There was a choice of a couple of titles for today but I’ll stick with this one as it’s the most family friendly one! Today started out wet, foggy, cloudy, drizzly and anything else that involves liquid precipitation. We had a leisurely breakfast and then set out for Grand Bank, about 350km away, to position ourselves for the ferry to St. Pierre tomorrow.
Our first stop was a quilt shop, number one error, it is closed on Tuesdays! We continued on through the wet, luckily there times when the visibility was good so we got to see our surroundings! The picture below was not taken during one of those times.
Much like yesterday, the scenery was constantly changing although driving in the rain was a little more challenging; there was a lot of standing water on the road that would cause the car to aquaplane without warning. At the turn off from the Trans Canada highway we stopped for lunch having our now usual meal of seafood chowder or Newfoundland pea soup.
As we progressed the rain became a little more intermittent and there were signs of the clouds lifting. We decided maybe our luck was changing, so we stopped for a spot of geo-caching. It seems we are doomed not to find Newfoundland caches as this one also seemed to be missing in action.
We continued down the road a little and stopped for another cache, this time we found it!
By now the rain had stopped and there was blue sky on the horizon, maybe our luck was changing (again)? We drove beyond where our B&B was to see where we needed to go for the ferry. We found the office and decided to go in and confirm the sailing times. As soon as we mentioned our names, we knew something was wrong. We were told that the office had been trying to contact us to let us know that the ferry was cancelled due to forecast high winds. This was not good news, as it meant we had effectively wasted two days and 700km of travel as the next ferry would be in a weeks time. We were then informed that the company was going to run a “special” trip on Thursday to make up for the cancellation, this would just about fit into our plans, although it would mean a late night trip back to St. Johns on Thursday evening.
Finally we headed off to the B&B expecting the worse after our day of mishaps. We were pleasantly surprised, the house was right on the waterfront and was ….. well see the pictures below:
Bedroom
Bathroom (with LARGE claw-foot bath)
Sitting Area
View From Balcony
There were two other couples staying here, one from the UK and the other from Newfoundland. We soon found ourselves sitting out on the balcony with them drinking our G&T’s. The B&B also has a restaurant, which I don’t think was open, but our host offered to cook an evening meal for all of us. A pleasant evening was had over a meal of baked cod.