Onward to Fogo

We woke up at around seven in the mourning. We had slept in the car again as our return to St. John's was unexpected. we had a seven hour ride to Fogo ahead of us and Steven wanted to get going. I insisted on finding at least one small cultural museums and so we looked around finally finding one. I didn't catch the street name though. We learned that Newfoundland's economy was founded almost entirely on the export of cod. This was the source of instability during World War one. The economy is still based on cod. almost all settlement up to world war one was entirely due to fisheries. we discovered that there had once been a boundary dispute of Newfoundland and Labrador vs. Quebec. Steven wanted to get on the road as quickly as possible so I jury rigged a wifi access point from my phone and brought out my laptop to do some more research as we drove.

I read an article explaining the maritime climate of Newfoundland and how it was responsible for the persistent rain. The proximity to the sea also regulates the temperature making for very few exceptionally cold winters.

Climate graph of St. John's

I also discovered that the population density of the island was staggeringly low! The city of St. John's barely has fifty people per square kilometre and the rest of the island barely rises above 5 people/Km^2!

This staggering evidence also applied to Fogo and to this end I tried to talk Steven out of going all the way there. He would not listen.

We drove through the terrain of the east Coast, passing small clusters of buildings and houses every few kilometres. the hills were taller then I expected but I did some research and discovered that this was just typical of Newfoundland. It was part of the Canadian shield, a large slab precambrian rock. I still don't know what that word means.