Dear Kids It"s Barney Bear writing,
We have see some really neat things!

Went on a walk around some mountains that were a rusty brown.  It was because the were formed when 2 land plates collided and the inside of the earth, called the mantle, rose above the other land.  The mantle is liquid iron.  It hardened into a mountain and has been rusting ever since.  Because the iron is poisonous only a very special few plants can grow on it,so it looks dry and barren, but water flows down it.

Have seen 5 moose- 3 in our camp ground.

Drove to the very tip of Newfoundland to see a settlement where Vikings lived for awhile 1000 years ago.  The foundations of their villages are still there.  The park has  built a village to look like their village  .Also went to a place where their are remains of 5 different Indian groups that have lived there as they passed through looking for whales from the first men  to the Eskimos we know called Inuit.  The neatest  thing we  saw there was ICEBERGs floating .  One was know to have broken off a big glacier in Greenland and took 2  years  to float there.  It is over 4 1/2 miles long!  You can tell an iceberg from regular ice because it looks blue.

Took a ferry to Labrador.  Way up near the Artic.  We drove as far as you can drive on a paved road- 50 miles.  You can only get to the rest of the country by boat or gravel road.  Because they have so much snow melt here and in New Foundland,  most of the land is a bog with mosses and low bushes growing on it. Lots of berries grow on it and people pick them.  We walked out to try picking some.  It felt like walking on a pillow!

We are in a great big ferry now with our car inside leaving Newfoundland.  I hate to leave.  It is a neat place.