Newfoundland

» 17 Aug 2006, 3:29pm in personal - 0 comments

If you ever get a chance to go, you should take it.

We spent a week on the east coast, in St. John's, hiking the East Coast Trail, and touring the Trinity Bight and Bonavista areas. Then we spent a week on the west, in Corner Brook and Gros Morne National Park.

We saw and did too much to write about, but I can summarize by saying that we kayaked a couple of times (once on each coast, although not in Terra Nova National Park as originally planned), hiked a lot on both sides, spent a little time in the cities, met some new friends, got "screetched in", did a lot of camping, and took a lot of photos.

My personal highlights were Cape Bonavista, hiking in Gros Morne, and seeing all of the wildlife.

Next time I want to hike the Long Range Traverse, the backpacking trip that takes you from the famous lookout over Western Brook Pond, across the Long Range Mountains and to the base of Gros Morne Mountain. Besides the rugged terrain, this particular "trail" is different in that there are no actual trail markings; all navigation must be done by GPS, and map and compass.

I've yet to process the photos, since I'm doing it in the new Windows beta of Adobe Lightroom and just learning how to use the software, but I think I've got it figured out and am starting on them this week. Hopefully a full gallery will be up by the end of the weekend.

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