{"id":561,"date":"2009-08-10T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T16:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=561"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:53:52","slug":"quick-update-from-st-barbe-newfoundland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/quick-update-from-st-barbe-newfoundland\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick update from St Barbe, Newfoundland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in St Barbe to cross to Labrador but not going today due to high winds which made the ride up the coast interesting. Fortunately it was mostly from the south and a tail wind, but it was strong enough when angling east or west that it was difficult to hold the bike in the lane.<\/p>\n<p>Our ferry from Nova Scotia ended up not leaving until around midnight and we landed on Newfoundland at dawn. We were able to sleep a little on the ferry so we headed to Blow Me Down Provincial Park to camp and spent two days there because it rained until 4 PM on Saturday. We talked to people yesterday and they said it was a torrential downpour in their cars, so I&#8217;m glad we sat it out.<\/p>\n<p>We did the boat tour at Western Brook Pond (fjord) in Gros Morne National Park yesterday, camped at Shallow Bay inthe park. Due to the wind we&#8217;re going to L&#8217;Anse au Meadow where the Vikings landed 1000 years ago and we&#8217;ll try the ferry tomorrow when the wind is better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re in St Barbe to cross to Labrador but not going today due to high winds which made the ride up the coast interesting. Fortunately it was mostly from the south and a tail wind, but it was strong enough when angling east or west that it was difficult to hold the bike in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip_reporting","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":768,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}