It is late in the tour boat season but we lucked out big time because we saw a couple of whales (it may have been the same one, just at a different location). It was a juvenile humpback and it was feeding right beside an island, at times coming right up beside the rocks there. The boat guide was saying they hadn't seen this before. While looking through my binoculars I saw the tail come out completely when it dived. How cool is that?
I also wanted to see puffins, which we did. These juvenile birds were too small and fast to get a photo but I was able to see them very nicely using the binoculars. We didn't really need binoculars to see them because they were swimming nearby and flying around but the binoculars were a great help
After the tour we headed into St John's where we walked the downtown, visited "The Rooms" (I think it must be the provincial museum), then toured Signal Hill.
A panorama shot of the harbour and harbour entrance from Signal Hill (photo above)
We have quickly realized that there isn't enough to keep us busy here as we had hoped so we have been looking at how to utilize our remaining time. I even phoned Westjet to see how much it would cost to come home early (too much!). Time will tell how it goes
Air Bnb contacted the host of the Bonavista house we screwed up on and requested a partial or full refund (they did this as per our request- it was a faint hope that we might get a bit back). The host said "no" as was his right to do so. Interestingly the host then left a review of us on Air Bnb. This left us in a quandary. We can't see the review until we write one (which I wasn't planning to do). What if he gives us a terrible review because of what happened? This would make us look bad and future hosts might reject us. So I wrote a review saying I couldn't give a truthful review because I paid for a night I didn't use. I also explained what happened, expressing (twice) that it was my fault and the host was within his rights to accept our reservation and charge us. His review of us said he would host us again. Hmmm
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