Flowers Cove, NFLD, Easy, Marjorie Bridge Walking trail. Easy. 2 km total out and back, flat trail. 1 hour To paraphrase my travel guide, a thrombolite is a fossillized, bun-shaped, primitive, unicellular critter. They are very rare, I have been to Joggins fossil cliffs-, and Miguasha-UNESCO heritage site in Quebec and the Burgess Shale in Alberta,... Continue Reading →
Foreword: The first week of my Newfoundland trip was suppose to be a kayaking tour around the Bay of Exploits, the original home territory of the now extinct Beothuk People. Knowing very little about the Beothuks, I thought it would be handy to learn a little bit before I arrived. During my Planning and Prep, I... Continue Reading →
I got to pee ...badly, I jump out of the truck, flinging open the visitor center door of the Parks Canada, National Historic site at Port Aux Choix, almost breathless with urgency. I flash my park pass, but my eyes never meet the attendant's, because I am scanning the room looking for the washroom sign.... Continue Reading →
Baker's Brook Falls and its rising mist. The twisted Forest. "The trail is different each time I'm here. In the spring I search for wine-red larch cones, in early summer for wildflowers, in autumn I watch the larch trees turn bright yellow and lose their needles and in winter I ski between the dwarfed dormant... Continue Reading →
So not every stop has to end with me on the top of a hill. Sometimes my mind is just in the hills. An example of that would be on the Viking Trail towards Rocky Harbour. Yup, it is a pretty drive to say the very least, and I steer the truck around the sweeping... Continue Reading →
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