Day trip to Codroy Valley

We had heard some nice things about the Codroy Valley, so decided to tour it today. Attractions are just starting to open up in this area, and most are still closed. Other than that it's a nice drive mostly through a good farming area, a rarity on Newfoundland.

The Codroy Valley tour included this lighthouse on the most westerly land in mainland Nfld, Cape Anguille:

It's been a beautiful clear day, up to 18C with little wind most of the time. Low humidity, which they tell us is normal here.

A note for you techies - we found our Garmin GPS is almost useless here. Ours shows the main roads, but can't find any towns, camping, etc; and it's right up to date with the Garmin map updates. Luckily we downloaded several Newfoundland poi (points of interest) files from the poi-factory.com web site before leaving, and loaded them on to the GPS. Even some of the tourism documents show long/lat for attraction location targeting, as finding an address does not work. We've had to dust off our old paper (gasp!) map-reading skills.

We did pass by the St Andrews golf course. We've been to the Scottish one of the same name, so Cath had to take a pic:

We had a nice seafood dinner later on, at Margaree (east of Port aux Basques) recommended by the tourist info in Port Aux Basques. The restaurant recently opened for the season. The friendly waitress there said September is often the busiest Nfld tourist month, and that things are generally not fully operational until the beginning of July (which we sort of knew before heading here when we did, but we wanted to see icebergs).

That's fish cakes on the left and Halibut cheeks in the foreground. All was yummy! We split a partridgeberry pudding for desert. A nice little restaurant overlooking the water: