August Pictures

On Aug 1, we were standing on a shore cliff near Twillingate Newfoundland, when we spotted a fishing boat coming in and crossing in front of a small island.

 

 

 

Same boat, about to dock in Twillingate

Aug 5: Norris Point

On Aug 6, we rode a boat tour of a lake near Gros Morne National Park

 

On Aug 10, we visited the L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, near the northern tip of Newfoundland.  It includes a simulated 11th-century Viking seashore camp.

Metal art of Viking scouting party

Role-playing Vikings

Mom And Pop chairs in Viking living room

Apprentice blacksmith pumping bellows

Aug 12

Aug 16

Lobster Cove Head, Rocky Harbor

Aug 19 at the Newfoundland Insectarium in Reidville

July Pictures

By July 1, we reached Maine in preparation to spending July 4 at Bar Harbor.  We had been there before, and had enjoyed the nice hillside view of the harbor and the great fireworks display.

A hike in Arcadia National Park

On the 4th, two sailboats offered rides in the Atlantic

Live music before the fireworks

Rocks adjacent to beach near Bar Harbor, with dog

Sharp!

Next, we crossed the border into New Brunswick, and drove up to Sydney Nova Scotia to take a ferry to our main destination Newfoundland.

This ferry took us to Arcadia Newfoundland

Cannons at Castle Hill near Placentia helped defend the French from the British, and then vice-versa.

Lonely!

Botwood NL features many murals.

We found a habitat housing many beavers on Woolford's Pond near Lewisport NL.

Mates?  Mother and child?  Can't tell the beavers without a program!

Lighthouse and cliffs near Gros Morne National Park

June Pictures

After our grandson's graduation, we spent June in New England playing tourist.  

Mayflower 2, like the one on which the Pilgrims came over

Plymouth Rock, onto which the Pilgrims probably didn't step

FWIW, Craig's first computer was an IBM 1620.

We visited a garden on Cape Cod, but can't remember its name

Can't think of a story about this that doesn't involve what you're thinking of

Hampton Beach NH was having its annual sand sculpture contest

Just a water lily somewhere in New England

Once you've selected the pictures, placing them in the post is easy!

May Pictures

Since Merikay hasn't posted in this blog since May, but we both continued to take pictures through most of our summer transcontinental trip, Craig is posting the best of the images, in five monthly installments.  

Seeing these posts will be easier if you have either of two things: fast Internet access or a lot of patience.  Preferably both!

Our hiking trail went over the bridge, but the creek had flooded.

 

 

 

Chapel in the forest

The Mississippi River looked pretty normal, as we crossed it going east.

This was about as close to a bear as we have ever been!

Scenic dead tree in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Craig on ramp to an observation tower in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Our grandson Jeremy and his friend Sreya at MIT graduation.

Both very high in academic standing.

MIT graduation ceremony, May 27 2022