It's cold here and people are burning...

[FyreBug]

I'm on holidays in Northern Newfoundland in Gros Morne National Park - World Heritage site. Look it up on google. The vistas are stunning, the food & company is great. But man it's cold. It gets down to the 40's at night and you can see your breath some days. Just about everyone burns wood here since this is an Island and the alternative is oil, electric & propane. They had a couple of frost warning in July! Mind you this is unusual even for them.

Took a boat tour in a fjord today in driving rain but when the rain cleared up what a sight! I'll upload pics if I can. In the meantime here is some eye candy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHmsHU1zuoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2oENraZknY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3OORLTAzM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHNFsN7rqSY&NR=1

For you hunters, plenty of Caribou and the highest density of Moose on the planet. About 5 per square miles. Just had my first moose burger!

On a side note, not far from here huge iceberg the size of is now traveling on the East side of the island. It's the size of Manhattan and there are tours to go see it. Unfortunately, I wont have time to go. But the people I talked to who went said there are seals & waterfalls & huge chunks of ice breaking. Quite a sight...

 

[laynes69]

Looks beautiful, like something from a fairy tale. We finally hit the 70's and it's cooling off now. Still not getting the itch to burn yet. When you say on holidays does that mean vacation? First time I've heard that phrase. Looks like quite a place. The only placed I've been out of the US was Canada and what a mixed experience that was. Getting searched at the border wasn't fun. The falls was beautiful though.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

FyreBug, that looks like a wonderful place and thanks for posting those links. Hope you have a wonderful time while there. And yes, I'd love to hunt some caribou and moose up there.

 

[Fsappo]

Mail me a moosebuger!

One of the joys of being a rep. You do get to see some sights. I'll check the youtube stuff when I get home.

 

[Swedishchef]

Ahhh yes. What a nice place NFLD is. One of the nicest in the world.

Moose were introduce to Newfoundland in 1878 and 1904. Since then, the population has exploded. From my understanding, they have had Moose culls in the past to control the population as there are no natural predators on the island other than humans.

Not to Hijack FYrebug's post, but here's a link to that explains the iceberg he described and it includes an amazing picture from space while the iceberg was off of the coast of Labrador.

http://planetsave.com/2011/07/27/iceberg-floating-off-newfoundland-coast-photo-of-the-day/

Now fyrebug, get your ass on that boat, go see the iceberg and take lots of pics!
Enjoy the rest of your trip!

Andrew

 

[raybonz]

I'm on holidays in Northern Newfoundland in Gros Morne National Park - World Heritage site. Look it up on google. The vistas are stunning, the food & company is great. But man it's cold. It gets down to the 40's at night and you can see your breath some days. Just about everyone burns wood here since this is an Island and the alternative is oil, electric & propane. They had a couple of frost warning in July! Mind you this is unusual even for them.

Took a boat tour in a fjord today in driving rain but when the rain cleared up what a sight! I'll upload pics if I can. In the meantime here is some eye candy...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHmsHU1zuoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2oENraZknY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE3OORLTAzM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHNFsN7rqSY&NR=1

For you hunters, plenty of Caribou and the highest density of Moose on the planet. About 5 per square miles. Just had my first moose burger!

On a side note, not far from here huge iceberg the size of is now traveling on the East side of the island. It's the size of Manhattan and there are tours to go see it. Unfortunately, I wont have time to go. But the people I talked to who went said there are seals & waterfalls & huge chunks of ice breaking. Quite a sight...

Very nice videos of a beautiful place! I'm sure you'll have plenty of pics when you return! Thanx for posting!

Ray