We have met a few people who mentioned Bonavista to us, and our B&B in Terra Nova is about 90 minutes from there, so we spent our first full day in this area checking out all that Bonavista has to offer.
(This was after an amazing traditional Newfoundland breakfast of toutons with butter and molasses, poached eggs, toast, yogurt, fresh fruit, bacon, and tea/coffee/juice. Yeah, we were a bit full!😀)
We first went to the Ryan Premises National Historic Site – restored buildings depicting the life of a 19th century Newfoundland fishing enterprise which was basically cod that was eaten locally as well as shipped abroad to the many Catholic countries at the time. (Remember, no meat on Fridays, no meat during lent, etc….) It was really quite interesting and we learned a lot.
We then drove to the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse which was also interesting – the lighthouse keeper had to reset the lights every 2-hours all night long – which would have been a lot longer in the winter than summer.
Close to the lighthouse is where history believes that John Cabot landed in 1497.
On our drive away from the lighthouse, we saw a couple more Humpback whales playing with some sightseeing boats (no good pics again – bummer) and made out way to Elliston to a rocky outcropping where puffin nest. We took tons of puffin pics - here are just a few.....
And a video!
So all-in-all a very good day.
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