What's Red and White and has plenty of rocks?

Rose Blanche, maybe? About 45km east of Port aux Basques (where the ferry departs to Nova Scotia) is a community called Rose Blanche. With a population of about 340 people, it’s rather small and nondescript, as far as communities that hug a harbour in Newfoundland go. The name Rose Blanche is apparently a corruption of the French words "roche blanche", in reference to the white rocks along the shore.  

However, we did not want to visit Rose Blanche to see the shoreline rocks. We were there to see it’s lighthouse.

The Rose Blanche Lighthouse is the only stone lighthouse in Newfoundland. Built in 1871 with stone from a nearby granite quarry, it tells the tales of many heroic rescues along the rocky shores of the North Atlantic Ocean. I'm pretty sure I heard the ghostly voices of the lighthouse keepers telling those tales as we toured the building that day.

A privy with a view

Also, notably, James Delaney Buffet was born in Rose Blanche. He was the grandfather of singer/songwriter Jimmy Buffet. James Delaney Buffet was a sailor and had a great influence on Jimmy’s life. Jimmy wrote the song, The Captain and the Kid as a tribute to his grandfather.

Oddly, and much like everywhere we went in Newfoundland, no horn was tooted regarding the connection to Jimmy Buffet. I did not find out about his grandfather until I was doing research to write this post!