July 22

After leaving Gros Morne on Wednesday we continued north on the only highway on the northern peninsula. We stopped at the ''Arches', where over time the waves have washed out the softer rock and left 4 huge arches about 35 feet high at the water's edge. We stopped and visited Cow's Head, it is on a perfectly round cove on the gulf, don't know about the name. We stopped off highway for the night miles from anywhere. It was a perfectly clear night so got up at 3:00 am the do some star gazing. The milky way was incredibly clear and the sky seemed so close. Hoping we get some clear night later. The temp was 53F.

On Thursday morning we went on to Point au Choix There is a Indian burial ground there that is several centuries old and there is a unique limestone barrens and some plants that are found no where else in the world. Apparently 4 or 5 different cultures have lived on this site in the past.

The great northern peninsula here is about 60-70 km wide, we crossed toward the east side towards St. Anthony.

We have seen in the last couple of days vegetable gardens planted at the side of the highways right up to the pavement, and wondered about that. We stopped where a couple of women were working their garden and to talk, they said that no one would want a garden in their yard , they visit during the summer to tend it and harvest in the fall and no one every touches anyone else's garden. We did notice that it looked like good dirt that had been hauled in when the highway was built.
We also have seen all over the province piles of wood mostly cut to stove size stacked and sitting by the road side. We were told that a person only needed a permit and they are allowed to cut all the wood they wanted and they cut in the winter, hauled it out to roadside and leave it all summer to dry then take it home to burn for heat the next winter. Sounds like cheap heat to us. Again no one takes any of the wood. Good honest folks to be sure.
It seem everyone in NFLD, outside the cities, has a pickup, a ATV and a snowmobile and burns wood.
We drove to 'LÁnse aux Meadow, another world heritage site were the Vikings settled over 1000 years.The park was closing so we did a walk about the area and will return in the morning. Found another great fish and chip dinner and stopped for the night.