9am we left our accommodations to go a little bit North to Sea Breeze park. We tried to tackle the small South trail, but flying neener bugs and trail stair reconstruction prevented it.
Heading North we hiked the North Longpoint trail and admired the high cliff views. Unfortunately we couldn’t find the side trail to the lighthouse.
Needing some calories, we drove to Crow’s Head and stopped at the Crow’s Nest Cafe. It was started by a fellow who converted his parent cottage into this popular spot with caffeinated and mouth watering delights. My moka was fantastic and the peanut butter brownie brought back memories.
Driving to the lighthouse, we first went to the observation platform to see the landscape. While leaving the platform to proceed to the lighthouse, Angie pointed to an old guy in a car chatting with someone and exclaimed she “knew” the guy. That guy she knew was Lloyd Colbourne and she got to chat with him for a bit.
Famous within Newfoundland, from 1975 to 1995, Lloyd shared local nature, culture, and the heritage of communities and regions all over the province during his half hour segments. He used a handheld film camera and it was broadcast on CBC. It was done on the cheap with rough edit cuts. However, after watching part of an episode while writing this, his clear dulcet tones and narrative commentary was excellent. His “travel by map using a pencil to point out the trip” made me laugh and acknowledge respect for using maps everyone used for conveying information to his audience. Link to Youtube for a double episode of “Newfoundland Outdoors” from 1979 is here: Newfoundland Outdoors.
Walking around the lighthouse, it was time to tackle hiking trail #8; Lighthouse/Cuckhold’s Point Trail. It's maintained by Rockcut Twillingate Hiking Trails. At 6km and marked as medium we descended and ascended repeatedly while turning this way and that along its route. Terrain and coastline was as varied as the route. We each felt we got a tough workout while enjoying the wonderful scenery on this 2.5 hour hike. At the time I would have hated to do one of their hard routes.
Walking around the lighthouse, it was time to tackle hiking trail #8; Lighthouse/Cuckhold’s Point Trail. It's maintained by Rockcut Twillingate Hiking Trails. At 6km and marked as medium we descended and ascended repeatedly while turning this way and that along its route. Terrain and coastline was as varied as the route. We each felt we got a tough workout while enjoying the wonderful scenery on this 2.5 hour hike. At the time I would have hated to do one of their hard routes.
It turned out, while I was writing this and researching details, on the Rockcut website the name of the trail had changed from the signage. It’s now called Horney Head Cove Trail, it is a HARD trail, and we missed a hidden cave along the trail. Alas.
The trail ended near the Crow’s Nest Cafe so we took washroom breaks. I noticed two posters, for “The Amazing Root Cellar Race” and another for bands playing at a local venue, that captured local events. Rarely do they create webpages or broadcast it out by any electronic method.
Leaving the ladies at the cafe, Kirk and I walked to the lighthouse to get the truck. On the way we discussed ideas for his D&D one-shots he was planning on running that would be subtly interconnected.
Returning to our hostel, we relaxed and had an early supper to regain the calories spent. While we were preparing the meal, we chatted with some of the guests and about music. That led to choosing different songs to play on one fellow’s cell phone and bluetooth speaker. In particular they liked an Acadian band I really like from PEI called Vishten. Check them out here. On the menu was BBQ’d steaks with Montreal steakspice, cut potatoes that had been microwaved then finished in aluminum foil on the BBQ, fried mushrooms, and mixed salad with a nice red wine. Yum!
After the meal, boardgames and a dice game were played until the sandman came calling. We walked/hiked 10.7km and climbed the equivalent of 92 flights of stairs.
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