Day 24 – September 13

Somehow our wishes have been answered even though it’s Friday the 13th! Fog early in the morning but when it burned off….bright blue skies and sunny and it lasted for the entire day.

Drove through Lewisport to Boyd’s Cove and visited the extremely interesting Beothuk Interpretive Center. The Beothuk were a society that used ochre to cover themselves, hence the colloquial name “red skins”, and were inhabitants of this part of Newfoundland prior to Europeans arriving on the scene. A combination of disease, competition with Europeans and starvation resulted in the society becoming extinct in the early 19th century.

Benches at the Beothuck Center. Each bench has a Beothuck word and the corresponding English word cut into it. When the sun is right, each word shows up as a shadow on the ground.

Cultures of Newfoundland showing the Beothuk as thriving from about 1500 AD to the early 19th century.

We then went up around Summerford and had lunch at the most delightful spot so far. Mary had a seafood chowder and I had a crab (caught this morning) sandwich on a soft kaiser with home fries and a St. John’s beer.

After lunch we proceeded to Twillingate where we went to a museum of the life in that particular outport. Not my favourite but we did find out about an opera singer from Twillingate, Georgina Sterling, who travelled to Paris to study and audition. She adopted the stage name of Marie Toulinguet when she was singing in the Paris Grand Opera. Later in her career she damaged her voice and was unable to return to the operatic stage.

Later went to the lighthouse at the end of the road in Twillingate.

Mary at the lighthouse. I like the curvilinear architecture.

Lands end at the Twillingate lighthouse.

And then passed by a famous provincial park on the way back to Bishop’s Falls.

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