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A winter break in St. John's, in the province of Newfoundland in March 2001

Winter Break in St. John's

Tvor
2005-08-29 18:57:25

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the northeast and northwest of a peninsular point of land north of the city stopping first at Middle Cove in Logy Bay. The cove was all iced in though the water was moving under the pack ice. The cove is surrounded by cliffs out of which spout frozen waterfalls and the "sand" is black crushed granite and pebbles, the beach littered with huge rock formations and immense "boulders" of dirty ice. I stepped back off that beach realizing three rolls of film for a 4 and a half day trip might not be enough! (actually it was, but I bought more while I was there just in case)

From there we drove a bit further through Torbay and down a side road to Bauline, a tiny fishing village with narrow hilly roads twisting past a little church down to a small pier where most of the dories were hauled up out of the water and beached for the winter. It would have been really pretty under a sunny sky but it still had a certain raw ruggedness with a cold wind blowing in my face as I took a photo of a rush of water emerging from an icy bank into the harbour.

Further along the road, after a detour into the nearby city limits for a bagel and tea break at Tim Horton's, we headed back towards the shoreline for Conception Bay South. We stopped in St. Philip where there is a ferry to the small Bell Island and drove through Paradise to Chamberlain's Head where Chamberlain's Pond was on the map. It looked interesting on the map, like a bay that had been closed off from the sea by a strip of land so we followed a few rough side roads and down an unpaved one, not much wider than the car. That bay, or "pond" was frozen and the strip of land looked as if a celestial dump truck had laid a strip of gravel along to make an embankment across the mouth of the bay. It must have been the tides and waves breaking up the rocks over a natural breakwater underneath that formed it.

Along we drove through the villages, enjoying the stark winter beauty. ...