The Moose and King's Point

 

Since we’d been in Newfoundland for a couple of days and we still hadn’t seen a moose, I’d bought a stuffed moose, and called him Seamus (Shay-moose).  

Then we saw one in the ditch munching on the bushes just as we left the L’Anse aux Meadows Park.  Cool.

Then we saw one ----- hit our truck.  Yup, we had the true Newfoundland experience.  It was raining, the road was slick, and the moose just kept on coming out of the bush even though I yelled at it to stop. 

We stopped to check what happened.  The moose got up, shook off hundreds of flies and ambled back into the bush.  “He didn’t even apologize!” said Dave.  The truck suffered a broken headlight and a few more dents on the hood.  It was still driveable so on we went to Port au Choix as planned.

The next morning, Dave began looking into getting the truck repaired.  The one Auto Body said, “You can drive it fine until you get home to Fort McMurray!”  I guess with our Alberta plates that’s the assumption!

 

King’s Point

We weren’t feeling the greatest and were somewhat off our stride after the Moose Encounter so we decided to find somewhere to hibernate for a while.  We were making our way across to the eastern side of Newfoundland, when we suddenly felt done for the day.  We looked on AirBnB and within an hour we had a place in King’s Point.  What a beautiful spot to sit and do nothing much for a bit.  It was just what we needed. 

King’s Point was a beautiful little village along a calm sea at the end of a long bay.  You could look down into the water and see crabs crawling around and a jellyfish popping up to the surface and schools of little fish swimming around.  Later in the day we saw a minky whale fin come up a few times!  That was so exciting to catch a glimpse of a whale right in the bay, not off a whale watching tour.

In this Come Home 2022 year, it seems there's been a budget for sprucing up the waterfront fishing sheds and adding other attractive features in the little villages. 

Almost at the end of the road from King's Point, at Rattling Brook, was a short waterfall hike.  It was a beautiful walk through the forest.  Imagine the tenacity of the tree to grow its roots around a huge boulder. 

But we must carry on.  There's still a lot of Newfoundland left to see!