Drove the coast road around Conception Bay. We passed close by a beach and noticed several oen boats just off shore. We stopped and asked about and we told thefishermen were squid-jigging. On the side of the boat were four to six reels ganged together with crankhandle. The reels had long lines of unbarbed hooks withe a weight at the bottom. The fisherman lowered the group of lines into the water until he felt the weight hit bottom. Then he cranked the lines back up to the boat. As the hooks came over the reels any squid on the hooks fall into the boat. They are evidently able to bring up hundreds of pounds of fish at a session. The squid come into the cove in July and stay for a few weeks.
We drove on and as lunch time approached we pulled of into the village of Brigus. Restored fishing village. Ate lunch in a diner with the best blueberry dessert. Caught in some rain fall. On to Spaniards Bay to our B&B. S was not impressed but relented. We drove on up the coast to Carbonear. It clearly had seen better days but it did have abusy ship yard with a numer of vessels under repair. We stopped at a gallery - coffee shop. S enjoyed the art and the artist an riobos tea. I had the coffee. We didn't find any promising places for supper so we decided to head back to Brigus where we had a wonderful pan fried cod diner at the North Street Cafe.Here are pictures of the village.
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