A short drive to the Easternmost point in North America

Today we woke up to real sunshine.  The sky was blue.  No dark clouds anywhere to be seen.
I had to take one more shot of the view and one of the cabins and little village below.  I guess I thought this would be the best scenery we would see... wrong.

We drove about an hour to Cape Spear. This is the easternmost point in North America.

This map seems to prove that. Cape Spear is that little finger furthest east.

Cape Spear was used as  lookout point during WWII.  This is the cannon and bunker left from that time.

                                                                     We climbed many steps and a few hills to get to the top.  Cape Spear is also the oldest remaining lighthouse on this coast.  Above is a lighthouse, but not THE lighthouse.

                                                      This is the lighthouse and the keepers house which was built around the circular lighthouse.

  

We saw some great scenery here also.  Saw an minke whale.  There were even a few icebergs but they were far out on the horizon and only visible with our binoculars.  Hopefully we will see some a little closer that can be photographed.




We drove to Pippy Park which was our campground.  The views were not what we had been used to, but you can't have it all.