6 September 2011

New Found Land ... memories

  • carpet of flower blossoms
  • highway produce growing allotments
  • windy, rainy, stormy, cloudy
  • holiday season uncluttered, world's quietest
  • moose munched spruce trees
  • hills, valleys, ponds, shoreline … endless views
  • chatty chatty folk, you'll never get away quietly
  • mosquitos - they're out to get 'ya - it's personal
  • triangular province shape
  • resembling Scottish highlands and Dartmoor - peat, bog, flat acres
  • thick with trees and small mountains
  • carbohydrate devouring … donut shaped physics
  • fishing, fisherfolk, fish lore, centuries old
  • ancient discoveries, the Vikings
  • space plenty of it, no one or creatures in sight
  • I spy something beginning with 'T' (tree) 'S' (sky) 'H' (highway)
  • Iceberg Ice, 15,000 years old pure, clean delicious!
  • Gros Morne Tablelands, earth's mantle material, collided with earth plates, awesome!
  • stars appearing closer to the earth, Big Dipper enormous!
  • look as far as the eyes can see, Labrador on the horizon
  • deep white foggy ferry crossings
  • wild fruits home made jams, delicious, expensive
  • above land electricity power lines, telephone lines follow us everywhere = civilisation??
  • Provincial 'animal' is the mosquito (not really) but they are abundant
  • pronounced NewfoundLAND
  • dialect mix of Scots and Irish, everyone says 'ouut', am I in Eire?
  • cruising 75-80 kph
  • food mostly not additive free, Canadian Club whiskey is additive free
  • particle board built houses
  • lobster pots piled high by roadside
  • stacked up logs by roadside, middle of nowhere, seasoning up for the winter
    Fishing 'village'


    Tablelands, from the earth's mantle, ancient & awsome
    Mark paddling icebergs to shore