After dropping the trailer off at the Ferry waiting area, we traveled the 40 miles along the southern coast to Rose Blanche, the end of the road along the coast and the ferry depot for going to the outports.. This was one of the most beautiful drives we had experienced in Newfoundland...   almost unreal with the mixture of rolling rock hills, covered with vegetation, and interspersed with ponds...  made us think of a design someone might have for a pro golf course setting...  the rocky edges rolled along the coast line into small fishing villages...  a beautiful drive with the final destination being a reconstructed light house at Rose Blanche...  we were glad that we had the time to make this sidetrip... lots of great photo opportunities although a bit hazy due to the higher temperature today... it was near 80 degrees most of the day... 

Then we returned to the terminal and ate in their cafeteria....   it was still early so not many people had arrived yet.... we decided to open up the Aliner in the Ferry waiting lane and process photos and prepare a backpack to take on the Ferry with us...  so... with about  5 hours left before boarding, we popped open the Aliner.... the Ferry authorities at the gate came running over, as did several people from cars in the next lanes....  thought we were in trouble, but they only wanted to look at it close up... they were amazed with the ease that they saw us open it....  kept us busy explaining the Aliner for an hour...  we sold one for sure to an older couple that said this was exactly what they were looking for, and wrote down the names of a couple Canadian dealers we were able to give them.....   Suzanne also gave them one or her Aliner Owners Club cards showing the website...   this was the most excitement we had experienced over the Aliner, but probably because we were kind of in a fish bowl in the front waiting lane with others sitting in their cars or RVs waiting....    the interest continued most of the evening, and picked up again later about 10:00 PM when we shut it down...   The attention from the Ferry loading authorities was beneficial, because when they started the loading, they came over and waved us on first when they started the RV loading...  we were glad to get on the ship and underway...

The Ferry as I earlier mentioned  is really a small ship with a restaurant, lounge with entertainment, TV Lounge,  gift shop, snack bar, sleeping cabins,  and many areas to sit...  we picked an area with reclining seats and used that as our base of operations for the night.... the Ferry ride took over 7 hours this way, and got into North Sidney about 7:00 AM after gaining 1/2 hour to correct for Newfoundland time..  As the sun started to come up, I watched from the back of the boat.....  a rich orange glow, and two different Jet airplanes coming from the East spreading an orange trail through the sky, in different directions...  it was warm and the water was relatively calm....   as we approached land at the corner of the harbor, there were some fishing boats passing by that then seemed to cross our wake, and hesitate near it.... I wondered if the churning from the ship's wake helped wake up the fish... then the fishing boats disappeared into the distance....

As we drove off the boat the "check engine" light came on again... guess the part they replaced in St. John's did not fix the problem..  so we will need to decide if we should give someone a chance here in Nova Scotia to look at it again....  there was a gas odor again about the same time that we noticed that the light had come on again....   we continued to the Golden Arm Campground about 5 minutes from the Ferry..   no one at the office, so we picked a spot and setup... Suzanne immediately went to sleep...  I am writing this journal entry....  beautiful day, so maybe we will start on the Cabot Trail today..