Aug 18, 2012 - Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve

August 18, 2012 – St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve, Cape St. Mary’s, NFLD We are traveling the Irish Loop again but will soon join the Avalon Peninsula. At Trepassey, an early colony, is where Amelia Earhart took off as a passenger, becoming the first woman to fly the Atlantic. This area is home to the world’s most southerly woodland caribou herd which can be seen from the highway in spring and summer during their annual migration. We did not see any caribou nor have we seen any moose. We are now on the Avalon Peninsula and the Cape Shore...

Sep 3, 2010 - Friday St Brides NL

Today we drove to the southwest tip of the Avalon Peninsula, surrounded on all three sides by the Atlantic Ocean (and hopefully on the other side of Newfoundland from Earl). The road was windy, bumpy and full of pot holes and those marvelous little Canadian signs that indicate that someone should really fix this piece of the road. They’re small little yellow signs (easy to miss) sitting low on the ground next to the road – Barb calls them bumpity-bump signs – an indication to Bob that he’d best slow down or suffer the consequences of flying...

Jun 14, 2010 - Cape St Mary's

Drove up PH 90, over and down PH 92 and PH 100 to Cape St Mary’s Ecological Reserve. Then walked through heavy fog to see nesting gannets and kittiwakes from 60 feet, so high above the ocean you could just barely see waves splashing. Then started the trek back to Port Aux Basques – up PH 100 and PH 101 to the TCH and drove west until beyond Gander and stopped for the night at a large gravel lot at Notre Dame Junction. Ate nice cod dinners at Copper Kettle between Gambo and Gander. Trip Miles – 3997

Sep 13, 2008 - Gannet Mania

Cape St. Mary’s the perfect ending to our Newfoundland adventure - Saturday, September 13 “The closest you will ever come to knowing what it is to be a bird.” That is how their brochure describes a visit to the Cape St. Mary’s Seabird Ecological Reserve - and it could not be said any better. Our friends Chuck and Barbara McLaughlin know Newfoundland well and they told us “Be sure and see Cape St. Mary’s!” All their advice has been good so we put it on our itinerary - planning to do it last as we round the Avalon Peninsula to Argentia where...