A cloudy day, in 50's in the morning. Only a few minutes to the ferry terminal to arrive 2 hours ahead of departure. Once in line for the ferry, we had to turn off our propane tanks, and we didn't want to run down the trailer (or car) battery on DC, so we turned the refrigerator off. The ferries now are huge: three car and truck decks and four or five passenger and cabin decks. Our reservation was too late to get a cabin, but that would have been a waste of money as the chairs in the general seating are comfortable. One of our fellow campers said they planned to spend two days in Port au Basques to recover from seasickness, but we could hardly detect motion on the ferry. 6 hours to Port au Basques. Once there we went direct to St. Andrews, about 30 miles north, where we had learned there is a 7:30 Sat. evening Mass. Turned out true. They probably have such an odd timed service to coordinate with people arriving on the ferry. But we were sure we were the only non-Newfies at the church.
Port au Basques is still a small town, with mostly small old houses, but they have one street of modern retail and fast food. Mountains and bare hills right out of town. Mtns are only 1500' but there are patches of snow .
Our campround at Grand Codroy is a few miles further north. It had been a Provincial Park on donated land from the mid-60's, but in 1997 the province decided to privatize a lot of their parks so they gave it back to the original donors, whose daughter still owns and runs the campground.
There is a folk festival this weekend, but we need to get to Corner Brook Sunday to be ready to get the trailer in for service Monday morning: propane furnace doesn't work. We have a little electric space heater and the air conditioner has a reverse cycle heat function, but if we're a place with no electric service, we need the furnace.
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