All good plans have hiccoughs. So all flights to and from St John’s airport were cancelled due to fog and we have one more night here! The Air Canada will pay our expenses and we are now at the Holiday Inn St John’s.

Well today was very cold grey foggy and heavy clouds. We headed to St John’s and the famous George Street shops and our favourite coffee shop. After the rain stopped we headed up to Maddox Cove and Petty Harbour. We watched the waves crashing onto the cliffs and rocks ……there was quite a swell.

We headed up to Cape Spear ( the farthest East location in Canada) and were thrilled to see whales blowing from their blow holes.

There were at least 5 hump backed whales and gannets diving to get the fish. One humpback was close to the cliff where we were standing and it breached 3 times while we watched. It kept pushing its tail out of the water and we could clearly see the turquoise colour under its fins as it swam back and forth. Vince got some good pictures of the tail but we didn’t manage to photograph the  whole whale as it leapt out of the water.

     

  

  

  

 There were only 3 more people watching and we were all really enjoying the scene. We watched the whales for over an hour in the cold wind.

As we left they were still visible out at sea, they were certainly feasting on fish!

We visited a couple more inlets and then went for our tea in “Jungle Jims” to warm up. The restaurant was only 1 mile from the airport and we found out our flight was cancelled… Never mind we’re all sorted and hope for better luck tomorrow xxxxx