Thursaday, our stop was in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. We were here 3 years ago.
Our excursion todae was "Newfoundland Screech In". A Screech In is a Newfoundland tradition to make non-Newfoundlanders honorary Newfoundlanders.
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| A bit of color before sunrise |
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| First sight of the entrance to St, Johns harbor |
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| Pilot boats arriving. |
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| Signal Hill |
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| The Cabot Tower on Signal Hill completed in 1900 and commemorating the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's landing in Newfoundland. It was the site where Guglielmo Marconi received the first wireless trans-Atlantic message in 1901. |
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| Passingf through The Narrows |
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| Marine Police escorting us. |
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| Fishing boats |
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| Where we will dock. |
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| A Coast Guard Cutter |
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| We are al the dock, |
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| Looking back at The Narrows |
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| We had entertainment on the pier |
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| Tress just starting to leaf out. |
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| Memorial to the United Nations to ohonor Canadians killed while serving in the Peacekeeping force. Peacekeeping force |
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| the Anglican Cathedral |
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| The new Newfoundland National War Memorial |
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| Tomb of th3 Unknown Newfoundland Soldier |
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| I then went to seethe Terry Fox memorial |
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| Back to the ship |
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| Kathy and I head out on our excursion |
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| To We first went to and arae called Quidi Vidi |
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| This is a fishing villiage |
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| We went to this craft brewery for a tasting |
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| Their Iceberg beer is made with water from melted icebergs |
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| Quidi Vidi lake |
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| Government House where the Lieutenant governor of Newfoundland lives. |
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| The we went to a port wine vault |
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| We had a tatse |
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| Back on the bus |
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| Where the Screech In took place. |
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| Kissing the cod after we had a drink of Screeh Rum. |
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| The a sword was tapped on our shoulder |
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| Kathy and I kissed the cod fish |
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| Back o the ship, we sailed back though gthe Narrows |
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| We saw several icebergs |
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| No sunset seen tonight because of fog. |