Friday July 29, 2016 Rocky Harbour, Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada

This was a down day with no activities planned until dinner followed by a show.
We slept in.  The other caravan group was mostly gone before I made our coffee.
The park internet was off, so I had to use our Jet Pack to post yesterday's blog.

We decided to drive up the coast and see the site of the S.S. Ethie's beaching and then go on to the lighthouse at Cow's Head.

After the Ethie was beached she was stripped of everything the company could save.  The wreckage on the beach looked nothing like a steamship.  All that remains are some large steel parts of machinery. We did find a cache nearby.  But it was up a mud bank and we couldn't reach the container.  I took a picture and claimed the find.

Not the SS Ethie but just as wrecked

Not the typical house in Cow's Head,
this one is much cuter

We drove on to Cow's Head.  We had moose burgers at the Back Cove Cafe.  We drove toward the lighthouse but the sign at the trail head said it was a 50 minute walk.  We started back to Rocky Harbour.  We did find a cache in Cow's Head.  The container was cracked and everything was wet inside.  I put a pill bottle and new log in the old container.  It may keep the log dry until the owner can replace the larger container.

Our last stop on the way back was at a view point where there were two red Adirondack chairs.  The park service put out 14 pairs of the chairs at various lookout points around the park.  There was a contest to see who sat in all 14 first.  The winner got, you guessed it, a pair of red chairs.
















At 8 we attended a performance by Anchors Aweigh.  They are a local band that have appeared at the Oceanview Hotel for 20 years and they played traditional and modern Newfoundland music.  Modern in that some of the songs were fairly recently written.  The band was very lively and had a lot of audience participation.  The show ended at 11.