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Games

Come in. Pull up a chair.

Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Witless Bay Ecological Reserve

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A quarter-million puffins nesting on four islands half an hour from the city.

The Witless Bay Ecological Reserve protects the four islands of Witless Bay - Gull, Green, Great, and Pee Pee - across 31 square kilometres, almost entirely marine. It holds North America's largest Atlantic puffin colony, with more than 260,000 breeding pairs, and the world's second-largest Leach's storm-petrel colony at over 620,000 pairs. The islands lie between Bay Bulls and Bauline East, about 30 minutes from St. John's via Route 10. Landing is prohibited; viewing is by licensed boat operators including Gatherall's, Great Island Boat Tours, Molly Bawn, and O'Brien's. The area was first protected in 1964 and became an ecological reserve in 1983.

How to get there

Boat tours leave from Bay Bulls and Bauline East, about 30 minutes from St. John's via Route 10; landing on the islands is prohibited — the birds come to the boat.

When

Puffins May-September; whales and icebergs early summer

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Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road