Bill And Maria Go To Newfoundland

August 3rd Cow Head and Western Brook Pond, Gros Morne National Park Twenty years ago the tour boat that motors around one of the great glacial masterpieces, Western Brook Pond, dropped me, Dave  and Dunc off at the end of the "pond" where we started our hike.  Western Brook Pond was an old, majestic fjord but over time the ocean entrance was sealed off so now they call this magnificent body of water a pond.  Today Maria and I got on what looked like one of the same tour boats I rode twenty years ago.  The pictures tell it all. Before heading over to the tour boat, we walked around Cow Head, where we've stayed two nights.  Another fine Newfoundland walk out to a rocky spit.  But as shown below, there was an unusual lighthouse.   There is a 1.5 mile walk from the tour boat parking lot to the boat and when we showed up at noon to start the walk, people who were returning told us the boat rides had been cancelled due to fog.  There was indeed some fog but not en

  August 1 st Gros Morne National Park Twenty years ago I, along with my friends Dunc Ballantyne from Beverly and Dave Balsinger from Wisconsin, hiked the Long Range Mountains in Gros Morne National Park.  Although that hike didn’t  take me anyplace else in Newfoundland, , Gros Morne was one of the most unusual landscapes I’d ever seen and I promised myself that I’d return someday.  Since then I have been nagging Maria to come back here and last winter we decided this summer was the time.  We’re here for two days at Woody Point south of the main park but an area with powerful mountains and fjord like inlets and ponds.   Lots of interesting hikes in this area -  all day hikes. Our B&B here at Woody Point is the  Bonne Bay Inn.  We were having wine last night at the Inn and the music playing in the bar consisted solely of two Eagle tunes, "Lying Eyes" and "Peaceful and Easy Feeling" over and over.   I like the Eagles, but........   Kind of funn