Thursday, August 28, 2008

Corner Brook, Newfoundland

W got up to a beautiful day with our only neighbor a seagull on the rocks below our parking space. We got off to a leisurely start and made our way back down The Viking Highway to where it intersects the Trans Canada at Deer Lake where we stopped for lunch and a visit to the Deer Lake Insectarium.
The mounted displays are very informative but everyone comes to visit the butterfly house. The insectarium receives 700 chrysalis (chrysalii ?) a day that hatch into butterflies within hours. They land on you as you walk around and are very active. Sue did a great job of doing a self portrait!

We then headed 30 miles down the TCH to Corner Brook, the second largest city in Newfoundland after St Johns and the commercial center of the west coast and the pulp paper business. We are parked at the Marble Mountain Ski Resort 4 miles east of Corner Brook.

The campground here is quite old, the sites way too small for the Tradewinds, and the electricity is barely enough to keep the batteries charged. The reason it is a great place is that it has WIFI, a Tim Hortons about 300' from our door, and above our heads is a six section zip line across the ski mountain that we are signed up for in the morning. Sue is ecstatic!