Via Gulf of St. Lawrence Leaving Cape Breton, we began our overnight sail to Corner Brook, Newfoundland. It is located at the far end of the Bay of Islands, an extensive inlet located on the west coast of Newfoundland. It is a sub-basin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, stretching about 50 km inland. With a…
Category: Newfoundland
Atlantic Provinces
Rolande and I recently traveled to the Atlantic Provinces, where we spent 13 days sightseeing, visiting friends and family and of course, taking the occasional photograph. Today, I’ll share a small few of the many pictures I took along the way. We began our travels in Newfoundland, including a trip to the small town of…
Last Word(s) on Newfoundland
My final post on Newfoundland. I’ve chosen today’s pictures from our travels on the west coast of the Northern Peninsula, all the way to St. Anthony. My first picture shows a typical stack of lobster pots, seen at the village of St. Pauls. We saw similar stores of pots in every village we visited along the…
Gros Morne National Park
One of the highlights of our recent holiday in Newfoundland was Gros Morne National Park, a world heritage site located on the west coast. The park takes its name from Newfoundland’s second-highest mountain peak (at 806 m or 2,644 ft) located within the park. Its French meaning is “large mountain standing alone,” or more literally “great sombre.” The…
Avalon Peninsula
During our recent stay in St. John’s we took the opportunity to visit parts of the Avalon Peninsula, a large peninsula that makes up the southeast portion of the island of Newfoundland. We traveled the eastern coast as far south as Witless Bay and ventured out on the Baccalieu Trail on the Northern Point of the peninsula….