Midsummers in Newfoundland

Shallow Bay Beach, 3 miles of sandy beach with no one on it!!!! Heaven for us and the kids

We returned to Shallow Bay Provincial Park for 2 days after driving back south from Quirpon and L’Anse aux Meadows. Temperatures are 10 degrees warmer and we are back on our favorite beach. Up north the landscape is very much windswept marshland with small black spruce trees that are pretty much the only tree that survives the coastal regions and peat bogs. We are seeing lots of icebergs around that are calving from Greenland glaciers and getting swept down here by the currants. Hence the waters around are not very warm coming down from Greenland with Labrador currant. Wind chill factor is a real thing!!!

Lobster Point Lighthouse. Lighthouse keepers families lived here over 100 years.

We moved a little more south on the west coast but we are still in Gros Morne National Park. These pics are from Berry Hill Provincial Park where we got some epic hiking done with Rhona!!! Relatively flat landscape with more ponds and bogs that one can count, water running all over the place. Miles and miles of trails amazingly build with lot of bridges and plank ways across all the water on the ground.

It was time to leave the west coast and Gros Morne National Park behind and head east. Our next destination was RV park close by Triton village ..

Triton and Robert’s Arm villages where you see the blue spot. Green spot is L’Anse aux Meadows

The landscape turned into hills and lush forests.. still tons of lakes and ponds, rivers, streams but now we actually are seeing forest with tons of trees with leafs. Hiking turned into climbing massive staircases and more manageable/dryer forest trail running. Rhona and me are…. again in hike/run heaven!!! Ian is riding some serious hills.. as other way you do not go anywhere… he he!!

Triton was very charming little village with (we think) quite a few summer houses all over the place decorating the coast line. They also had done a great job on the little buss stops to keep the kids cheerful while waiting for school buss. And yes.. the small door way is there for a reason!! They get quite a lot of snow, wind and rain.

Ian kayaking/fishing and got his first fish of the trip… yes… not that easy… it’s been cold as you probably have heard.. and no insects for salmon to eat so.. it’s been a quiet fishing season what ever ones fishing skills are !!