Day 26 - Port aux Choix

 This morning, we started our day by exploring the beach at our camping site. It was an interesting solid rock formation that resembled lava and had the appearance of rough concrete. After that, we drove to the National Historic Site in Port aux Choix, which is situated on a limestone barrens. The landscape looked like gravel due to the easily breakable limestone. This area is home to a herd of caribou and was used as seal hunting grounds by the Groswater Palaeo Inuit from 2000 to 2800 BC. They discovered a habitation site with many hunting-related artifacts and also found a burial site containing at least 117 bodies buried with various artifacts and sprinkled with red ochre.

There was a lighthouse on the site and another really interesting beach area of flat rock.

We went hiking on some of the trails and saw 2 caribou chewing their cud right at the archaeological dig site of the habitation. Although it made it difficult to see the site clearly, it was a unique experience.

Later, we headed to L'Anse aux Meadows to learn about the Vikings. We are currently staying at the Viking RV Park, but we haven't spotted any Vikings, only lots of other RVs like ours.







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