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Northwest Newfoundland is a peninsula from Gros Morne Naitonal Park, South of L'Anse aux Meadows in far North. This as an area that can not lose.

Today we travel to Gros Morne National Park. Our first stop, however, was off the Newfoundland Insectarium Deer Lake. They have a tropical butterfly garden and views of many insects in the world. Some of them are huge. But the most dangerous to humans appear to be smaller as the mosquito.

Out of Gros Morne. We camped at Lomond River Campground, outside the park. For $ 16.00 AC, received full connection. The campgrounds in the park $ 29.00 per night charge for any service. That's pretty steep. It took the trail to walk along the river Lomond, a salmon river. The salmon were not working, but the scenery was outstanding.

Thursday August 21, 2003

Off we went hiking today in one of the many trails in the park. We chose the Green Garden Trail. There are two versions: the long and short. Of course, chose the short, only nine miles long. We avoid the hill along the track of one. But do not miss going down to the beach. What goes down must go up, etc. The views were spectacular. The garden is known for its sea stacks and sea caves when the tide rose. The mountains are a challenge, but WOW! Neither words nor pictures can do justice to the variety of beauty. Again the weather was perfect. The rain will come, however.

Friday August 22, 2003

This morning it rained. In the afternoon the rain stopped and we were able to walk the trail of the Tablelands. The Tablelands is an interesting phenomenon in Gros Morne. Millions of years ago when the Appalachian Mountains were formed by a collision between the African Continent and the North American continent, the Tablelands if the agitation of the ocean floor. What were are deposits of heavy metals such as nickel, iron, manganese, etc., that do not support much life. The life of rare plant is found where there is water running the slopes of the mountains .. The plant Provincial Newfoundland, the pitcher plant, grows in abundance. She does not need soil nutrients. It receives its nourishment from insects drawn to his death inside the interior of the plant-Yum, Yum! Audrey II, where are you? Visually, the area looks like someone stripped extracted from the region and left mounds of slag as remembered. This time, however, the man is not responsible. The tops of the mountains are relatively flat, giving the name of the Tablelands. Across the road is the Green Gardens trail, which is comparatively luxuriant growth. This trail took yesterday.

The trays went to Trout Lake, once a fjord. The delta formed and closed the fjord, becoming an inland lake. Here the trays place to the left while cliffs green up to the right. The contrast of geological landscapes are breathtaking. Neither pictures nor words can adequately describe the beauty.

The way back home stop at the Discovery Centre, which explains many of the unique features of this world renowned park. The exposures were made with a sense of humor to take some the stuffiness of unpronounceable names and geological ages in the developing world.

Saturday, August 23, 2003

Another cloudy day. We wanted make the trip fjord in Western Brook Pond. The lagoon is the name of Newfoundland to a lake. WB pond was once an open fjord filled with salt water. Over the years, her mouth full of debris and water is only fresh snow melt and rain. The water is almost pure, sustaining life very little. This means that there are very few fish, plants and some bacterial life. After parking, we have to walk almost an hour for the boat ramp through a variety of coastal ecosystems: bogs, swamps, forests boreal, etc. Once we arrived at the pier with 120 other tourists, were greeted with a downpour. Welcome to the fjords. A fjord is literally carved in a finger mountains for thousands of years of glacial flow in the making .. The walls of the mountains rise nearly 500 meters into the water more than 2,500 feet into the sky. Combined with the erosion of water and air, these monuments of greatness is constantly changing. Rockfalls can occur anytime, and do.

The boat ride takes us through the entire length the fjord, about 16 km. Clouds, mist, mist, sun and occasional rain playing with our senses to move through the canyons.

After two and a half years hours, returning to the dock for the walk back. Everyone was a buzz with the travel experience.

We headed north out of the park and wisely stopped at Parson's View Pond Bay St. Lawrence. Almost immediately came a gust of sea with rain and winds buffeting our trailer. We're happy to have a roof. When the rain stopped we were rewarded with a beautiful sunset and afterglow, one of the best we had from Sarasota, FL. We also learn here that the earth is actually round. With our GPS in hand tried our point of satellite dish at 22 degrees. Even if we were fifty feet over a cliff, we could not get a signal. To all members of the Flat Earth Society: "You are wrong."

Sunday, August 24, 2003

Started our journey north on the peninsula. Our first stop was the Arches, a natural phenomenon of four arches carved into a rock. Further, the port of Daniel at the home of Myra Bennett, the Florence Nightingale of the North. She gave up and down the coast as the only medical doctor at all, offering more than 700 babies, setting bones, performing surgeries and tending to health care general population. The city was news yesterday, with the funeral of the modern physician, who would have killed her baby and then herself.

Port au Choix is a Historic Site National, having been the home of Marine Atlantic, Dorset Indians and many other tribes. All records left in the land of their habitation in the area. All along the coast are small towns, whose main occupations were fishing or sealing. Today, the government banned fishing for cod, and set monthly limits for sole, turbot, lobster, crab and other seafood. From the number of lobster traps seen along the highway, the lobster business must be very good in the area. On the opposite of the road are the Long Range Mountains, part of the Appalachian Mountain Range. The scenery is breathtaking.

Saw Labrador across the Strait of Belle Isle. We did Reservations for the ferry from Cartwright to Goose Bay for the night of Friday. We have to spend a few days on the peninsula. The road took us across the peninsula, near the edge north. Here the land is wetlands, home to the largest concentration of moose and caribou on the island. We spent the night along the road near a quarry. Until now, no moose or caribou. Maybe they are afraid of Morgana. We saw an eagle flying along the coast: a first for us.

