Wow, one province down, four more to go! It has been an amazing few days in Newfoundland and I'm sad to say goodbye but, we are on our way to Nova Scotia where more adventures await.
These two pictures were taken on the beach at Sandy Cove, where we stayed Friday night in two cabins. The beach was beautiful to stroll down, which we did, on Saturday morning.
After packing up at Sandy Cove we started our trip to Deer Lake. We have done quite a few hours of driving while here and it makes sense to have a picture of one of our cars.
We got to Deer Lake Saturday evening and pretty much did nothing for the rest of the day. On Sunday we started pretty early though, compared to when we have been getting up, and spent the day in Gros Morne National Park! It was beautiful, especially with all the fall colours. We first went to the coast and explored the tidal pools! Everyone was super excited about that. We found a few crabs, a dead jellyfish, and lots of shells. It was quite a bit chillier and we are all wearing our warmest clothes.
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| Ain't he cute? |
We also found a two story driftwood house on the beach! And yes, I said two stories, it was quite the building.
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| Inside the driftwood house |
After the tidal polls we went for a walk on the boardwalk trail. It was 6km round trip and took us through boggy, marshy, and wooded areas. It eventually lead us to a lake where we had lunch. It was a beautiful walk!
The boardwalk reminded us of many different things: Sam, Frodo, and Gollum in the dead marshes (yes, I'm a LOTR fan), The Land Before Time, and countless others. The clouds over the mountains really made the view even more gorgeous! It was great to do even though it was colder than it was in the morning.
We then drove to a trail which we walked up into the Tablelands, or "The Bottom of the Top of the World." It's where the earth's plates pushed up and kind of flipped over, revealing the stone which was under the earth. The stones turn an orangey colour when they come in contact with oxygen, so that's why everything is that colour. It was very cool. It felt like you were on Mars! The photograph really doesn't do the orange colour justice. Everything was orange! The walk was only 4km in total, wich was probably for the better because on the way back the wind was soooo cold!
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Sometimes we like to fool around.
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| The end of the trail |
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| Us pretending to be Mars explorers |
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| Some orange rock |
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| Some serpentine rock |
It was an awesome two days; a great end to our travels in Newfoundland! I am currently writing this blog post on the ferry headed to Nova Scotia. I hope all of you are enjoying our blog so far!
