Twillingate, Fogo Is and Harbour Breton
An other perfect camp spot for us… last days of allowed campfires this season. Forest fires have started in Labrador and here, if one starts it will be nearly impossible to stop cause of so few roads and dense forestation.
Kids love our remote spots!
It was time to leave the west coast behind and head towards east and more middle of the island. We had camp spot in Dildo Run Provincial Park (where Jimmy Kimmel is honorary mayor!) Twillingate is popular tourist spot for whale watching and iceberg spotting earlier in the year but still had plenty tourist left over end of June. We hiked with Rhona one most challenging hike until now and Ian had his own challenges tackling the hills with his bike.
Long Point Lighthouse trail, Twillingate
We decided to take a day tour to Fogo Is. The ferry was only 45 min across from close by harbour which was perfect for day trip with the kids. Starting to read about Fogo Island….. we remembered seeing a report of it in 60 min program few years back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hS9bx7wH7o
… after seeing the program back then we both thought… “how amazing would it be to go and see that in person!!” Not much else to add than..” go and travel my friends, you never know what you find!”
Back in Twillingate we did get few rainy days…
We did get some wind too, ha ha(temp. close to 38F), weather changes 4 times a day here
After Twillingate we headed south to Harbour Breton. It is located in the end of 145 mile road that cuts through middle of Newfoundland island north to south. There are no stops, no fuel, no houses… just pure wilderness until… you start seeing REAL fjords and small town of Harbour Breton just before you hit the sea. There are little ferry boats sailing east and west on the south coast across the fjords but most of them do not take cars and it was going to be too much for Kaya… it is the only way to really see the south coast well. There are no roads.
Next time!!
Deadman’s Cove RV “patch”! … and the place was not named after the 2 big graveyards at the entrance of the “patch”!!!! he he
Apparently it got its name from local shipwrecks and tragic discovery of deceased sailors washed ashore…
You decided what’s better…. anyways… we did sleep ok and did not see any ghost of the shipwreck crews restless spirits.
There were quite a few spots to go camping off the beach but it was nice to have electricity provided at the RV park, the nights were still rather chilly and weather changes quick.
Swimming in a quiet pond for the kids and lots of outings. We found a “fairy village” with Rhona on our trail run… (the last pic!)
Next we are heading back to the north coast and actually ending up quite close from where we left from ..
Circled here is Fogo Is. and blue dot is where we are now…we have been in Newfoundland for a month and hardly seen a quarter of it.. most of the population lives east on Avalon peninsula which is on the lower right corner on the picture. Also majority of the tourists visit St. John’s (that is on Avalon Peninsula) so we are heading little by little towards civilization and summer tourists!
