Twillingate-Bonavista Road Trip with Mom & Dad B. - September 2025

This is a short postlude, to show some photos of Mom and Dad's 2025 gardening efforts, as well as the trip back home to Halifax. There are 32 different items in Dad and Mom's 'Garden 2025', from berries and fruit trees to vegetables. This is quite incredible for a couple of their age! Apples Pears I was up at 4AM and out the door just after 4:30AM, to drive to St. John's for my flight home.  Wary of moose, it was great to have a full moon to brighten the sky. The sun had just risen when my Porter Airlines flight took off at 6:53AM.  This is the view of Windsor Lake, which provides St. John's with its water supply. Kelly's Island in Conception Bay, as seen shortly after take-off from St. John's.

It was another early rise and another breakfast of ham and eggs in the AirBNB. It was 10AM when we pulled out of the driveway in Bonavista. After some sights in the historic fishing community, we headed to Cape Bonavista (famous for its lighthouse and known as the landing site of John Cabot in 1497). From there, it was on to The Dungeon Provincial Park, Elliston to see cellars and puffins, and then a drive along the Bonavista Peninsula's east coast to visit English Harbour and Trinity.   By the time we arrived back in Clarke's Beach at 5PM, we had driven over 1100KM from Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon. The visit packed a lot of distance, visits, and sights into 56 hours, especially for a 93-year old and an 85-year old!  But Mom and Dad were troopers about it all, and they seemed to have thoroughly enjoyed the trip.  Of course, trips require time to process.  And the beauty of a blog is that it serves as an aid for processing places and visits for years t...