Newfoundland – The Rock

Peaceful, serene, reflective beauty! We felt very comfortable here amongst all the colourful places and the most lovely, musically talented, and friendly people with fun accents that sound very Irish, and sentences that often end in “me dear” 😁 Hard to choose, but this just might be our favourite Maritime province 🥰 Lord willing, we will return here again. While on this island we split our time between Gros Morne National Park at one end of the island and St. Johns at the other end

Gros Morne National Park

We hiked along the coasts and shores, walked through the cutest little fishing villages, took a boat tour through a glacier-carved, land-locked fjord … all the while in awe of the most spectacular magnificence of Gods creation! 😊 We drove to numerous out of the way small towns where we experienced the most friendly local people!  even got invited to a  $10/plate moose smorgasbord complete with more fun energetic music!  Maritime folks go above and beyond to make visitors feel welcome … we were included and treated as if we were part of their community!

After the Boat Tour we drove to the little village of Cow Head where we’d heard they were celebrating their Fall Festival … and it was “not to be missed” 🤓 Driving into town the first thing we saw was vehicles parked on both sides of the main road. A group of people had congregated in front of a small Museum where local Newfoundland musicians were playing all manor of different instruments. Between songs they took turns re-telling funny stories that had been passed down through generations of their families.

I really tried to scale down the amount of pictures to include here … but wow it was just all SO interesting and beautiful!

Green Point – Fascinating geological cliffs – I struggle to even come up with words to describe what we saw here, and the pictures hardly do it justice … vertical sediment layers of rock, shale, fossils … we walked around and marvelled at the unique beauty at this site! Geological wonder!

Gander, Newfoundland – a one night Harvest Host stopover in the parking lot of the Aviation Museum on route to St Johns on the other side of the Island

St. Johns – an absolutely beautiful city!

Terry Fox, a Canadian icon – Marathon of Hope – Mile 0 Memorial at the harbour. Our visit to this site was emotional for both of us.  He was such and brave and courageous young man! and still an inspiration today. He ran 5,373kms – nearly a marathon a day for 143 straight days!

Very San Francisco’ish with steep hills, VERY narrow streets and confusing 5-6 entry intersections! So except for the driving, we loved St. Johns!

Signal Hill – We read about more interesting history here and such beauty! We started out on a trail from the top of the hill not realizing how far it went … ended up going all along the coast, into the harbour, then through a very old residential area that eventually looped us back up to Signal Hill … turned into a 4hr adventure including the random visit with community locals! Anyways we could see Fort Amherst directly across the harbour and Cape Spear in the distance – these were the other two main attractions we wanted to see before leaving St John

Fort Amherst

Cape Spear – Where better to begin the day than where the day begins 🌤 Cape Spear is the easternmost point of the whole continent! Here we got to experience the sunrise first before it rises anywhere else!  We were so excited for this unique opportunity and we won’t soon forget it!  It was a tad chilly and very windy so we were surprised to see about 20 other people out there doing the same thing! As I was walking back to our truck in the parking lot a lady came rushing up to me when she noticed the Champion Chev licence plate cover and BC plates and she could hardly wait to ask if we’d driven all the way from Trail 😅 She and her husband had just flown in the day before; they live in Montrose!