Last Day in Gros Morne

We came back to the same KOA campground we were in last week, but because they were having a caravan of campers come in the only space they could give us for two nights was this “deluxe” site. It also has a cement patio and a patio table and four chairs. However, if you look closely you can see that we had to put 3 risers under each wheel on the driver’s side to get the trailer level. I would much rather have a level site than the other extras. Oh well, it’s still a nice campground.

Matey and I took a walk this morning. You need to turn your sound up for this one, because although you can hardly see the birds on the pond I’m pretty sure they were loons and they were calling.

And then I took this video, it’s hard to see, but it is fog blowing in the wind. That is something we’ve been seeing here, but we had associated fog with still days, so were surprised.

The day cleared and we took off for one last day to see the sights. We started with a short walk to see Southeastern Brook Falls.

The trail was nice…

with steps where you needed them.

And the brook…

took a pretty spectacular tumble.

Then we decided to see how far up the approach trail to Gros Morne we could get.

It was another well made trail, with rocks where little brooks crossed.

We were following a larger brook.

But as we went along it became apparent…

that we were getting closer to the wrong mountain.

After about a mile and a half we came to a bridge across the stream. We could see that the trail bent back towards Gros Morne at that point, but we decided we should hike back out.

Heading back we saw some nice views that had been at our backs.

I noticed this one piece of cloud left on a mountain.

After lunch we drove to Norris Point; it’s not far from the campground, where yet another Newfoundland road just ends. It sits on Bonne Bay and is a pretty little town.

It had one of the few marinas we’ve seen. I’m not sure what the large boat was doing, but it may well be just sitting there waiting for the right season for whatever fish they are after.

Tomorrow we leave the west coast of Newfoundland. I’ll let you know what we find as we go east.