Corner Brook, Newfoundland
Friday 30th September
Our first stop is the small town of Corner Brook. The locals welcomed the ship with singing, music and typical Canadian hospitality.
A really pretty small town, the waterfront is dominated by a paper mill which used to be the main employer, now it’s the hospital that is the main employer. We had a walk around town, visited the stalls and made a purchase (gift) It was now time for an adult beverage, beer from Iceberg water in a local bar. We took a land train trip around town, taking photos in the park of the Corner Brook sign and the sculpture “When the Rubber Meets the Road”. Made from mainly recycled tyres, the roadkill crow weighs 851lbs and measures 5 metres in length. For a weight comparison a camel weighs about 850lbs so the sculpture is pretty big. Crows are a highly adaptive and intelligent species and their behaviour patterns can provide advanced warnings to humans about environmental risk and change. The artists work has a poetic wit, the advance warning in this work is of the deadly consequences on our environment of human action.
The locals were really friendly and chatty, telling us about the recent hurricane which they had managed to escape. The clothes on the line represent bunting according to one of the locals, the streets were adorned with it.
The leaves are just beginning to change colour so hopefully on this trip we will get a port day where they are fully changed.
It’s Remembrance Day of the Indigenous women and girls that went missing or were murdered. The town were having a festival of remembrance in the form of music, dancing, a parade and stalls down the Main Street.
We listened to the music ,the local band had attracted quite a large crowd, it made my day when they started to play Sweet Caroline. I always feel like I am on holiday when I hear that tune. 🤣
Back to the ship, to get ready for dinner and an evening of entertainment. I had my first decent win in the casino so now I am playing with their money.
My machine of choice
A win that kept me going all cruise.