Day 9 - Signal Hill

 This morning we went to Signal Hill.  First we stopped at the Interpretive centre where they had a display and a very good movie about the history of Signal Hill.  We then had coffee in the van.  We hiked up to Signal Hill.  The view from there is utterly amazing.  You could climb the tower and got outside at the top.  They even fired the noon signal gun.  It was really loud.  That is the gun that they used to signal the town about ships coming in and also the time of day.  They would shoot it at 8, 12 and 6 everyday so keep the time.  We then hiked down to the water, back to St. John;s along the harbour entrance and back to our van.  It was lovely.  We were happy to have our rain coats along, mostly to protect us from the fierce wind, but also from time to time a light rain.  

We had lunch in the van and then stopped at the Geo Centre near Signal Hill.  It pretty much was about the oil and gas industry in Newfoundland.  Quite interesting as it explained the oil platforms like Hibernia.  There are now 5 of them.  Three platforms and 2 floating huge ships.  They also had a very good movie about the geology of Newfoundland.

Then we went downtown St. John's where we walked along the 3 busiest streets.  A big cruise shipped was also in the harbour.  It has travelled the world for more than 200 days already and is on its way back to its starting place of Miami, Florida.  We had happy hour in a pub on the street and then had supper in a nice restaurant.  

We were tired and happy to get back to our camping spot in Pippy Park.










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