Twillingate

We left from Clarenville this morning to drive up to Twillingate. We had heard many a good thing about potential icebergs and just a nice place. They claim to be the iceberg capital of the world! In my research I found there are a couple of icebergs in the vicinity, but you had to take a charter to get to them. But, they showed a lighthouse that can be a good viewing spot for icebergs (in season I suppose) and whales.

The weather was overcast with quite a bit of low clouds. It was misting off and on. We made our way north and the scenery was nice as usual. We finally made it up to the light house and saw no icebergs (as expected), nor any whales. Oh well, the view was nice, albeit a bit obscured by low hanging clouds. As we started to leave it was starting to rain a bit, so Johnny and I put on our rain jackets. Soon after getting started, it started raining. Not a gully washer, but solid soaking rain. After a while, Johnny asked if we saw a place with an overhang, could we stop so he could put on his rain pants. Nothing appeared for at least half an hour. By then we were both on our laps and legs, but put on the rain pants anyway. By the time we got back to the TCH (Tran Canadian Highway), the rain was lightening up a bit, but still going. We finally found a little hotel and called it quits early for the day. There is stuff spread out all over the room as it dries (or at least we are hoping they completely dry. The weather forecast is clear tomorrow, so little chance for rain and even maybe, dare I say it, some sun!

We will head towards Gros Morne National Park and make our way up to Labrador. There is about 81 kilometers of paved road and dang it, we plan to ride it :)