We went into St. Anthony and found parts of the city we had missed, having focused yesterday on L'Anse aux Meadows..  we visited the Grenfell museum (and gift shop) and visited the rotunda in the Hospital next door.   Grenfell is credited with having brought decent medical and missionary services to the area of Labrador and North Newfoundland.   His home is a museum now, but we did not take the tour.    A campsite owner in south Newfoundland had told us to be sure to visit the rotunda in the hospital and see the murals done by Jordi Bonet of Montreal, who was a one armed artist that had been commissioned to do the ceramic impressionistic murals commemorating Dr.Grenfell's work. The murals were done in clay by building a scaffolding over the clay where Bonet would then bend over and make his impressions.   When finished, the clay was cut into manageable chunks that were then fired in a kiln to give the brilliant ceramic finish, then reassembled in the Rotunda.

We heard from some locals about a young Beluga whale swimming in Goose Bay harbor about 10 miles away...  it somehow got separated from its group and followed a boat into the harbor... about 3 years old, it weighs about 1200 pounds it is estimated..  it stays close to the wharf and will follow the boats but not leave the harbor...  a marine biologist was there monitoring the situation day to day, looking for a way to coax it back out to the ocean...  it evidently had some "scuff" marks from getting too close to boat propellors...   has come up close to the dock and has let people touch it.   We were the only "yanks" there watching and it was fun to listen to some very unique dialects being spoken by some of the locals watching..  a young fisherman would switch from english to one of the dialects spoken by an older local couple he seemed to know... 

We drove through St. Anthony to the Lighthouse Cafe which holds a Viking feast for tourists, and is near a great spot for "whale and iceberg watching"..    too late for icebergs now, and it takes patients to see whales, but has some spectacular views of the coast along St. Anthony....  of particular interest to us was the tundra growing across the rocks, peat base so was very soft to walk on, and covered with pretty flowers.

Finally we dressed and went back up to L'Anse aux Meadows to the Norseman for the dinner and shows... it was a small, quaint restaurant with about 15 tables..... this night about 23 attended the special dinner...  the owner (one on the right) started the restaurant 7 years ago when she was only 20 years old... it is now listed as one of the best 100 in Canada...  the food was good, a Newfoundland cusine...   the owner's brother played guitar and sang Newfoundland folk songs that were interspersed with "readings" and stories by the girls...  a fun night...