Today I leave the Grand Codroy area to travel the Viking Trail (Route 430) to Port au Choix, Newfoundland. This island is so incredibly beautiful. My landscape photos just don’t do it justice.
There were a couple of stops my trip up. The first was the Newfoundland Insectarium. Before you step into the live butterfly exhibit, you can view the pupa waiting to emerge.
When I stepped into the exhibit and saw all the butterflies flitting about, I was like a excited little kid. So many butterflies! So many different colors! And they land right on you!
Upstairs they had lots of insect specimens.
They even had live specimens of walking sticks and tarantulas spiders.
Another stop along the Viking Trail was the Arches Provincial Park.
Our campground is at the Oceanside RV Park on the grounds of the Lions Club at Port au Choix. We are literally parked at the ocean’s edge.
Someone asked me how warm the water was, but since it’s much colder here (63 degrees F) I really didn’t care to venture out. The winds are constant, about 35 mph and they rock my RV back and forth. It’s like sleeping in a cradle at night.
The water’s edge is very rocky. At first I thought it looked like lava flow, but then I started finding fossils in the rock.
There is another park close by, and you can go out there by the lighthouse and see caribou. Some in our group are lucky enough to have seen moose. Maybe someday I’ll see one.
