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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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had no doors so I knew the weren't what they looked like. Were they perhaps there for storage? But nothing seemed to be in any of them. I asked Gayle and what d'you know? Shelters for the children waiting for the school bus! I'd never seen that before on my travels on country roads. What a great idea!

I was looking at the road map of the province. 95% of the settlements on the map are on the coast and some still quite obviously are only accessible by water as there are no roads on the map. The whole of the province is a spider web of lakes and rivers and most of the places in off the shore are on a lake or river with very few others scattered through the interior. Most of the interior settlements are based around the logging and pulp and paper industries or the city of Gander where the town depends on the airport for it's survival. The rest of Newfoundland looks empty thought there are lots of provincial parklands and ecological reserves, the two largest being Gros Morne and Terra Nova national Parks. There are two wilderness reserves marked on the map, Avalon which takes up a good chunk of the southeast of the Avalon peninsula and Bay du Nord just west of the same peninsula along with a handful of smaller coastal reserves.
A look around the map is a delight of place names too, giving loads of speculation as to how the names might have originated. In addition to Dildo, some of the more fanciful ones include: Witless Bay, Tickle Cove, Plate Cove (East and West), Gooseberry Cove, Heart's Delight, Little Heart's Ease, Heart's Desire and Heart's Content. Goblin, Tea Cove, Fogo, Twillingate, Seldom, Little Seldom, Farewell, Virgin Arm (coincidentally near Dildo Run Provincial Park but nowhere near Dildo and South Dildo). Luke's Arm, Comfort Cove, Leading Tickles, Lushes Bight, Sop's Arm. There are lots of duplicate names and four "Little Bays" and three more with Little Bay in the name. Oddly, not ...