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Twillingate

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 Twillingate / 10x10 CAROL HAS HOPES and plans and goals for Canada. One is to see a moose. Another is to see whales. Yet another, to see puffins.   And so, as we figure out where to go during the time that she's with me, we include these goals. Gros Morne we visit in part because of the gorgeous pictures we have seen of the place, and partly because of the possibility of moose.   We spend a long afternoon there, but see no moose. E ver hopeful, we head northeast toward Twillingate. We have heard that it’s lovely there, with beautiful vistas and cliffs - and whales.   The drive takes us through miles and miles and miles and miles - and MILES - of pine trees. I am rarely bored on a drive, but the monotony of this one is beyond description.  We see no animals, virtually no houses, almost no towns. We get off the Trans Canada Highway one time on the way to Twillingate, mostly just to see something different. Anything but pine trees.   Twillingate is wort