Port au Basques,Nf, Northward

The big boat disgorged us in Port au Basque mid afternoon on the 3rd of July. The road north was smooth and limited access so we let the bikes eat asphalt to make some time, of course with the ever constant vigil for mounties.We made the 120 mi. to Stevenville without incident and found our lodging.It was a bit early for dinner so Smoke and I decided to make the big loop around the peninsula. Beaver demured.Loop turned out to be about 90 mi. and followed the coastline but was quite scenic.The entire loop is primarily residential with houses being built on cliffs overlooking the sea 1-200 ft. below...absolutely gorgeous building sites. If such sites were available in the U.S.,they would be worth 1/2 million dollars for a 1/2 acre lot and some mass tort lawyer would build a huge monument to himself on it....but here, the houses were typical Newfy fare with neat small to medium clapboard houses and gravel driveways.Obviously these magnificent building sites are inexpensive.I thought it curious that the rich and famous have not built here. Then I begin to notice that many of the houses had a pile of firewood in the side yard about the size of two school buses parked nose to tail...Aha! a clue...the summers here are short and the winters grim...boog