We toured the Viking village at L'Anse aux Meadows which was interesting. Our tour guide grew up and played at the site as a child. He also worked on the site as a teenager helping with the excavations. He still lives in his family group of houses and the houses are visible from the visitor centre just beyond the Viking displays.
During the tour we were told "please touch and try things on" so here is a picture of "James the Blonde" smiling because he is ready to create havoc.
Today we went through a "Viking Village." Norsted is set up as if the Vikings had actually settled in the area. They have a boat repair shed, a house for living in, a church, gardens, animals and a blacksmith shop.
The other day Kathie wrote about a couple of things we haven't seen anywhere else. Below are pictures of a telephone pole with a box of rocks around it and one of the many log piles along the road.
After touring Norsted we drove from St Anthony to Rocky Harbour. It has been very windy for the last couple of days and was not getting any better so we moved south. Fall has come on very quickly here. We had a nice day or two in St John's and then the wind hit and the temperature dropped 10 degrees and it has been cool ever since.
At St Anthony and the rest of the western peninsula the wind was steady at 50 k gusting to 70+ with rain on and off. At one point the wind was lifting my windshield wipers off the windshield.
We stopped at "The Arches" no not McDonald's but a provincial park with sea worn arches in the rocks.
As we are leaving campsites here they are closing up. The place we were at last night is scheduled to close after the weekend and tonight's will close in about a week and others are already closed. Since we can go camping on Vancouver Island until Thanksgiving (or later) we were not ready for this. It also causes some problems - the dryers and regular wireless internet are not working here and they will not be fixed until the new season.
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