Along the eastern edge, Newfoundland

denisegoldberg · September 23, 2011

The summer days rolled into August, the days flipped by faster and faster until it was time for me to jump on a plane, to head to Newfoundland for a bit of a wander with my camera. I seem to be jumping between planned trips and wandering by the seat of my pants trips. This one was planned - it was August, still prime travel season, and some of the spots I wanted to visit showed only one or two B&Bs. Hmm... sometimes planning ahead is a good thing.

I keep thinking that Newfoundland is close to home, and relatively speaking it is. It's off the east coast of North America, just 1 1/2 time zones away. (What? Don't you think the half hour time difference between Atlantic time and Newfoundland time qualifies as a half of a time zone?) I did consider driving and taking the ferry but I ruled that out fairly quickly when I realized it would take me two driving days to get to the ferry. Yikes! That seemed like too many pure travel days, so flying won out.

Except for the last two nights, it was a trip of twos - two nights in a place, leaving me a full day to wander there without any point to point travel, plus potentially part of my arrival day and part of my departure day. That worked well although I have to admit that I'm not done wandering Newfoundland. I need to go back!

I started with a late night arrival in St. John's, pulling into my home away from home (and my favorite B&B of the trip) at close to midnight. I received a warm welcome At Wit's Inn, a good night's sleep, a wonderful breakfast, then... wandering!

I started by walking up Signal Hill, taking the straight route up and a long loop back.

From paved to dirt paths, stairs and stairs and stairs...

As I reentered the city / harbor, an image of broken-down building jumped into my camera...

And oh! what a beautiful cat!

In the afternoon I visited the MUN Botanical Garden to see what kind of flowers were still in bloom.

Evening... I walked along the St. John's harbor as the sun was sinking, transitioning.

First travel day... it was time to drive from St. John's to Terra Nova National Park. Morning drive, afternoon walk in the park.

A little late day light at a spot along the Eastport Peninsula...

Morning brought reflections in Salvage (at the tip of the Eastport Peninsula) before I headed back for more wandering at Terra Nova National Park.

The end of the "out" portion of my out and back wander was Fogo Island, home of the Fogo Island Arts Corporation and their unique studios. What a beautiful place!

Did you know that Fogo is one of the four corners of the flat earth?

I only had two more days after Fogo Island. My first was spent heading to the end of the Bonavista Peninsula. At one point I was beginning to doubt my plans - those peninsulas seem to go on forever - but Bonavista was worth the drive.

My last day took me to Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America, before heading back to St. John's for one last night, including a setting sun walk to the top of Signal Hill.

Newfoundland is still on my short list for a return visit (probably visits).

If you're interested in more photos or words, please jump to my Newfoundland 2011 galleries or to the Newfoundland entries in my blog.

--- Denise

knapph · September 24, 2011

Thanks for posting these photos Denise. I think a drive up to Newfoundland is in our future.

chrisdg · September 24, 2011

Beautiful Series! Place looks fantastic. Must go.

denisegoldberg · September 24, 2011

knapph wrote: »

Thanks for posting these photos Denise. I think a drive up to Newfoundland is in our future.

I highly recommend it. This was my second trip, and I haven't had enough yet. The first trip was two years ago, to Gros Morne National Park. Both sides of the island are gorgeous.

chrisdg wrote: »

Beautiful Series! Place looks fantastic. Must go.

Thanks! It's well worth a visit.

--- Denise

Kinkajou · September 26, 2011

GORGEOUS! I love it

denisegoldberg · September 26, 2011

Kinkajou wrote: »

GORGEOUS! I love it

Thank you! I was sorry I only had a week there.

--- Denise

lifeinfocus · September 26, 2011

Beautiful work!! There are so many that I enjoy viewing. I have been working on a video for 7 days and my finger is itching to get my camera out.

Thanks for posting.
Phil

denisegoldberg · September 27, 2011

lifeinfocus wrote: »

Beautiful work!! There are so many that I enjoy viewing.

Thanks!

--- Denise

ian408 · September 27, 2011

Very nice Journey!

denisegoldberg · September 28, 2011

ian408 wrote: »

Very nice Journey!

Thanks Ian. It was an awesome trip, and it's fun to share.

--- Denise

NeilL · September 28, 2011

Good to see, thanks. Seems like there is still a bit of "wildness" in the scenery there.

Neil

denisegoldberg · September 29, 2011

NeilL wrote: »

Good to see, thanks. Seems like there is still a bit of "wildness" in the scenery there.

Thanks Neil. There's plenty of wildness to be found, and it's beautiful (to my eyes at least).

--- Denise

NeilL · September 29, 2011

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Thanks Neil. There's plenty of wildness to be found, and it's beautiful (to my eyes at least).

--- Denise

As these are to mine. Wonderful technique in many of them!

Neil

anonymouscuban · October 1, 2011

Very nice set Denise. Thank you for sharing.

denisegoldberg · October 4, 2011

anonymouscuban wrote: »

Very nice set Denise. Thank you for sharing.

...thank you for taking a look!

--- Denise

mr peas · October 4, 2011

Beautiful photos with equally beautiful colors, thanks for sharing.

denisegoldberg · October 5, 2011

mr peas wrote: »

Beautiful photos with equally beautiful colors

Thank you!

--- Denise

kdog · October 6, 2011

Excellent series, Denise and great job finding the sweet light. Looks like you had a fabulous trip. That cat has the coloring of a leopard or ocelot or something. :wow

denisegoldberg · October 7, 2011

kdog wrote: »

Excellent series, Denise and great job finding the sweet light. Looks like you had a fabulous trip. That cat has the coloring of a leopard or ocelot or something.

Thanks!

The cat's owner said it had some leopard in it.

The sights and the light were wonderful. It's funny, the day I was in Bonavista I felt like I had two different late-day light times - once at around 5:30 or 6 when a storm was blowing in from the ocean, and again at (true) sunset time.

--- Denise

Snowgirl · October 12, 2011

Hi Denise and welcome to my general area of the world. Beautiful photos of an amazing province. Should you ever decide to drive, by all means come by New Brunswick where, as Lauren will now attest, the scenery is similarly beautiful in a different way.

Ceci

denisegoldberg · October 13, 2011

Snowgirl wrote: »

Hi Denise and welcome to my general area of the world. Beautiful photos of an amazing province. Should you ever decide to drive, by all means come by New Brunswick where, as Lauren will now attest, the scenery is similarly beautiful in a different way.

Thanks Ceci! I've been to New Brunswick, both as a stepping stone to other Maritime provinces and as the sole destination of a trip. I did a wandering trip around the outer edge of New Brunswick back in 2008, and it's on my list for a return visit.

Somehow it seems that I have many more places on that list than I have time. I will definitely be planning another trip though.

--- Denise

Along the eastern edge, Newfoundland

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