Day 2 Furby's Cove

Another glorious sunny day! It got up to 22 C., it was heavenly!! (Eat yer heart out, Arnie!)

I suppose we could call this another day of rest and relaxing.  However, we need to keep our steps up for Fitbit so this gave us the incentive to brave the steep hills on the road to the highway twice again today!  By steep, I mean almost vertical. Not to moan, but our Fitbit calls it the equivalent of  24 flights of stairs, sigh.  Who needs a Nordictrac!!

Lots more reading today.  Karl actually finished his Clive Cussler book, Ghost Ship, and is on to another book that looks to have more than a thousand pages ..... I am also on to my second book, but it's just so nice to drift ..... here we really have no need to rush off anywhere. 'Rushing' is not in the Newfie dictionary out here on the Rock!

There is an forgotten cemetery next door to Arnie and Rita's house which was part of an old abandoned church.  The church is long gone, but the cemetery is overgrown with bushes and weeds.  Not sure who owns it, but Karl and I took an hour out of our reading and, armed with clippers, tried to clean up around some of the stones.  The dates we saw were as old as 1938 and as recent as 1963.  We found at least 6 or 7, but I know that under all that brush there are more.  Interesting, but also sad for the people buried there. 

We had another feast of fish tonight.  This time I tried Cod au Grautin (with goat's cheese) - a recipie I found on the Internet from a site called Recipies from the Rock ... coincidence? When I asked Karl how he liked it, he gave it a 15 on a scale of 1 to 10.  So.... this one's a keeper LOL! 

After supper we went for a wander around the community and down by the water.  The tide was out so we were able to walk quite a distance out on some gravel. There's always little things the water brings in: lots of shells, seaweed, and bits of something that looked like coral.  Just a grey/white colour but "looks like" what I think coral would look like.  Karl thinks it could also be barnacles??!! (BTW, we checked and the water felt warm, hum, perhaps I should try swimming here? Yes, I can so swim faster than the sharks that I am told have been seen in the Cove!

We wandered up to say hello to Wallace & his wife Brenda and found them outside having a campfire with some family who had come visiting.  Turns out that today wasn't the best day for him so he hadn't felt up to taking the boat out. But no matter, we truly understood!! We stayed and visited for a while, they are all such great people!! 

So another day is in the books.  I am told that there has been bad weather in Ontario, but here, it was another one of those idyllic summer days!