We headed along the coast of Gros Morne National Park under very dark skies for a day of exploring. I'd consider it outport NFLD, however, I'm sure to be corrected by those in the know as these places were highway accessible, but we did see the remains of many fishing huts in pretty lonely places.
If I remember correctly these were the Green cliffs and a geologist would be most interested in the layers of rock sandwiched together and tipped vertically.
The boys were simply keen to climb on the rocks (look for the little black specks) and look for treasures.
I LOVED the tourism campaign in NFLD with the pair of red chairs! They have about 40 of them scattered at various scenic points throughout the national park and you can snap your photos and submit them online. Such a lovely idea and a great place to sit and drink in in the view.
This is a historically maintained site within the park and we had a short guided tour of the homestead (not shown) and the fishing shelter with boats, lobster traps and learned all about how to make salted cod!
Spot the moose and her calf in this photo! Yes, it was on full zoom, we were pretty much using binoculars!
This is the lovely boardwalk into Western Brook Pond. It's about 45 minutes each way but well worth the adventure! There is a company who runs boat tours from the visitor centre there and the boys were pretty excited - but what a cold, wet, and windy start to the trip! You can see we were pretty well bundled up.
The Western Brook Pond resembles the fjords of New Zealand minus the salt water. This pond is fresh water, but the steep cliffs and waterfalls were very much the same. Pretty ominous with the drizzly, foggy weather!
Spot another moose among the trees on the hillside above!
We dropped off 2 of the passengers here at the end of the pond, they were prepared for a 4 day hike out, over Gros Morne mountain range from here (with no sunshine in sight).
Thrilling ride on the top level of the boat - we did spend most of our time inside, I must confess, to cut down on the chilling breeze!
Our dinner plans for the evening were decided for us when we found a paper flyer on our windshield advertising a lobster dinner at a local church. LOVED this sign in the photo above "St. Mary the Virgin Cow Head". Yep, we had dinner in Cow Head Nfld. Dave & I enjoyed the delicious freshly cooked lobster and an array of salads, while the boys had homemade bread. Xavier was brave enough to try his with homemade partridgeberry jam. I think Jackson just had butter! Very friendly locals!
Left the boys in the car while we valiantly trekked out to this little lighthouse. Don't worry, mom, it was 100 meters and NO other cars in the parking lot! There was meant to be a community campfire this evening at Lobster Cove, but it was much too wet and windy.
Too wet to sit around our campsite even. So, we tried our luck with jiffy pop on the wood burner in the kitchen hut at the Norris Point KOA and playing cards for the evening. People wonder how we can afford to travel .... this is it people: pretty low key accommodations, which is all fine when its sunny, but you push through the wild weather too. Good thing we had a lobster dinner!
