My time in Nfld has been great. I'm leaving tonight on the ferry to go back to Nova Scotia, and then the long haul to the west. The people here have been so nice, well just last night we pulled into a trailor park (completly empty), to get a spot for the night with a hot shower. I ended up sitting the living room with this newfy drinking his beer and listening to all his storys. They've got a real problem with cayotes, apparently they came across on the ice and have populated the island making the people uneasy. They're killing hair and carabo, which is a good sorce of winter meet for these folks. So they kill the cayotes whenever they can for a bounty of $25. It's pretty amazing how high these people keep there spirits even after what the factories and government have done to the fishing industry. Guess it's oil and tourism now.
Durring my time here I've seen a lot of wild life. More moose then I can count, but you see a lot of them on the side of the road this time of year. Seen whales on numerous ocations which is always really cool. I've also managed to see puffins, seals, foxes, eagles, and sheep. Yes sheep.
By far the highlight of nfld for me has been the Western Brook Pond. It's another spot in Gross Moorne. You can get boat tours in this pond and it takes you through a big fjord. Or you can hike in to the base of the fjord and camp in a little bay, -or a byte as the newfy's call it-. It's a realtivly easy 8km hike in, with only one river crossing, but they have a cable up for it. Once at the camp we met and had a fire with a young german couple, and 2 auzzies hitchhiking around nf. It was an interesting night of story telling. They had told us that they hiked up to the top of the fjord, and it was the most buitiful sight they'd ever seen. Intrieged the next mourning we set off leaving our camp set up on the beech, to get to the top of the fjord. It took roughly 3 hours i figure of steep terrian, following dry creek beds, and moose trails. For such a big animal they can go through some thick shit. Once to the top though, the view was breath taking, it was like nothing i've ever seen. Words can't describe this place, so hopfully the pictures will do some justice to what im saying. The cliffs im standing on in them are 2400ft high. Intence.
Anyways im off too dawson city, and the demster highway, where i'll see the buefort sea, so I guess im going to the north coast before the west coast.
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