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Labrador

August 1, 2019 – August 4, 2019

The ferry from Newfoundland to Labrador actually lands a few kilometres south of the east-west Labrador/Quebec border in the remote town of Blanc Sablon. From here you can drive about 70 kilometres east along the south shore of Quebec, then take a series of ferries to hop from town to town, or you can drive north into Labrador. We headed north.

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You’d Better Belize it!

Okay, nice title, but I cannot take credit for it, we saw it on t-shirts all over the place.

Back on the mainland we picked up the truck and did some grocery shopping to equip us for the next few days. We drove inland to the Tropical Education Centre campground, east of the capital of Belize, Belmopan. The camp is located adjacent to the Belize Zoo and is used as an education centre for school groups and researchers and is popular with birding enthusiasts. The campsite had a nice screened in swimming pool and a dining hall, hot showers and clean flushing toilets. All was pretty good except for the bugs. We are not sure what they were, but they would take a serious chunk out of you and seemed to particularly love Randi and me, although we all got our share of annoying bites.

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