Day 34 & 35 – Driving from Codroy Valley to Gros Morne National Park and our visit to the park in Newfoundland
Day 34 was a travelling day from Codroy Valley to Rocky Harbour as the weather forecast for that area was sunshine for the next few days and the rest of Newfoundland predicted rain. Of course you can only trust the weatherman for 50% even here in Newfoundland. We did have reasonable weather for our drive but certainly not the sunshine forecasted, and the sun shone only a bit in our days here. They could sure use some more talented meteorologists here, Erik!
We started late and it was a long but nice drive to our destination point. The TransCanada Highway is a smooth paved highway: one of the best ones we have travelled so far. We went to gas up at a Canadian Tire gas station in Corner Brook but I think every one in Corner Brook was running out of gas as it was chaos at this station. One customer quipped that you would have thought the gas was free it was so busy, but we did get gas again to move on.
The campground in Rocky Harbour is really nice and clean but internet was not the best. Just as we got going it would shut down and as we are not at our trailer much during the day we did not get much done on our blog these last few days.
Day 35 – Our first full day here and we decided to walk the Coastal trail which consists of a 3 km hike with the coast on one side and a bog on the other side. Newfoundland has lots and lots of bogs. The path was so narrow and uneven that I decided not to walk back on the same path but just walk towards our campsite along the highway. Leo walked back and picked me up 6 km later. Later in the day we walked around a pond, Berry Head Pond, which was a nice walk as well and mostly boardwalk because of the boggy terrain. These walks would even be nicer in June or July when the flowers are in full bloom.
That is was about it for day 34 and 35, pictures of these days can be found here.
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Hallo fijn weer iets van jullie te horen en te zien! In het boek dat ik gelezen heb, wordt newfoundland afgeschilderd als een tamelijk woest en onherbergzaam oord. Klopt het? De foto van dat bos ziet er niet erg gezond uit, na een brand of de tijd van het jaar of totaal op....? Dus nu wordt het nog meer wandelen, lekker toch? Fijne dagen weer.Groetje,Jeanne
ReplyDeleteJullie hebben heel wat gelopen de laatste dagen! Ik wist eerst niet wat een bog was maar ben nu wijzer.
ReplyDeleteNou door of langs een moeras lopen lijkt me ook niet zo! De foto's zijn weer mooi, maar ik miste het commentaar.Ik hoop dat het weer beter wordt. Het loijkt een beetje teveel op het weer hier. Dat maakt mij niets uit maar voor jullie is zon leuker. Groetjes Kees