Location Taken: Woody Point, Newfoundland, Canada
Time Taken: July 2012
I don’t have anything specific to say about this photo, I just came across it while looking for one to post and decided I had to share it right away.
It’s a magnificent picture of a small coastal town in Newfoundland. And, being a tough-to-reach far northern province, well, small is the right term. Though this was one of the larger towns in the area. Mind you, you can see half of the downtown (really, this is a bunch of shops and a tavern and the like, not homes! Well, maybe that one’s a home.) just in this photo. And really, if the town has more than two hundred buildings, I’d be surprised.
And this is with the town being in a “hot” tourist spot, right in the center of a gorgeous National Park!
There’s actually about eight or so small towns scattered throughout Gros Morne National Park. The towns were there first, you see. And when the park was created, well, they let the towns keep the land they were on.
Which is useful to the tourists, since the towns provide a place to find something to eat. And there’s a ferry across the fjord that cuts the park in two, from this town actually, which reduces travel times nicely. It’s not a car ferry, but it still is great for people who want to go hiking or exploring across the fjord.
And the locals can keep on fishing and selling things to the tourists, all while living surrounded by beautiful mountains.
Doesn’t seem like a bad deal at all.
