We are in Gander this morning and will leave for Eastport shortly; it is only about a fifty mile drive. There is a lot of U. S. history here. During WWII all of the planes going to Europe went through Gander for refueling. There were hundreds of bombers and fighters parked here waiting to be ferried overseas. Gander was also the sight of the worst plane crash in U. S. military history in 1985 when approximately 240 troops lost their lives on the way home at Christmas time.

We also spent some time in twillingate; it is the iceberg capitol of the world. We were too late to see any. One iceberg that ran aground in 275 feet of water and was over 1700 feet long broke up and moved on shortly before we arrived. The local winery uses iceberg water in the making of their wine. All of these little fishing villages are really something to see and explore; all of the people are more than friendly. Three of us also went fishing here and caught our limit of cod in just a couple of hours and got very close to some large Humpback Whales.

Salted cod.

Humpback seen on our fishing trip in 21 foot boat.

The whale was bigger than the boat.

Part of our catch of 15 cod.
We will feed the entire caravan cod on Wednesday.

This one is for Chris

Built to scale

Site of the first international seaplane refueling port.