Newfoundland 3

Here`s a few photos from Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Cabot Tower – Signal Hill was used to send signals (by flag) to approaching ships in the day of sail. This practice always ensured that an individual shipping line had its stevedores at the ready when the ship made port. This is also the location where Marconi made the first trans-Atlantic wireless communication. Anyone out there relying on wireless communications. Better check your Cell phone.


Cape Spear off in the distance is the most eastward point of land in North America. Sorry Maine.


This province is famous for the Newfoundland dog and the Labrador retriever.


Many battles between the French and English took place for this vital ice free harbour and fishing rights. This is the Big Mac.


And this one would be the Whopper.


Not much grows here without soil and the salt spray in the air. The glaciers stripped the land of its soil and there is evidence of ice cut valleys everywhere. Mosses and lichen are about all that can survive here.


There are a few crevices that appear to be bottomless. You would form a nasty wedge if you ever slipped down this one.


Darryl.