Newfoundland, Whew. Yesterday we left PEI and today we are just outside Port a Basque, NFLd. It has been a long haul as we wanted to get to NFLD before it gets to cold. We got into Nova Scotia and were greeted by the pipes and we drove over to Sydney on Cape Breton Island. 8 hr travel day. We don't do many of those. Tomorrow we will be in Gros Morne National Park, finally catching up to the family we met in North Dakota. We will probably head up to the 1000 yr old Viking settlement they found in St. Anthony's. We are now 4 and a half hours ahead of BC time.

After being on an Atlantic ferry I have a new appreciation for the great job BC Ferries does. Ferry to NFLD, $ 265.00. Food expensive and worse than BC Ferries if you can believe that. Ferry old and stinks. Keep up the good work BC. The live entertainment was a nice distraction though. There were a a lot of sea sick people on this ferry. Pretty calm day too. Sure would have been ugly if it had been a bad day.

We are looking forward to spending the next 2 or more weeks here and I think it is going to be really neat. Sure is purdy.

Canadiana:One third of all Canadians rely on the Great Lakes for their water.

MacIntosh apples, or Mac's, make up close to 50% of of Canada's apple crop. They are the only apple grown in every one of the 5 apple growing disticts.