Twillingate

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I drove down the northwest finger of Newfoundland and am now starting down the eastern side of the island.  This stop is at Twillingate.  The main attraction we saw here was the Prime Berth Twillingate Fishery and Heritage Center.  Captain Dave has collected all things about the fishing profession and put it in several little fishing buildings.

The red building labeled A Whale Tale was his father’s “stage” where they would bring in the fish and process them. To the left of the stage is a skeleton he got from a whale that washed up on shore and died.  He also takes out fishing tours on his boat.

He gave a demonstration about how fish were processed.

Captain Dave did a live demonstration, but also had these dummies set up. I don’t know who did the faces, but all the eyes were bugged out like that. Pretty scary.  One man cuts the throat and splits belly open, the next takes out the guts.  The third will cut the fillets from the fish.
He showed us the special pieces they might take out. The mess on the top right is the guts. These are thrown back in the ocean for the fish and lobsters to eat. Lower right are the cod cheeks, cod tongue and I don’t remember the third. The top right are bones that come out of the ears. You can tell the age of the cod with these ear bones, like reading the age of a tree by its rings. They make earrings out of the ear bones and sell them in their gift shop.
These buildings were crammed full of fishing related stuff.  Barrels, baskets, nails and boxes.
More stuff – blocks and tackle.
And even stuff outside. It was a bit overwhelming.
One of the little buildings housed a gallery of the award winning photos he’s taken of icebergs.

Later that afternoon, I took a hike down by the beach and up an outcropping of rock.

Along the beach there are a lot of colorful fish stage houses and dock houses.
Going on up the trail.
This is about halfway up. My campground is that part cut out of the trees above the long red building in the center.
This is what it looked like from the top.
There was a pretty sunset that night.

 

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