tim Horton's wi-fi to make our evening sleep accommodations one of the breakfast couples walked in. We took their advice to reserve their favourite motel in Rocky Harbour (in Gros Morne Park). With that job completed (and a boat tour registration for Saturday) we headed south for an eventual drive on a twisty, turny, poor condition secondary highway to a small port called Lark Harbour (west of Corner Brook; afterwards to a another port called McIvers (photo above) on a different highway across the water from the previously traveled one. We probably averaged no more than 50 km/hour for the two hours of coastal driving. We noted there was a big cruise ship in Corner Brook.
About 6 PM we made it into Rocky Harbour and after getting our motel room for the next two nights we went to a well known local eatery called Earles. It was so busy we waited over 40 minutes for a table and even after we were finished there was still a lineup. We decided to try more local food.
The meal includes seafood chowder (Cod,halibut and scallops), moose and veggies meat pie with homemade fries (I assume the moose was not from road kill!), and Newfoundland beer made from 20,000 year old ice. It was a good meal.
As the sun set I snapped the following photo
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