Cape Spear

Lori has almost finished her first week of working from home and everything has gone well. She was concerned about starting so early (6:00am) but she loves being finished by mid-afternoon. She's adjusted her schedule to match everyone else in the office in Paris. Her holiday schedule also matches the office in Paris and if you remember from a year ago, May is full of holidays in France. Yesterday was VE Day and a national holiday, so Lori had the day off. She will not get Victoria Day or Canada Day off though.

Since she had the day off, we decided to get out and have some fun. We heard rumours of an iceberg out towards Cape Spear so we set out to see if we could find it. We did see a couple of small icebergs.

May is still early for icebergs. June is the best month to see the big ones. There is a website that tracks them.

http://www.icebergfinder.com/

It was still worth the trip out to Cape Spear though. It's one of my favourite places in the world. It is the easternmost point of North America so it juts out into the North Atlantic Ocean and it's wild and windy. There has been a lighthouse here since 1836.

During the Second World War, Cape Spear also served as a Coastal Defense Battery with two 10" guns. St. John's harbour was a gathering point for the convoys supplying Europe during the war, so it drew considerable interest from the German Navy. The gun turrets and bunkers are still visible.

On our way back into town we stopped along the road and took some pictures of the city. You can get a sense of the "Jellybean Houses" that St.John's is known for.

It was a great day, now if we can only get some decent weather.

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