The blue building is the whale watch headquarters. To the left, the tan building is our lodging.

Our unit is in the tan building on the left side.

On the catamaran tour boat.

These three humpback whales stayed near our boat for a long time. These whales are about 50 feet long (weigh about 1,000 lbs per foot). Babies weigh about 3-4 tons at birth.

the blowhole of the humpback.

Another tour boat watching the same whales.

When you see the tail, the whale is going under for up to 45 minutes.

The bird refuge at Witless Bay Ecological Preserve. Several species of bird nest here during the summer. We saw Kittiwakes (a gull), Puffins, and Murres.

Murres (dark backs).

Kittiwakes (a gull).

Puffins are up in the grass where they dig a burrow about 6 feet deep to lay eggs and raise young. After young leave the nest, the birds spend the remainder of the year at sea, up to 1000 miles away.

zoomed in on the puffins near their nests.

Leaving the bird refuge island in the fast catamaran.

Lauren at Colony of Avalon, Ferryland, NF. This is where Lord Baltimore (John Calvert) founded a colony in 1621.

Archaeologist digging at a site at the Colony of Avalon. They have worked this site since the mid 1980s and have found over a million artifacts and walls of several buildings, cobblestone paths, and roads.