I am learning that the weather here is very changeable, both in short amounts of time and over short distances. We started a trip north along the west coast of Newfoundland in a drizzle. Soon the sun began to make an appearance.
As we drove up along this sparsely populated coast we weren’t sure what the day would bring.
Things brightened up and we decided to stop at Port au Choix. There is a Parks Canada Historical Site…
just past the little town.
There was nothing to see archeologically except some depressions in the ground left where the houses of some Dorset people lived about 2000 years ago. But it was a lovely cape,
complete with the (faded) red Parks Canada Adirondack chairs.
There was more to see if we would have walked a couple of miles, but with our limited time we were happy just to walk the rocks at the beach.
They were full of fossils, including this one, which I think is an ammonite.
This was growing at the site and when I looked it up I was excited to find it is Golden Root, Rhodiola rosea, and is an Arctic perennial.
But the best thing was, we saw a caribou! You are supposed to keep your distance from them, but this one wasn’t keeping its distance from us.
We continued north and the day got darker.
There were openings in the clouds, but we never reached them.
By the time we got to the campground the sky was solid gray, which went pretty much for the campground, too.
But there were spots of color.
And the most important thing is that blue dot is us, way, way up north.
On the Roam Again 