Wild Lands - Early Settlements
1930 Saturday, July 9

You did not hear from me yesterday. You may not have heard; but, Rogers Communications, the biggest Internet and communications provider in Canada, had major outages yesterday, impacting most of the country. 911, debit cards, Internet services and more were impacted. Anyway, I am back with you today.

I went off on a drive headed for the point at the far side of Conception Bay. The journey took me past fishing outports and spectacular land and seascapes. My photos are numerous. I thought I would pick two to share with you. First, and shown above, was a beautiful, natural arch in dark, rocky shore of Conception Bay near the small village of Burnt Point. The drama of this palce is part of wht draws me to it. Around each headland, across each bay, new vistas reveal themselves that leave me in awe. Newfoundland does not disappoint in natural beauty.
My second photo is of a traditional saltbox house in the town of Cupid, Newfoundland. It wss here in this place in 1610 that the first English settlement in Canada began. In August of that year, Bristol merchant John Guy arrived at what was then called Cupers Cove, later called Cupids. They farmed, fished and traded for furs with the indigenous Beothuk peoples of this land. this aare of the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland would later be called the English Shore. There is a "Cupids Legacy Center" museum which I need to return to one of these days.

In other news, night before last had heavy rains, amidst what has been an unusually nice stretch of weather. When I stepped on deck I found the cockpit filled with water, fresh rainwater. t turned out the mechanic, after I showed him the seacock to shut off seawater for cooling the engine, decided to poke through other areas of the boat. Without my knowledge, he had closed the two seacocks that allow the deck and cockpit drains to run into the sea. So, every drop of rain that fell on the deck flowed into the cockpit. The level rose above the instrument panel and ignition for the engine and flowed through that. The mechanic feels that since it was fresh water and no power was on, the panel should be ok. I won't really know until the engine is back in the boat and the panel is reconnected. Two steps forward, one step back... Hoping for the best. More fun to write about the landscape and history than boat issues...

Bill
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