We wanted to have a easy weekend, not too much driving or travel so we chose to tour the southern Avalon peninsula. We saw a salmon run and a area where the salmon stop to acclimatize themselves between salt and fresh water. Unfortunately for the salmon someone told the seals about it and they come in and have a feast.There are a few less salmon when the seals leave.
Further down the road we stopped at a fishing village named St. Vincent and spent two hours there talking with some of the locals. The majority of the people they are pensioners, most of them have been there all their lives and many don't drive. There is no store ,no bank, no gas station, no clinic, no nurse. There is one person who makes a 5-6 hour round trip to St. John's twice a week to pick up supplies, gets their groceries do banking and whatever. Of those who are younger, most of the men work in Alberta and make the 6000km drive twice a year, the wives stay in NFLD. Only a few people now fish and just a few days a month. There are only 3 kids in the village, they are bussed 45 minutes in school. Yet everyone we talked to seem happy and planned to stay, maybe they are happy because the men are away making big $$$ in the oil fields or maybe just happy they are away. We did have a great homemade lunch there of pea soup with bun, fresh from the oven cinnamon bun and coffee, then got a couple of lemon squares for evening snack. All that for $13.
Continuing on up the next hill we were surprised at the change in scenery, instead of the trees, hills and more of the same we found a plateau that was fairly flat, grassland, no trees , no houses and no people. Just grass growing in gravel. It is called 'THE Barren"' and is as wide as we could see and about 30 kms long. It was a pleasant change from what we had been seeing the last few days.
The Southern Avalon is not near as hilly as we have been used to, just a nice pleasant, restful day and time left to do some reading and catch up on some news.
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