Gros Morne: Day Two

These people up here are MAD hikers. Their calf muscles are the size of Volkswagons. We're a bit hurting after yesterdays hikes so today "Susie" gets to shop! Newfy by the way should be Newfie... We toured the Marine Station today, it was very informative and hands on. The tours were led by students, that was cute and nice to see kids turned on to their environment. If we learned anything aboot (Newfie speak) Newfies is  they are a very proud people. More than a handful refer to Labrador and Newfoundland as accepting the rest of Canada in 1949, rather then them being accepted as part of Canada. They prefer to be an entity onto themselves!

Pictured below is next to the Marine Station.

We went to a site of a 1919 shipwreck, all survived and a baby made it to shore in a mailbag. 90 years later remnants of the wreck are still strewn about the shore. The rocks there were amazing! Some were perfectly round, others an amazing mix of colors.

Shipwreck...

Shipwreck. Amazing to see the engine block here as well as the crank laying inside.

Check out these rocks. The amazing thing is that if you zoom in to look at the smallest of rocks they all have the same charactoristics - just smaller...

We also toured a former summer fishing site. Three brothers, 3 wives, four children came to Brooms Point every summer to fish Salmon and Cod and trap lobster. They all stayed in a 4 room house, (3 bedrooms and a main living area). It was a family business that was described as viable. The summer garden on the beach had cabbage, beets, carrots, parsnips and turnips. They also brought chickens from the winter home so they could have eggs. The family fished for 34 years, 1941 til 1975. Before roads existed the cod was salted and the salmon canned on site; the lobsters were shipped live.

Somewhere in between we stopped and checked out a lighthouse, just thought I should add it...

Tomorrow we head to the western part of the Avalon Peninsula or the Irish Loop. If we haven't mentioned it, the Irish/Scottish influence is everywhere- terrain, food and language.
We came across and interesting phrase for CRS, "His head is like a brewis net". It is the same as saying a mind is like a sieve. They soak the hard tac or hard bread in a net so in the morning they can pull up the net and drain the bread. Then the bread  is added to cod, pork fat and butter to make the classic fish and brewis or fishermen brewis (brooze).A truly great "peasant" dish!