Dear Gilles,
With our unsatisfactory bike adventure yesterday, a nice guy at Cape Spear suggested that we check out the White Hills area for bike trails. There are bike trails there. We drove to the neighbourhood. Got stopped by a security gate for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, were directed to a parking spot and unloaded the bikes.
These trails are all loose gravel, slate shards and not marked at all. Well, they're marked at the entrance with an "Enter at your own risk" sign that also includes a you're trespassing and we won't come to rescue you sentiment. But according to the security guard, and the cars in the visitor spots, there are a lot of people that use these trails. We were passed by one fellow, skillfully pedalling uphill and a dog walker.
With the lack of signage, I had to rely on the Trailforks app for location and direction of travel. It was not really a fun and satisfying morning. We did find a munitions bunker in the middle of the forest though. Looked it up on forgotten Newfoundland.
https://www.hiddennewfoundland.ca/east-white-hills-military-site
We then headed to the Johnson Geo Park with free admission via CASC reciprocal agreement.
We took our time in the small centre and learned about oil and offshore rigs and the rock cycle. The centre is built underground so that the walls are literally the bedrock of Signal Hill. There is no room for expansion on this site so, it will be a small centre in to the future.
After this, we probably should have quit for the day. But we went to The Rooms. The building is architecturally fun. The art gallery portion was small but effective. The museum portion was too much information for us. It had a strong military floor and semi-recent life in Newfoundland, but we had already visited places with very similar displays.
The BEST display was a preserved giant squid. We spent a lot of time observing it in the tank.
We came back to the campsite and watched the effectiveness of the tent to withstand the wind that promised to last all night long.
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