{"id":12412,"date":"2017-09-04T16:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T20:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2017-11-27T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T00:03:16","slug":"st-anthony-newfoundland-labrador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/?p=12412","title":{"rendered":"St. Anthony, Newfoundland & Labrador"},"content":{"rendered":"

Monday – September 4, 2017<\/p>\n

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We left Nanortalik, Greenland Saturday afternoon and cruised for two nights and all day yesterday across the Labrador Sea, aka \u201cIceberg Alley.” \u00a0I have a cold so I fell asleep early and slept well despite the ship heaving on the ocean swells. \u00a0We\u2019ve traveled 8047 nautical miles since leaving Boston on August 2nd.<\/p>\n

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I was awake early this morning before I heard the crew lowering the tenders at six \u2018o\u2019clock. \u00a0I looked out to see Canada, and I felt we were almost home! \u00a0The Rotterdam dropped anchor near the protected harbor of St. Anthony on the tip of the peninsula at the eastern end of Newfoundland island. \u00a0It looked a lot like many of the rocky shores we\u2019ve been seeing during the past several weeks, but there were trees above the rocks! There were no forests in Iceland or Greenland.<\/p>\n

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The weather was clear, about 50 degrees with a cool breeze blowing. \u00a0The Vikings were said to have come this far south and settle nearby at a location now called l’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site. \u00a0There were excursions from the ship to see the 11th century Viking mounds and other excavations.<\/p>\n

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We rode the tender ashore and the first thing I noticed was that we were back to \u201cred right returning\u201d buoys. \u00a0When we entered other harbors in Europe, the ship kept the green buoys to the right. \u00a0It was an interesting tender ride past commercial fishing boats which lined one side of the long U-shaped harbor. \u00a0It was Labor Day in the U.S. and today we learned that Canadians celebrate it on the first Monday of September also. \u00a0Therefore, nothing was open except the hospital across the road and the Grenfell Museum and Interpretive Center at the tender dock. \u00a0They probably opened the center for the cruise ship.<\/p>\n

The M. S. Rotterdam was anchored in the larger harbor pictured below.<\/p>\n

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St. Anthony is an unusual town because it goes around the jagged edge of the lengthy harbor, without a town center. \u00a0Houses and commercial buildings lined the waterside all the way around. \u00a0The harbor of St. Anthony was used by French and Basque fishermen as seasonal fishing stations in the early 16th century. \u00a0Three centuries later, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell was the first doctor to come to this remote region in 1892. \u00a0He established hospitals, cooperatives, and schools all across rural Newfoundland and Labrador. \u00a0We walked around the buildings of the Interpretive Center and, of course, the gift shop.<\/p>\n

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We returned early to have lunch aboard the ship and relaxed. \u00a0I walked around the ship to take photos while most of the passengers were on shore to have a record of the interior of the ship.<\/p>\n

Lido Cafe for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and leisurely suppers:<\/p>\n

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Aft Deck – aka The Retreat:<\/p>\n

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Indoor pool with retractable roof for warm days:<\/p>\n

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The Atrium – center of the ship:<\/p>\n

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Jeff in the Library blogging:<\/p>\n

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Captain van der Wal announced we have 267 nautical miles to go to reach St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland our next port of call! \u00a0He said the weather would be raining in the morning and partly cloudy in the afternoon. \u00a0We\u2019ve been so lucky with weather on this adventure, it would be okay to have a rainy day. \u00a0Just less photos!<\/p>\n

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Monday – September 4, 2017 We left Nanortalik, Greenland Saturday afternoon and cruised for two nights and all day yesterday across the Labrador Sea, aka \u201cIceberg Alley.” \u00a0I have a cold so I fell asleep early and slept well despite the ship heaving on the ocean swells. \u00a0We\u2019ve traveled 8047 nautical miles since leaving Boston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-cruising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12415,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions\/12415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gallivantinggrandma.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}