Canada

First stop today is at Grand Bank Cape Trail to enjoy a short hike along the shoreline and find some birds

We spend two nights in Fortune but it is not to explore the village really it is more to spend the day taking the ferry to St Pierre and explore a different country

After lunch and buying provisions we stop for a short visit at the Manuels River Hibernia Center to see the trilobits at least inside the museum if we cannot outside due to rain

To escape the rain we have planned only an indoor stop today at the Rooms the new and exciting major museum in St John’s

We spend the last afternoon and evening in St John’s by visiting the Colonial Building and surrounding area and having a nice dinner downtown

Cape Spear Lighthouse NHS is worth visiting due to the World War 2 fortifications, historic lighthouse and the most easterly point of continental North America

We spend the morning exploring Signal Hill NHS with a loop that takes in all major sites like Cabot Tower, multiple viewpoints and Queen’s Battery

We end the day with a visit to the Cape St Mary Ecological Preserve to hike to the famous Gannet Colony where we can still see lots of Northern Gannets both nesting and flying around

The last time sensitive stop today is Castle Hill NHS which protects what is left of a major French fortress that protected the Placentia settlement

We spend an hour exploring an active excavation site at Cupids Cove where the oldest English settlement in Canada was found a few years ago