As the sun sets on 2007, I thought I’d show our view of the sun setting from the Seaside Restaurant in the town of Trout River, which is on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. Great food, great view, and live Newfoundlander music! A teenage boy (accordion, vocals) and teenage girl [...]
This is the Seaside Restaurant in the town of Trout River, NL (the town near where the previous RATPOW was taken). Doesn’t look like much, but this was a *wonderful* place to eat. NL is definitely NOT a cultural desert, even on the island’s remote western shore. Leo and I ate a [...]
We stopped by Trout Brook Pond on our last full day of driving around on Newfoundland’s west coast and Gros Morne National Park. This lake is similar to Western Brook Pond in that it was formed as a fjord many thousand years ago. The land between the glacier-carved cleft in the hills [...]
Here is something we saw lots of on the island of Newfoundland: wildflowers, boats, sheds, and lobster traps (those grey things by the building in the distance at center). Nearly all of the houses we saw were wood, too, and several needed a paint job. The economy in NL is not very [...]
Leo and I took the Tablelands trail in Gros Morne National Park, on the west coast of the island of Newfoundland. It’s a relatively short trail, and it ends at a creek with some rapids. But all around us is a landscape like this: barren, mostly devoid of any plant growth, with [...]