Following my usual run of getting out every September weekend, October brought a few Fridays and Saturdays where the nighttime lows were low enough for me to pass.

Except there was this one weekend in mid-October with unseasonably warm overnight temps. Isy was unavailable, but I had to head up the coast for a quick overnight on the Northern Peninsula.

There are plenty of places to camp up here, but I went in search of a spot by taking a surprisingly smooth gravel road off of the NL-430, passing by a sign stating that this road was no longer maintained by transportation and works.

This was an old alignment of the only highway that leads up here, where back in the day, they bent the road to pass right next to the above three or four cabins in this unnamed locale.

I wasn't in the mood for getting invited in for drinks and so I stayed away from those cabins, even as it didn't really look like anyone was over there.

Throwing my tent up in seconds, I then walked all over the shore, exploring all of the tabular coastline.

Going into this, I wasn't sure if it was worth heading up here for a single night by myself, but this fine evening was selling me on the whole endeavour.

The next morning I had to get up at a decent hour in order to check on Kingsley, but also remember that this was October, so it wasn't exactly an early sunrise, haha.

Not being much for mornings, I enjoyed waking up with the early morning light instead of the tent becoming overheated with the midday sun.

This being one of my favourite areas of Newfoundland, I've long thought about cycling here from up top at Green Island Cove, to say, Cow Head. The only thing that tempers my excitement about the lack of hills here, is how often this coast is battered by wind, sleet, and rain.

That wasn't the case this morning though, so for the first time I bagged a few kilometers of NL-430 cycling coverage, as I drove up to River of Ponds and then went for a cycle back down to the south.

14.3 kilometers of the NL-430 down, 398.7 kilometers to go, haha.¹

1 - I have very little desire to cycle in Gros Morne, so this is never happening.

Recently I'd heard about an Anglican church that closed down over in Eastern Newfoundland, where the church didn't discuss selling the building back to the town, but instead went about dismantling it.

This put some of these small town Anglican churches on my radar even in terms of documenting in-use structures. The internet returns very few photos of these places, and Google hasn't even went down some of the roads.

Unfortunately, St. Peter's in River of Ponds was locked up tight.

St. Aiden's Anglican Church in Bellburns was open to check out. Bellburns is tiny (population: 53), but I was pleasantly surprised after I entered their little church.

From Bellburns, I want to say I drove all 2.5 hours home and only stopped for taquitos, but the stupid roller grill was still closed due to Covid, so I must've had something else to eat that I've long forgotten.

Good times on the Northern Peninsula.