Post by 150FromFundy on Oct 7, 2011 17:42:26 GMT -5
We are up on the tip of the Great Northern Peninsula (51°18'7.45"N, 55°38'9.72"W) in an area known as the Iceberg Capital of the World. The trail boasts of whales and icebergs, but comes with instructions on how to deal with moose and coyotes. Huh! They neglect to tell you about the polar bear, but they only cross over from Labrador when the channel is frozen.
Photo 1 – Moose and Coyotes!
This is the trail up to the cliffs. It’s an incredibly barren place. The landscape has been highly glaciated and there is no soil.
Photo 2 – Pumley Cove Trail
This is looking back at the fishing village of Goose Cove. Originally, Goose Cove was an ‘outport’ accessible only by boat with no roads. Many outports were interconnected by roads only in the last 20 to 30 years.
Photo 3 – Goose Cove
Photo 4 – Goose Cove
This area gets about 10 feet of snow in a typical winter and you never have to look too far to find snow even late in July.
Photo 5 – Snow in July
There are a number of wildflowers along the way. The sphagnum moss is the primary food for caribou. If you have ever had a model trail set or built an architectural model, this is the same stuff the hobby shops sell for making shrubs and trees.
Photo 6 – Mushrooms
Photo 7 – Irish Moss
Photo 8 – Sphagnum Moss
And there’s the ice bergs. These icebergs calve off the glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland, flow along the Labrador coast and eventually drift past the northern tip of Newfoundland. They are much larger than they appear. Like an ice cube, you see the top 1/10th while the remaining 9/10th are under water. Most of these icebergs have broken of an ice sheet so they tend to be ‘flatties’.
Photo 9 – Iceberg
Photo 10 – Iceberg
Photo 11 – Iceberg
Photo 12 – Iceberg
Photo 13 – Iceberg
Photo 14 – Iceberg
Photo 1 – Moose and Coyotes!
This is the trail up to the cliffs. It’s an incredibly barren place. The landscape has been highly glaciated and there is no soil.
Photo 2 – Pumley Cove Trail
This is looking back at the fishing village of Goose Cove. Originally, Goose Cove was an ‘outport’ accessible only by boat with no roads. Many outports were interconnected by roads only in the last 20 to 30 years.
Photo 3 – Goose Cove
Photo 4 – Goose Cove
This area gets about 10 feet of snow in a typical winter and you never have to look too far to find snow even late in July.
Photo 5 – Snow in July
There are a number of wildflowers along the way. The sphagnum moss is the primary food for caribou. If you have ever had a model trail set or built an architectural model, this is the same stuff the hobby shops sell for making shrubs and trees.
Photo 6 – Mushrooms
Photo 7 – Irish Moss
Photo 8 – Sphagnum Moss
And there’s the ice bergs. These icebergs calve off the glaciers and ice sheets in Greenland, flow along the Labrador coast and eventually drift past the northern tip of Newfoundland. They are much larger than they appear. Like an ice cube, you see the top 1/10th while the remaining 9/10th are under water. Most of these icebergs have broken of an ice sheet so they tend to be ‘flatties’.
Photo 9 – Iceberg
Photo 10 – Iceberg
Photo 11 – Iceberg
Photo 12 – Iceberg
Photo 13 – Iceberg
Photo 14 – Iceberg
