Here’s another shot from our Western Brook Pond boat tour. You can see mist from one of the waterfalls in the distance. For a sense of scale, you can see the other tour boat near the bottom left of center. Taken in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, in early July of 2007.
The thing to do in the Gros Morne National Park in western Newfoundland is to do the Western Brook Pond boat tour. The island of Newfoundland contains the Long Range Mountains, which are the northernmost extent of the Appalachians. During the last ice age glaciers scooped out valleys in the mountains, and when [...]
This is an attempt to relate what a lot of the rural landscape in Newfoundland looks like. There are deciduous trees in the towns and valleys, but fir trees dominate everywhere else. And one sees a lot of dead fir trees, too. It makes me think of a more polar version of [...]
Also on our Witless Bay Ecological Preserve boat tour (Newfoundland, Canada) we saw a mother humpback whale and her calf frolicking in the water with a school of dolphins. That was exciting! This is 4 shots from a series of 6 that I got just as the mother was diving.
On our Witless Bay (Newfoundland) boat tour we also saw a small iceberg! Admittedly this picture makes the berg look bigger than it was (it is closer to the camera than the boat in the picture)–it was really only about the same size as our tour boat. Newfoundland is visited by many icebergs [...]