Yesterday we did the south coast of Labrador. We started at red bay national historic site. We took a boat across to the island did a bit of a hike and read the sign boards as we went. We then went through the museum at our own pace. It was quite interesting reading and seeing what was clearly a huge whaling operation in the 15th century. The amount of rendering ovens for the whale fat was staggering.

We then drove down the coast looking for lunch. Eventually one person working at the hotel front desk next to a closed restaurant told us their is a robins donuts here, a bakery 1.5 towns up, and a restaurant connected to our hotel quite a ways up the coast. We went to robins. We then went to the tourist information centre to find things to do. She told us about a couple things that were already on my list. We then drove up the coast noticing everything else on my list was closed presumably forever. Ww couldn't even find a gift shop. I ended up getting seal skin Christmas ornaments at the ferry terminal a child setup a table selling them.

We then tour the lanse amour lighthouse. Which is the tallest light house in Atlantic Canada.

We walked a trail nearby where we saw the wreck of the hms Raleigh. It was the British Atlantic flagship when it ran aground here in 1922. It was a cruiser I believe. They left it there until all the stuff was off it and the blew up what remained in 1926. It was pretty cool to see all the remnants.

We also saw the oldest burial mound in North America. Not much fan fare there but there were a couple signs.

We then headed back to our hotel watching for anything else that might be interesting to see or do. The few look offs that were there were beautiful though.

Today we are taking an earlier ferry back to Newfoundland and we are headed to 4 nights in grid morne so it will be nice to get settled in the camper that hopefully has a view.

Oh I nearly forgot. We saw beavers and bunnies when we were driving. And after our hike when sitting in the car we saw a whole bunch of seals hunting together. They kept swimming into shore in lsarge circles. There were two maybe three groups of them. There were definitely more than 30 seals total.