August 6 Thursday 2009 St Johns
It's sunny today so off for a boat ride. We drive to Bull Bay where I will cruise with Gatheralls on a catamaran.($45) Bill decides not to go and stays behind and reads. We go to Witless Bay ecological reserve a sanctuary of off shore islands forming a huge seabird rookery. Here is home for millions of seabirds, Puffins ( the largest colony of Atlantic puffins) murres, kittiwakes and razorbills. I am struck by the sheer numbers. I see dozens of ledges,nooks and crannies filled with thousands of common murres and black legged Kittewakes. The scene looks like a condominium with balconies filled with the tennent seabirds some packed so densely that they can barely have room to turn around. I see nesting Kittewakes most setting over quarter-grown chicks too large to cover completely so that fluffs of white chicks feathers buldge out from beneath the nesting adults. There is literally no room at the inn. Next we go looking for whales. We finally find one feeding on capelin. We are now half hour late getting back. On arrival someone has a Newfoundland dog.I get my picture taken with it . Cool. We have lunch at their restaurant before heading down the rest of the Irish Loop. (hwy 10) We follow the coastline most of the way .We stop at Bear Cove to watch humpbacks feed on capelin. We finally break away and continue on. We run into thick fog just where the land flattens out and caribou are said to roam. We can't see a thing . We continue cautiously and
finish the loop. The fog clears and w
e arrive back around 4:30 . Sherri phones and we skype.
REMEMBER- Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.
It's sunny today so off for a boat ride. We drive to Bull Bay where I will cruise with Gatheralls on a catamaran.($45) Bill decides not to go and stays behind and reads. We go to Witless Bay ecological reserve a sanctuary of off shore islands forming a huge seabird rookery. Here is home for millions of seabirds, Puffins ( the largest colony of Atlantic puffins) murres, kittiwakes and razorbills. I am struck by the sheer numbers. I see dozens of ledges,nooks and crannies filled with thousands of common murres and black legged Kittewakes. The scene looks like a condominium with balconies filled with the tennent seabirds some packed so densely that they can barely have room to turn around. I see nesting Kittewakes most setting over quarter-grown chicks too large to cover completely so that fluffs of white chicks feathers buldge out from beneath the nesting adults. There is literally no room at the inn. Next we go looking for whales. We finally find one feeding on capelin. We are now half hour late getting back. On arrival someone has a Newfoundland dog.I get my picture taken with it . Cool. We have lunch at their restaurant before heading down the rest of the Irish Loop. (hwy 10) We follow the coastline most of the way .We stop at Bear Cove to watch humpbacks feed on capelin. We finally break away and continue on. We run into thick fog just where the land flattens out and caribou are said to roam. We can't see a thing . We continue cautiously and
finish the loop. The fog clears and w
e arrive back around 4:30 . Sherri phones and we skype.REMEMBER- Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art.
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