Newfoundland Day 7

We did the Gros Morne mountain trail today, but just the lower part, not the summit. It was an ok trail, but so many bugs!!

The clouds were so cool, rolling in over the mountains. 

Dinner was at Chanterelles - restaurant associated with Sugar Hill Inn. Good, but not as good as Black Spruce.

Back on our deck for last evening in Newfoundland.

Newfoundland Day 6

We stayed in a nice AirBNB in Norris Point - a little studio home right on the waterfront with a deck overlooking the water, next to a trail, next to the ferry. 

We walked to the other end of the street and saw the Tablelands in the distance while enjoying our coffee. 

We drove over to Woody Point and hiked the Lookout Hill Trail.

The Tablelands are an area of the earth's mantle (upper mantle) that was pushed upward during the initial movement of the continents and over time the crust overlying this mantle was eroded away. This is the place on earth where the mantle is most easily accessible. 

Dinner was at Black Spruce which is the restaurant associated with Neddies Inn. It was really good! 

after dinner views from where we stayed.

Newfoundland Day 5

So sad this is going by so quickly...

After a lovely tea and breakfast looking out at the water at Norris Arm, we drove to Gros Morne. I had booked the Western Brook Pond boat tour. It's a 30min walk there on a pretty flat gravel path and you get closer and closer to the fjord. Then it's a 2 hour boat ride. It was beautiful and the commentary was very helpful and enjoyable. Unfortunately since we did the Doubtful Sound overnight boat last year in New Zealand, it wasn't as novel. But a couple we met yesterday at the iceberg tour said it was the highlight of their 3 weeks in Newfoundland. 

We had a lovely dinner in Rocky Harbour. We even had Moose en Croute!

It was delicious.

Newfoundland Day 4

After a lovely stay in Glovertown, we headed over to Twillingate. Just before leaving, I got a phone call saying put iceberg tour was being cancelled :( However, I was able to get rebooked on a different company. 

We used Iceberg Quest and took the 1pm boat. Apparently, the iceberg that had been close to shore the previous day had moved farther out so the planned 2 hour trip became closer to 3h30. This meant we didn't get on the boat until 1:30 and didn't get back until 5pm. But we got to see this wonderful huge iceberg! 

beautiful and majestic. 

Then we had a lovely seafood dinner at Sansome's and headed to Norris point. Our Airbnb has an amazing view. 

Newfoundland Day 3

Another epic day of puffins. 

We went to the Elliston puffin viewing area again this morning but there were too many people there and sadly no puffins on the mainland. Very disappointing. 

We had Coffee and scones at the bicycle Cafe in Bonavista before packing up and heading to Spillars Cove. We saw a lot of people with cameras and tripods looking at puffins on a sea stack, but not very close. 

The hike was beautiful and was supposed to take 1 hr but it took us 3 because we had to stop to see so many puffins!!

We then drove to Terra Nova for a hike on Ochre Hills and then to Glovertown. 

Great day!

Newfoundland Day 2

What an amazing day!  

Started out with a soak in the hot tub at Cliff Edge Retreat before getting on the road. 

A little over an hour to Chance Cove trail. This was a great little 1 hr hike with beautiful sea views with sea stacks. The water is so clear and blue/green! The trail itself was great with gravel and wood chip ground cover. 

1h45 to Trinity where we did the Skerwink trail. It totally lives up to it's hype. It's supposed to take a little over an hour but we must have spent 2 hrs there. There were just so many whales to see! I saw one humpback breech and a couple trail flips. It was a beautiful hike even in the rain. The fog rolled in so we saw and heard the little lighthouse in action. 

Another 36min and we were in Elliston - our destination for the night. 

We had dinner at Nanny's root cellar kitchen and it was really great. 

Then, we went to the puffin viewing site. It was amazing!!! There were puffins on the mainland walking right next to us. I could unzoom fast enough!

Definitely a dream come true!!!

Newfoundland Day 1

We arrived after 11pm so there was nothing to see. 

But in the morning we awoke to this. 

It was a beautiful view of the Witless Estruary Islands. It was great. I saw lots of gulls being gulls. But then...I looked more closely in the water and on the rocks. Thousands of Puffins! I took some pictures and then we saw whales! 

This was all before we went on a whale and puffin tour (Gatherall 's) where we saw 10's of thousands of puffins and other birds, minke whales, humpbacks, and dolphins! All before noon today!

Here are some pictures from my camera's LCD for an idea.