Rob-n-Hild, Eastward Ho!
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Noddy's Bay - Gros Morne National Park 385 km. 5:05 hours. Elevation maximum 94 metres) 
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| Today we left the tip of the northern penninsula and drove down the coast to Gros Morne National park. This is very interesting park - geologically - and for us a chance to stay in a weird non-tent tent thing (called an oTENTik) and do some walking in the mountains. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We kept a lookout for icebergs again as we drove down the coast as the winds have been very strong for the past two days and moved a lot of the growlers around leaving clear water in some place. There were a couple of big boys out there, but we couldn't name them as the data on the iceberg finder site was a bit out of date now. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| When we stopped to fill up Mary Jane, we were buying some biscuits and the man in the shop suggested we try Hard Bread and then had a discussion with some other people in the shop about how it should be prepared. We bought a bag and tried nibbling it as we drove (you had to nibble on broken bits as the big pieces were too hard) and then soaked some pieces in cold water for a couple of hours before adding them to our soup for dinner. The pieces were still a bit chewy (the advice had been to soak overnight and then boil), but it came out quite nice. Not the kind of bread you can make a sandwhich with, but it lasts well and we have taken to calling it lembas bread - the stuff the elves gave to Frodo and Sam in the Lord of the Rings. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We stopped for lunch at Arches Provincial Park. Here the sea has worn holes in some rocks to leave three arches with the waves breaking through. It was so windy we didn't try to make tea and just finished off the bread, cheese, ham and milk sitting in the car. It felt like we were cheating to not make tea, but it was not nice outside Mary Jane. In finishing the milk, we noticed that we had an iceberg in the carton - JJ, our cooler, was really doing a good job | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| When we got down to Gros Morne we popped in to Rocky Harbour for provisions (more milk) and then checked in. We made tea and Hild set up to do some work in our oTENTik, with her computer sitting on the pan the Hard Bread was soaking in! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| As the weather had cleared up now (it had been grey and wet as we were driving) we went for a walk after a couple of hours of work. We hadn't noticed before, but out campsite - Green Point - is a noted geological site. Because of some upheaval, the layers of rock over millions of years can be seen in the cliffside. In 2000 the global stratotype for the boundary between the Cambrian and Ordovician era was designated here because of some specific fossils. It is pretty impressive to look at these rocks and realise that each step you take covers millions of years of geoligical time! Rob found his favourite, but we don't know which million years it was.... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coming up: Exploring Gros Morne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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