This
morning was an early start with an hour drive to Western Brook Pond where we
took the boat tour of the lake. It is a
landlocked fjord, but since it is all fresh water they cannot call it a proper
fjord so by default all freshwater bodies of water in Newfoundland are referred
to as ‘ponds’ regardless of size. The
exposed rock, carved by glaciers, were 1,250 million years old. To get to the boat tour you park by the main
road and have to walk about 45 minutes in to where the boat is. The land all around the pond is a bog. While on the boat we saw a black bear FAR off
in the distance. It was a pretty place and
well preserved. To get the boats into
the pond they had to pull one in over the frozen land in the winter, so as to
not disrupt the plant life that grows in the bog, another was airlifted in and
2 others were built there in a boat shed.
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| Black Bear |
After a
bite to eat at the café there we hiked back to the car and went to Shallow
beach. It is a beach, with white sand
and a lot of jellyfish. We were amazed
at how many jellyfish there were on the shoreline. Not sure if during low tide they get beached
then high tide pulls them back out again, but there were a lot of them. The water was cold, so there was not a lot of
swimming in the ocean. They all got in,
but did not last very long. It took Paul
a long time to get warmed up after his swim.
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