Watercolour
©2019 Charlene Brown
Our tour of the reconstructed
Colony of Avalon south of St. John’s included a hike around the settled part of the peninsula to see the original home sites, remnants of the water system, newly planted and strongly fenced food gardens, a look at a string of islands across the mouth of the harbour which still accommodate small herds of sheep that spend their summers there - unaccompanied but safe from land predators. We also explored various waterfront buildings dating from
the 1620s, housing a working bakery and a (non-working) alchemist’s operation as
well as furnishings bearing the carved insignia of Elizabeth I.
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The bergy bits in the lower left of the painting are the remnants of stranded icebergs. Hard to believe that this cove, at latitude 47 degrees N is more than a degree further south than Victoria (48.4 degrees N) - where we have palm trees.