Here’s last night’s sunset:
We got up to sunshine and decided to explore Flower’s Cove. Three hours later, we had seen the beautiful lighthouse:
an Anglican church, named the Skin Boot Church since the funds were raised from the sale of donated sealskins that were made into boots:
…and the Catholic Church:
and two cemeteries. The saddest headstone was for three young children, ages 2, 6 and 8, who had all died in 1880 within days of each other. We wondered what illness took these young lives:
We crossed The Marjorie Bridge, originally erected in the early 1900’s, to join communities:
It and the boardwalk lead to a Thrombolite “garden”.Thrombolites are these rounded rocks (they say like buns) that can only be found here and in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Fascinating:
After a disappointing Cod and Chips lunch (more will have to come now), we drove up and through a few more coves, then sought the endangered “ Long’s Braya”, which is supposed to be found in Shoal Cove. We saw the signs, were told they bloomed late June, and we didn’t see anything.
BUT in Shoal Cove, we did see scores of stretchers with sealskins drying (once in a lifetime I’m sure):
We went through Nameless Cove (favourite name so far) and came back to our trailhead campsite for another night.
Here’s this morning’s view from my chair:
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