Day 16 - Weather Bound

It was a dark and stormy night but we were sheltered and warm so we slept in until 9:00.

The weather forecast is dismal: high winds to 90km. and rain until tomorrow afternoon when it gets a little better. We don’t want to drive in these winds so we are spending at least another night in Rocky Harbour. While downloading the weather forecasts we discovered that a nearby campground has wireless internet. We checked it out and found it also has some reasonably sheltered sites so during a lull in the rain and winds we moved. It also has heated comfort stations.

We threw up our "high wind gear" and hunkered down. Except for a brief trip for some groceries we have been inside all day. We took advantage of the internet to book a trip to Santiago de Cuba in December. We are confident it will be warmer there.

Unless the weather forecast changes we are planning to leave Newfoundland and take the ferry to Nova Scotia on Saturday. It looks quite a bit better there. We are reluctant to leave because we haven’t accomplished everything we had in mind for this trip to Newfoundland but it is an excuse for another trip.