Bound Down for Newfoundland
This is what I saw at my favorite spot on Signal Hill - Ladies' Lookout. Aren't digital zoom cameras wonderful? These shots are of the Tattoo right outside the Interpretive Center halfway up Signal Hill. If you ever get to the Interpretive Center, make sure you watch the movie on the history of Signal Hill. The guys from Codco do the film. You could just laugh your socks off. I wish I knew French so I could see if they are saying the same thing as they are in English. If you saw it, you'd understand.
Other beautiful scenes from Ladies Lookout are below. Fort Amherst in the Narrows and someone walking up the Trail to Signal Hill, Qudi Vidi Village, looking east to Cape Spear, looking west to Georges Lake and Quidi Vidi Lake in the background - the Regatta will be there on Wednesday, a native stone scupture - I cannot remember the name of it, and a map of Signal Hill for you to place all this stuff. Ladies Lookout is at 12 o'clock between the lake and the sea.
Cape Spear and Fidlers
Sunday, August 3rd

Breakfast at the Captain’s Quarters as per usual. We offered suggestions for what to do for the Come-From-Aways who were visiting for the first time. We recommend the whale/bird tours out of Bay Bulls, Cape Spear, Signal Hill, Ferryland, the Fluvarium, The Johnson GeoCentre, etc. as well as the Folk Festival.

We went to Signal Hill again. (I told you about the everyday thing before) and I just sat at Ladies’ Lookout for an hour or so, just enjoying the view from various vantage points and doing a favor for Columbine. Met a really cute Border Collie named Bandit and his owner who walks on Signal Hill every day. I got to see the Tattoo while I was sitting on the hill. It was neat. There are so many vantages from that one spot on Signal Hill. You can imagine what joy and sorrow the spot held for those waiting for loved ones to return from fishing or sealing or war. Or the terror and curiosity in the eyes of those who first saw the Europeans come in their sailing ships. It’s a powerful spot. I just felt like I needed to be there and just listen to the thousands of years of voices that have been calling me. Powerful thing, this feeling of belonging to a place you’ve just recently discovered. I can’t explain it – I just try to deal with it.