Couldn't have asked for a better day today. Lots of sun, some warmth and a bit of fog thrown in to give the water based photos some extra character.

We decided that it was to visit the two best known tourist attractions in St. John's --- Cape Spear and Signal Hill.

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Yes, more icebergs. We saw several bergs as we neared Cape Spear. That's a tour boat driving past the iceberg in St. John's Bay.

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Cape Spear is the eastern most point in Canada and the eastern most point in continental North America. My boy's at the most eastern point .... well at least as far as they were allowed to go.

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A lighthouse has operated at Cape Spear since September 1836. This is the current lighthouse.

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Signal Hill is a hill which overlooks the city of St. John's. Due to its strategic placement overlooking the harbour, fortifications have been placed on the hill since the mid 17th century. Signal Hill is also famous as the place where Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless transmission on December 12, 1901.

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Another berg in St. John's Bay. I think this is the tallest one we've seen. Fort Amherst is at the bottom of the photo. The first lighthouse was built in 1810, the current lighthouse was built in 1951.

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Construction on Cabot Tower began in 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's landfall in 1497. The building was declared officially open in 1900. The practical uses of the building were flag mast signalling, and a Marconi wireless station which has since been moved to St. John's International Airport.

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Quidi Vidi Village was once a fishing village, now it is home to the Quidi Vidi Plantation and Quidi Vidi Brewery.

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This is the first barn and silo we have seen in Newfoundland. Most of the landscape is trees, water, rocks and bogs, so seeing fields was unusual.

The Trans Canada Highway either starts or ends in St. John's depending which direction you are traveling. We drove to the start of the Trans Canada Highway and were a little disappointed --- the highway just started, no sign, no fan fare just a road. We pulled off at the first exit to figure out where we were going next and thought we had teleported to one of the larger cities in Ontario. There was plaza after plaza filled with box stores, all the big brand name stores, restaurants from most of the big chains and a huge Princess Auto. After Ed made a quick visit to Princess Auto (for any Americans reading this, Princess Auto is like Harbor Freight only bigger) we sped out of the area look for picturesque harbours and fishing villages.