Posts Tagged ‘Bonavista’
BLOW HARD
A friend recently said that his uncle only went “Down” to Greenspond, Newfoundland & Labrador on a Northerly wind. Given the width of Bonavista Bay, we nodded in agreement, thinking this made perfect sense since he would likely make the entire voyage with only a single change in sailing direction – heading eastward to the…
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Just before we married, my wife inherited a ramshackle of a place in Bonavista, Newfoundland. It was a hard-old spot that looked fit for nothing beyond the haunts that were rumoured to possess it. We intended to flatten it and use the lovely section of level land to build a new seaside cottage. But those…
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