So our last day at Pouch Cove arrives, as usual I wake with the sun, and the cockerel, at 5.30, I loaded yesterday's photos onto Flickr, cleared my e-mails, showered, dressed and went out into the garden by about 7.00. Breakfast was at 8.00, we paid and had said our goodbyes by 8.40.
As the main object of today was to get to ferry in Argentia by 2.00 we looked to see where we might go en-route so as not to arrive to early. We had been told about the Cape St Mary's bird refuge, so decided it would be a nice place to visit. However about 30 miles away from the cape we came into fog. It wasn't the thickest fog we had seen, but when we turned into the small entrance road to the cape for the last 7 miles it got really foggy to the extent that we had to travel very slowly and rely on others doing the same. We got to the visitors centre to the sound of a fog-horn, so while we were able to read about the work they are doing there we were advised not to take the 1K walk out to the view area as it was dangerous in this weather. We took the advice and left.
We stopped for lunch at the Atlantica Inn in a pretty sea-side town of St Bride's. As ever while the place looked rough and ready, the food was good and the toilets were exceptionally clean. For lunch I had the 'Pork Chop Dinner' and Drew had the 'Turkey Dinner'. Both were really lovely and, like everywhere in Newfoundland, it was clear the food was being cooked from scratch and could not be rushed. The dinners were the meat, fries and gravy, peas, broccoli and green beans, and cranberry sauce for Drew. Both meats were cooked to perfection and really tasty.
We went on to the ferry port and arrived at the terminal at 1.30 to check in.
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