Location Taken: Terra Nova National Park, Newfoundland
Time Taken: July 2012
There’s a lovely national park on the eastern side of Newfoundland, full of magnificant forests and marvelous bays. It’s called Terra Nova, which means “new world”, and it is full of pristine wilderness that may just convince you that you’re on a different, much less populated, planet. Both the land and the seas teem with wildlife, including many that are endangered, and the bays are full of magnificant cliffs and clear blue waters.
Or at least that’s what I’ve heard. I only drove through the place.
Oh, and we stopped for about fifteen minutes at the visitor center as well.
That’s about it.
We had been planning on camping at this park, which would have given me a chance to explore it some and take more than a handful of photos. But alas, car trouble meant we spent that night in a hotel, hoping that the mechanics would be about to get it up and running before we had to catch the ferry to the mainland. And they did an excellent job, taking only two days to complete the repairs beautifully!
Alas, that meant two days of our itinerary had to be cut, so Terra Nova was dropped, as was the extra day in St. John’s that I’d asked for. I’d wanted to check out the Avalon Peninsula a lot more, but we only spent one night there, and had to head off for the ferry in the morning.
Ah well, perhaps next time I head to Newfoundland, I shall get more time for the eastern portion. I really liked the rocks there. And what little I saw of Terra Nova (mainly this bay right by the visitor’s center, plus a whole lot of forest to drive through) was beautiful, even if most of it went by at 110 kilometers per hour (or whatever the speed limit on the highway was).