Along the road in the bog areas residents plant their gardens, usually potatoes, turnips, onions, cabbage, etc., all the ingredients for a dinner real "feedbacks". His plots are twenty twenty and up. A few miles closer to the cities. No hunting of another garden, except for the moose and caribou.

– Monday, August 25 2003

Depart from L'Anse aux Meadows (Anse is a French term for former Cove), a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The site was discovered by Drs. Stine and Helge Ingstad who had been wanted by the Viking settlement called Vinland in the New World. From the Norse sagas and maps drawn knew that the Vikings came to the area around 1000 AD. They traveled the route taken and recorded by the Viking sagas and stopped in isolated villages, asking if there were any ruins in the area. When they arrived at L'Anse aux Meadows, after hundreds of disappointments, the fisherman George Decker took them a few ruins in pastoral areas. The origins are still unknown. It could have been from the paleoeskimo stroke or other aboriginal tribes. With the permission of Viking ruins discovered c. 1000 AD. They found an iron foundry, the first in North America, with the remains of slag remaining. With the help of the National Geographic Society, discovered eight buildings, including houses, workshops, blacksmithing and oven. They came to believe that a group of 70-90 people settled here as a starting point for further exploration south. They are led to believe that Leif Eiriksson even spent some time in the settlement, where ships were repaired and sailors were given a safe haven. The site is directly connected to the Labrador Current, which extends from Greenland and Labrador Newfoundland and passes. From the site you can see the coast of Labrador about twenty miles away. Were also found in Europe Pine chips, used for ship building and a brass pin to hold their clothes together. Nobody knows why the area was abandoned. Inuit legend says that they fought with strange men and drove them. Also on-site is a modern reconstruction of a Viking village Iron Age. For security reasons most adequate ventilation and fire is propane. The rest of the building is very authentic, judging by the memory of my visit years ago similar structures in Europe.

On the way out of the parking lot, we found our first moose, three bulls and one cow. They were on the roadside, the males establishing chewing their cud, while the female was about them. After a while she gave up on them and walked out into the forested area. In one month, the scenario will change and the males will not be so happy. Is rutting season and they will be competing against each other for the loving care of the cow. Now they are acting like couch potatoes, munching on some snacks and watching the tourists.

Our next stop was the Black Tickle Ecomuseum of berries. Here local berries are made into jams and other delicacies. These berries include such exotic names as apple bake, squash, grouse, crows, blue, black, biscuit, etc. The visitor can view the manufacturing process of products through glass windows and then some samples products for sale.

Our next step is the burning of Cape Ecological Reserve. Guided tours are given by staff of the Provincial Park Pistolet twice daily. But it was too late for them and went on our own. The area looks like a barren rock with patches of green interspersed. In these green areas are more than three hundred varieties different plants, at least, thirty are extremely rare and some are only found on this site. What makes this place so unique is the weather patterns. The area is about one hundred meters above the beach. The winds and waves have carved out of the sea caves and other interesting oddities. Those same winds, frequent rain and constant oscillations between warm and cold hands make the area a unique ecosystem. Many of the flowers are the size of a pinhead. You have to be careful where you walk lest you crush one of them. There are trails you can go to other parts of the reservation. They are very narrow and is the drop-off to the sea usually fatal. Has the tail one way, but then I saw storm clouds rapidly growing in the West. Seeing that escape was very slippery when wet, I did not want to take a dip cold waters. So I went back to safety.

Our final stop was St. Anthony to take the necessary steps. This is the home of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, a missionary doctor, who helped develop the area and meet the needs of the settlers about 100 years ago.

Tuesday August 26, 2003

More rain and wind today, with temperatures in F. 40 We are happy that we did our sightseeing yesterday. We made the decision to drive the boat and go to St. Barbe Labrador. We arrived at the box office in plenty of time for the 13:00 crossing, but were told it was only dangerous goods. We booked a crossing 18:00. Mags was very interested in the departure of the ferry, with the bow of the ship, like the closing of the mouth of a shark. So for the next five hours he did an Otis Redding (Sittin 'on the Dock of the Bay), had lunch and read while the wind howled around us.

At 17:30 we were the first to board the ship and had a position of nose stern the boat is open at both ends to facilitate the movement of cars and trucks. The crossing took only 1 ½ hours, fighting the winds and the current Labrador. Many passengers were using the white bags. The Apollo is a widow too, in need of some TLC. It has cabins, a sit-down restaurant and cafeteria, recreation area for children, and some living room recliners. The latter were difficult to obtain. Since we were the first to board we were lucky. They broadcast the news on television in front of us. Because of the headwinds that we are a little late in Blanc Sablon, PQ. Mags was delighted again, because she saw the hole in the boat this time. (She entertains with ease.) First off the boat, we found a perfect parking spot on a hill overlooking Blanc Sablon, on one side and L'Anse au Clair, NC on the other: A Tale of Two Cities and Provinces.

For our efforts the day, we were rewarded with a beautiful sunset and stars afterglow all colors of the spectrum.

About the Author

John and Maggie Pelley are Geriatric Gypsies. Both of us are retired from the rat race of working. We are full-time RVers, who ran away from home. We began our travels on the East Coast and, like the migrating birds, seek the warmth of the seasons. No more shoveling snow in Chicago. We have discovered volunteering with the National Park System. During our travels we have found that each town has a story to tell: some are more interesting than others. Both of us enjoy good listening music as we go. John has a CD he has recorded of Native American flure music. We have learned that RVing has a learning curve. We want to pass on some advice the help others avoid this trecherous curve. Life is an adventure. We are living it to the utmost.

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