We arrived in Rocky Harbor yesterday, set up camp and went to the Ocean View Hotel in Rocky Harbour, Newfoundland for dinner and to hear the band Anchors Aweigh play. Some of these band members also worked on the boat tour we took today. They work day and night, 7 days a week during their short summer of a couple of months, then there is nothing for the rest of the year.
Anchors Aweigh. They sing a lot of Newfoundland and Labrador songs which are very much influenced by the Irish and Scotch.
Today was a boat ride around Bonne Bay. This area is in the Gros Morne National Park. Gros Morne has World Heritage Site status by UNESCO because “The park provides a rare example of the process of continental drift, where deep ocean crust and the rocks of the earth’s mantle lie exposed.”
This rock was once an ocean floor and is now pushed up almost vertically and exposes all the sedimentary layers.Here’s a closer look at some of those layers.This was a weird rock formation. The white you see is embedded in the rock. The yellow is algae at tide line.There were eagles nesting in the area, but they got lost in the photo.The bay was rimmed with little fishing villages. This one seems bigger than most.And if you back up to view the villages, you see they rim the water while the mountains are steep behind them.I think they thought we’d get bored of the scenery, so they sang a few songs on the way back.
I haven’t posted an unusual sign for awhile. This one catches the interest of everyone on the tour. As in, “Boy they really have big moose here. Look how much bigger the moose is compared to the car.” I guess it would be accurate as they say the moose can be 8 feet at it’s withers.
When we stopped and really looked at the sign, we see that the left is a moose horn, and the right a caribou horn. A carimoose? Anyway, the moose is still standing, but the car has a broken windshield, flat tire and dented hood. Watch out for those moose and caribou.
