We drove back down the Trans Canadian highway to Corner Brook just south of Marble mountain, we found the visitor information center and got a map of the area and talked to 2 nice ladies at the center who gave us some extra information on where to find a. place for a haircut and such.

We found our way to down town Corner Brook via a detour, it’s not too big a town, but bigger tan any other town we had been in Newfoundland. It is a major port for fishing and import and export of goods. Large docks in the harbor, fishing vessels and container vessels.

I did find my place to get a haircut, Bobs is the place. I walk in and there is this girl sitting there with spiked red hair lots of earrings and lip rings with a few nose rings too. She said sit down and I did, she said what are we doing today and I said a haircut.. And a haircut is what I got! I call it the Corner Brook nufie doo, it’s quite the doo! Never had a hair cut like this, and probably never will again, but hey I’m willing to try just about anything once. After that I met up with Tom who was chatting at the local church with a few friends of Lois. We headed out of town for Lark Harbor at the end of Humber arm and the bay of islands.

What a drive, we went through Benoits cove, Frenchman’s cove, York Harbor and ended up at bottle cove for a walk in the woods and out to the sea shore. What a place, it’s the place where captain cook was from and hung out. We seen Captain cooks cave and cove from our walk around bottle cove. What a find! We were sure glad we made the trip, never seen anything like this type of sea shore with large cliffs and rock outcroppings. Much different than the USA North West or the east coast shore lines have seen. We were getting hungry and heard of a nice restaurant in lark harbor, so we headed down the road. We drove into Lark harbor and followed the signs to the restaurant and dam they were closed. So we drove around (the town is one street along the harbor) and we didn’t find anything but a gas station convince store…. LUNCH! Well it wasn’t the scallops or fish cakes we were hoping for, but hot dogs and chips were just as good by this time. They had a strange relish, kind of like a mustard relish, it kind of grows on ya. We are our lunch at the closed camp ground down the road a piece. ( video to come)

Well then it was a drive back to Deer Lake and I was not feeling well, I’ve had a cold for the last 4 or 5 days and it was not a good day for me. The camp ground was selling local plums green ones and yellow ones, so we bought a basket of each. There quite good.. Nap time! After a nap I edited some video and we did some camp chores and went to dinner at the truck stop on the Trans Canadian highway. Not bad food, I had soup and fried pork nuggets, strange combo but worked well. Tom had fish chowder and chicken nuggets. We both had pie I had apple pie that was quite different than we are use to, not sweet and a bit of cinnamon, tom had the banana cream, both were home made.

Tomorrow we head for the park and 5 days of rustic camping…