day 33 of our road trip

Hello! Sorry I’m posting so late. The last couple days have been busy, and I haven’t had much time to write. I’ll hopefully be posting all of them up to yesterday, so if I get all of them done, there will be three to read today! Okay, onto the day. Day 33 was the first long travel day and day we had to get up early in a long time. We got up early, and all of us went to the town of Trinity bay, where we got a boat tour of the bay. The tour was a 2-hour trip, and while that may sound boring because we weren’t able to bring anything to read or play on, there was so much to see there wasn’t time to even want do do anything else! We started off by having to put on these waterproof floatation suits. I also had to put on a life jacket, but that was just because I was younger. Once we got out, we drove at a very fast speed out into the bay, and then went down to a large island(?) where a lot of eagles. Lived. There were a lot of bald eagles, and they don’t sound like what movies make them to sound like. We went there because there is a Stellar’s sea eagle that has been there for a while. The Stellar’s sea eagle normally doesn’t live in Newfoundland as it’s more commonly found in Asia. This eagle is the only one in North America, and it has been seen all over North America for the past two years! The eagle has been very lost for a while, and it’s at least staying farther north now. I’m only saying what I know about it from what my parents have explained to me. The eagle was really cool to see, and we then went to a smaller bay that had an iceberg in it. The iceberg has stayed for much longer than it normally should have, being midsummer and the iceberg is just ice. The iceberg had broken, and there was now another, smaller iceberg that was shaped like a whale’s tail. Once we left there, we explored around the area for a little while, and then in the way back, there was something I have always wanted to see. PUFFINS! Puffins are amazing. They are kind of like platypuses, and I will give some reasons why. 1.) the puffin is known for being a Canadian animal, even though it’s not the first animal you think of when you think Canada. The platypus is similar, as it’s the same thing but for Australia. 2.) the puffin is not a normal animal, although it is a bit more normal than the platypus, since it is a mishmash of various other animals’ features. 3.) the puffin is better at swimming than doing what others in its species can.  Puffins are better at swimming than flying, and the platypus is better at swimming than walking. 4.) they are far smaller than you think. I can’t describe how different they are in words, so I’ll leave it to you to figure out. That is a short list of reasons why the puffin is similar to the platypus. On the way back, we also saw the thing we truly came to see- a whale! The whale was a fin whale, which is the second-largest whale species in the world. There was a young one and a mother, so we saw two whales! They passed quite close to our boat. After all that, we finally arrived back. Once we came back ashore, we went up to an ice creamery at the top of a hill. We walked up there and we found out that the ice cream was homemade and was sold out of a refurbished barn. The ice cream was really good, better than most of the other ice cream I’ve ever had.  We drove down to my grandfather’s old house, and we have been staying there since. The house is really nice, but not everything is good. Most of it isn’t safe or fully complete.  It’s sad. Once we got there, we unpacked and went to bed. That was almost the whole day. Everything interesting. That’s all for now. Bye!          -Colin