Motorcycle trip to Burin Peninsula, NL ferry boat to St. Pierre, France

Posted by Tammy Perry on Aug 2, 2012 in Ride Reports | 0 comments

Last weekend, I decided last minute to meet up with my Road King friend Brian in Burin for a trip to St. Pierre. We could not take the bikes on the ferry, but I figured a few fun pics of St. Pierre might be interesting for someone

The ferry and B&B were booked Friday am, and I left Friday after work with minimal luggage and a full tank of gas. The weather was fabulous – until of course I hit the isthmus.

THere was visible rain in the distance so I pulled over to haul on some rain gear.

I could smell it, see it and I could even hear the rain at one point – but nothing more than a few sprinkles as the rain stayed ahead of me.

Left CBS at 5:30pm and arrived in St. Lawrence at 9:30pm. The wind was daunting, and almost frightening in places where my front tire felt like it was going to lift. I had daylight until 9pm, which was wonderful!

The next morning – Brian and I meandered around on the way to the 9:30 ferry – a little too much meandering resulted in us being LATE for the ferry – the manifest was already on the boat – and we had to sweet talk them into processing our ID and getting us on the boat.

On the ferry

The day was sunny and bright – and the ocean was a wee bit excited, lots of big rolling waves.

Not a lot of passengers.

The guys running the ferry were absolutely fabulous.

They were very efficient when bringing me fresh sea-sickness bags and swiftly removed the used ones.

Arrived at the dock, looked quickly at the big map just off the main street and headed off to the B&B on the hill.

I took pics of the local transportation. The place is so small, I don’t really understand the large number of cars, but there were some interesting ones for sure.

A lot of renos, improvements and construction going on.

This house is next door to the B&B

Very nice lady on the front desk, she spoke English quite well, although she did a lot of proposing… “I propose this restaurant, I propose the coffee….”