Newfoundland I

Day 6

Newfoundland I

15/08/2004 1 galleries 0 Maps North America

Exploring Newfoundland: From Gros Morne National Park to Gander, where time seems to have stopped at the right moment.

Eastern Canada Map - Complete Itinerary · Norris Point e Gros Morne

Morning at Norris Point

Ann Bennet (the elderly owner) provides us with breakfast, which, given the abundance, we manage to finish with difficulty. In the night, we can't forget the arrival at the port; nothing adventurous but very evocative: the ship approaching almost imperceptibly to the harbor, while the fog barely allowed the lights on land to be seen. No engine noise or other sound broke the silence that for a few minutes made us imagine an environment from another time, inspiring dozens of films. Terranova is half an hour behind Atlantic Provinces in terms of time zone, so 4 and a half hours compared to Italy.
A wonderful sun accompanies us as we continue to Deer Lake and We detour to Gros Morne. We visit the corresponding park, reaching it by... Norris Point. We get off at the town, buy some postcards and find a viewpoint to have lunch. Photographs and video recordings are plentiful, given the incredible beauty of nature.

Coastal landscape with blue water and rocky cliffs under a cloudy sky.
Eastern Canada Map - Complete Itinerary · Trout River e Tablelands

Trout River

Two colors fill the horizon: the blue of the sky and the fjord and the green that fills the remaining spaces. We then followed the same road back, almost all the way. at the entrance to the park and we head back to the south side up to Woody Point, then to Trout River along a road that follows the Tableland, a mountainous area without vegetation with a reddish hue. With this, we have traveled all the roads in the park, creating an unforgettable experience. Returning to Deer Lake We fill up with petrol at $94.3 per gallon (0.59 € - the most expensive refueling stop ever).
Let's go for dinner at a romantic restaurant, recommended by Cecile, where we enjoy salmon. The dessert was excellent, a cheesecake. Reasonable prices. By 10 PM, with strong winds significantly lowering the temperature, we went to buy drinks at a local pharmacy.

Overnight stay
We are staying at a lovely B&B in Gander, where a kind lady (Cecile) explains that life away from "civilization" is not so bad after all. The idea of going to a metropolis frightens her; here, you practically know everyone by sight. The town has 13,000 inhabitants and is an important aviation center, both military and civilian, as well as for weather observations. She tells us that people essentially live around these activities, and there is no crime, so much so that if we want to lock our room, we are free to do so, but the main door of the house and everything inside it are never locked, even at night. We feel like seeking political asylum in this place that many would find quite unexciting. Life flows very peacefully, and it was only disrupted by the tragic plane crash a few days before Christmas 1985. In that incident, an American military aircraft with 250 soldiers from the Middle East, which had stopped at Gander, failed to take off and crashed in the nearby forest, whose empty space is still clearly visible. There were no survivors.

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