Woke up to rain this morning and it continued to rain for most of the day. There’s not a lot to see in this area but we wanted to see what we could, so off in the rain we went. We started by driving to Robert’s Arm, a town north east of South Brook.

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As we were driving past some houses we noticed this building at the end of one driveway. We stopped to have a look at the life sized carved wooden motorcycle. You can understand why the owner wanted to show it off.

When we drove into Triton we saw a sign for a Whale exhibit. It was raining a little harder, so we said let’s stop and have a look. Almost didn’t go in when we saw the fee of $5 per adult (seemed a little pricey to look at some whale bones). Turned out it was well worth the cost. The fellow on duty is a retired school teacher and he gave us a tour of the whale skeleton and other items in the exhibit.

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This photo is of a picture of a sperm whale --- it is the largest toothed whale, is the second deepest diving whale, is able to stay under water for up to 90 minutes and has the largest brain of any animal on earth. It also has the largest “nose” of all the whales.

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The skeleton is from a sperm whale that washed up on the south west coast of Newfoundland. A team of men from Triton went down to the coast to recover the bones. This process involved removing the skin, meat, etc. from the bones and separating the bones. The bones were brought back to Triton and cleaned by putting them in bay allowing crustaceans to clean the bones. Once the bones were cleaned they were sent to Drumheller Alberta to be reassembled. The skeleton was then returned to Triton where it was put on display.


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On our drive we saw several mussel farms, at least a half dozen ice bergs as well as docks and boat. Oh, did I mention fog. You can see some in the background.

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Most of the buildings we have seen are in very good conditions. It’s nice to see old weathered buildings.

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There were three icebergs and some “berger bits” in the bay at Brighton. The fog added some mystery.

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Couldn’t resist having a bit of fun. One of the “berger bits” floated near shore. It was fizzing much like soda pop. As the ice was melting it was releasing trapped air.