There was some kind of salmon festival and lots of fiddling music in Grand-Falls-Windsor so we got out of town fast and took the road up Bonivista Peninsula. Again we are at a lost for words to describe the beauty of this province, it seems that every turn in the road bring something new and better. Diane calls this area a photographers paradise, Keith calls it a drivers nightmare, some of the hills and curves are white knuckles both hand on the steering wheel type driving and looking at the scenery at the same time. Add to that the wind is always blowing about 30-40 knots and NFLD doesn't spend much money on road repairs.
Back to Bonivista, along the way we see villages named Sweet Bay, Tickle Cove, Open Hall and Birchy Bay, finally we come to Cape Bonivista and Dungeon Provincial Park.. It seems that John Cabot also stopped here in 1492, we wondered why he would want to go to all the trouble to climb those cliffs and rocks just to plant a flag.
The cape has a really nice working lighthouse and close by is Dungeon Provincial Park.
We think that God our creator was at His best when He put this place together. There are rock formation here that are spectacular mostly beyond description, the dungeon is a hole about 200 feet across and about the same deep and there are two caves that are connected underground to the ocean and the waves come crashing in through the caves. It is really mesmerizing, one could stand all day and marvel at it. The entire area is massive rock formations, pounding waves, deep blue ocean and very windy.
We took a slow leisurely drive back to the TCH and toward St. John's and stopped at a nice campground for the weekend.
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