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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve

st-brides · The Cape Shore

A ten-thousand-bird gannet colony you can walk to - no boat required.

Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve on the Cape Shore is famous for Bird Rock, a roughly 100-metre sandstone sea stack separated from the headland by a narrow chasm and whitewashed by nesting northern gannets. The trail to the viewpoint runs about 1.4 km each way (20-30 minutes) across meadows and barrens with wild iris and grazing sheep. Kittiwakes, murres, razorbills, guillemots, cormorants, and fulmars round out the colonies. The reserve covers 64 square kilometres and was established in 1983. It is roughly 200 km (2.5 hours) from St. John's via the Trans-Canada and Route 90, and about an hour from Argentia. Entry is free; the interpretation centre is open May to October; pets are prohibited; dress for cool, damp, foggy weather even in summer.

How to get there

Roughly 200 km (2.5 hours) from St. John's via the Trans-Canada and Route 90 on the Cape Shore; the Bird Rock viewpoint is a 1.4 km (20-30 minute) walk from the parking lot across meadows and barrens.

Mind yourself

Open headland with a narrow chasm at Bird Rock: stay on the marked trail, keep back from the cliff edge, and give the nesting colony and grazing sheep their distance.

Fact

Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road