Too Many Pictures

The problem is Newfoundland has 6,000 miles of coastline, and every mile is beautiful. Yesterday we decided to try another ferry, this one to little Long Island and the Beothuk hiking trail.

This ferry took vehicles, but only 16. After our last experience we didn’t want to be left out, so we arrived at about 9:10 AM for the ten o’clock ferry. Here we are, first in line.

There were a bunch of jellyfish to amuse us.

About 20 minutes later the ferry…

started its 5 minute trip to our side. In case you weren’t sure what you wanted to do on Long Island this sign listed the attractions.

We were loaded right up front by the bow. It’s the first time we’ve stayed in the truck in an enclosed ferry during a crossing. It was noisy.

You can see the press of vehicles in our rear view mirror, all three of us.

We left the ferry…

and soon came to the hiking trail…

it was less than six miles across the island.

The locals made you feel welcome..

and the trail itself was inviting.

And then there were the views.

I took these at the first lookout..

where a couple who grew up in this little place were flying a drone trying to track whales. They lost the whales and we never saw them. They told us her dad had cleared the trail to this lookout, Amos’s Lookout. He was Amos.

As they were trying to get their drone back, before it ran out of power or the wind got it, we walked on. Up the hill we came to this bog.

You could look across the bog to the cliff and the ocean and islands beyond. Those are pitcher plants in the foreground.

I think they’re beautiful even without their flowers.

We went past this pond with a beaver lodge and bypassed the gazebo on the knob…

to climb up a steep slope…

to an outlook with these chairs. The rocks are to keep them in place on windy days. Newfoundland gets lots of wind.

We looked for whales and just enjoyed the views.

Very rugged and very lovely.

We came back from the chairs and climbed these steps to the gazebo on the knob hill.

The steps and walkways were all cabled down…

or weighted with rocks against the wind.

I took picture after picture of the gorgeous landscape in every direction. Finally I just took this video as I moved around to catch the 360 degree beauty.

We walked back the trail and left the little town of Beaumont…

and drove back across Long Island to the ferry.

We were first in line again, but this time the ferry had more customers. I took this video of a straight truck being loaded. He was the last one to come on. These ferry workers get the vehicles in without any wasted space. They even folded in the mirrors on the vehicles on either side of the truck.

We then drove across Pilley’s Island to Triton Island and finally across to tiny Cobbler Island, all of seventeen miles. Along the way we saw these bouys, set out for some kind of aquaculture,

and this good sized shipyard.

Cobbler Island had this bridge to a bit of island with a gazebo on it.

We walked up the nearby steps…

to this very nice gazebo. It looked down on the bridge and little island…

and gave a great view out to sea…

and along their piece of beautiful coastline.

As you can see, everywhere we went it was picturesque, pretty or downright stunning. It was hard to find the pictures to tell the story without overwhelming you.