So today was our first rainy day for a while. We set off towards Tablelands and stopped at Woody Point for a coffee. It is a fishing harbour with a lighthouse and very charming, shame the skies were so grey! We walked right along the Main Street by the sea and looked in the gift shops.  

   The road then led high up above the town with beautiful views down the estuary and up to tablelands higher up. Snow was on the highest hills and it looked to me like the shape of moose antlers. 

 Tablelands is where the theory of the Earths plates was proved. There is a striking difference between the brown/yellow stones and rocks of the flat topped tablelands, and the rounded grey vertical rocks along the coastline. 

 Tablelands is a very different environment. It has wide valleys where the glacier has carved its way down and is full of small rounded yellow rocks, which have fallen down and been left deposited all over the valley. The views are stunning. 

  We continued to the town of Trout River where the road ends. The harbour there is lonely and has a long wooden boardwalk running right along the coastline. There are lots of holiday cabins and fishing huts dotted around with massive stores of logs for their stoves.

We followed a gravel road inland above and towards the river. There were thousands of wild flowers of different kinds amongst the trees. It was very pleasant. The rain had stopped and it was a bit brighter.

  We made our way back and then onto Rocky Harbour to the Fishermans Restaurant for a late lunch. There were lovely reflections of the rocks in Rocky Harbour and loads of tiny shells everywhere in the dark grey slatey sand.

 Well tomorrow we have a ten hour journey back to Ken and Doreen’s ! We’ll let you know we got there safely. You are 3 and a half hours ahead of us. So when we fly back from St.Johns Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning ……we should not have too much jet lag.  We are getting our bags packed finally tonight and just having stop over clothes for Monday night xxxxxxx

Really looking forward to seeing you very soon lots of love xxxx