I wasn't particularly looking forward to the expedition today, a Zodiac ride on Bonne Bay, a smallish body of sea water of around 26 square miles, with people living around it, including the town of Woody Point, off which the Viking Octantis is moored. Newfoundland and Labrador form a province, initially called Newfoundland, but since 2001 known offficially by both names. Newfoundland is an island surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, and has 95% the population of the province.  Most of them are on the east side of the island where the capital of St. John's is located. The west side, though, is where we are moored.  The total population surrounding Bonne Bay is 2,765, a drop of 4% from 2016 The population of Woody Point is 244.  Peak was reached in 1966 of 341 people. The population of Canada was 20 million in 1966, but more than doubled to 41 million today. The population of this province was 493,396 in 1966, suffered the loss of the cod industry in 1992, but still increased...

 The Viking Octantis spent two nights in Halifax.  We took a bus tour of the city and nearby Peggy's Cove. Peggy's Cove. Back to Halifax, and story of the Acadians. This final minute of where the Acadians came from provides a satisfying conclusion to the origin of Cajuns in Louisiana.  We went down the Mississippi River from Memphis to New Orleans on the American Melody, and learned about the Cajuns. The British conquest of Acadia happened in 1710. In 1755, Acadians living in Port Royal, Acadia, in the portion of Canada that is now Nova Scotia, were kicked out of their homes by the British.  An estimated 10,000 to 11,500 of them began settling mostly along the Atlantic coast of the U.S., but some kept moving on, perhaps 2,500 to 3,000 ending up in southwestern Louisiana between 1764 and the 1780s. In 1863, when the Union conquered what is now Lafayette, the hub of Cajun county, Cajun was used to describe the region's inhabitants. Cajun is a rural pronunciation of Aca...

Ever heard of iceberg A23a?  It calved in 1986 and is now the  largest , verified by Guinness World Records. 263 cubic miles. 40 nautical miles by 32 nautical miles space. In 2021,  iceberg A-76  broke off from the Ronne Ice Shelf off the Weddell Sea, and was larger, but soon fractured. But the absolute largest was Iceberg B-15, about the size of Jamaica.  Calved from the Ross Ice Shelf, also Antarctica, on March 2000.  There is still a small piece, B-15AB that has grounded in the western sector of Antarctica's Amery region. About A23a, it is twice the size of Greater London, UK. Detached from the  Antarctica Filchner Ice Shelf in 1986. Was for a long time stuck on the sea-floor of the Weddell Sea, but in 2013 began wandering north toward the South Georgia Island of the Southern Ocean. There are, of course, other icebergs in the Atlantic off Antarctica. Here are the  icebergs just from Greenland. The town of Ilulissat on the shores of Disko Bay in...