23/06: A Beautiful Day in Paradise
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
The sun is shining and the temperatures are rising. It's going to be a beautiful day. Everybody who has been to Gros Morne National Park tells you to be sure to take the boat tour on Western Brook Pond and now I will be one of those people. Western Brook Pond is a land locked fjord. Before you can take the boat ride you have to walk in 3 kilometers that includes some forest and three bogs, it's actually a nice walk. The fjord is 10 miles (16km) in length with a maximum depth of 541 feet (165m). It is surrounded by steep rock walls 2,000 feet (600m) high. On the boat tour I met two people who love to go to work every day ... the captain of the boat and the tour guide. The captain says his first memories are of the pond as he spent summers there as a kid.
First view into Western Brook Pond.
There are a number of waterfalls created by run off from the rain.
"Pissing Mare Falls", not sure how that name was derived. This falls is created by a brook.
The valley at the end of Western Brook Pond.
One of the three bogs we passed through on the hike to and from the pond.
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Sites on the bog.
After the boat tour Ed and I went back to the trailer to get Zaph so we could hike the trail to Bakers Brook Falls. The hike is advertised as 9.2 kilometers return. As "the park" is in the process of updating the trail, signage was missing and we ending up walking two side loops that made the hike 11.2km, a little longer than we planned on.
Little Pond, the goal of one of the side trips. The other side trip took us to a "anti-moose" enclosure. Moose have made a negative impact on the vegetation in this area of the park. In an effort to help regeneration of the natural vegetation fenced areas have been created.
Bakers Brook Falls. The rain of the past few days made this falls spectacular.
Zaph having a well deserved rest by the falls.
First evening in Gros Morne with a clear sky so we headed to the harbour to see the sunset. We had heard that there are great sunsets in Rocky Harbour and it didn't disappoint.
Lobster Cove Lighthouse
First view into Western Brook Pond.
There are a number of waterfalls created by run off from the rain.
"Pissing Mare Falls", not sure how that name was derived. This falls is created by a brook.
The valley at the end of Western Brook Pond.
One of the three bogs we passed through on the hike to and from the pond.
> Sites on the bog.
After the boat tour Ed and I went back to the trailer to get Zaph so we could hike the trail to Bakers Brook Falls. The hike is advertised as 9.2 kilometers return. As "the park" is in the process of updating the trail, signage was missing and we ending up walking two side loops that made the hike 11.2km, a little longer than we planned on.
Little Pond, the goal of one of the side trips. The other side trip took us to a "anti-moose" enclosure. Moose have made a negative impact on the vegetation in this area of the park. In an effort to help regeneration of the natural vegetation fenced areas have been created.
Bakers Brook Falls. The rain of the past few days made this falls spectacular.
Zaph having a well deserved rest by the falls.
First evening in Gros Morne with a clear sky so we headed to the harbour to see the sunset. We had heard that there are great sunsets in Rocky Harbour and it didn't disappoint.
Lobster Cove Lighthouse