Gros Morne day two

Tuesday on the way to Western Brook Pond, we saw a dirt road that ran down close to the sea — so we took it.  Just about got into trouble as the road came to an uncrossable ditch.  So we had to back out some of the way and make a close road turn to go back the way we came but we did have a beautiful drive and view for a while.

Our destination was Western Brook Pond, three kilometer hike across bog, marsh and scrubby forest, this side of those mountains.

At the Pond we had a picnic lunch and waited on our boat tour to take us into the freshwater fjords.

This used to be a salt water fjord, but the bog and upland lift has turned it into a freshwater fjord umpteen hundred thousand years ago after the last ice age and glaciers quit carving out fjords.

The water is so cold, so the guide said, and so pure that it barely conducts electricity and has little life of any type and little human contact — so ta -da, clean lake.

We were on a London double decker type tour boat with a London bus load of tourists.  We had good seats too, back outside left.

There were some nice water falls, the scenery was awesome — the highest peak was little over 700 meters.

the tour boat was a two hour ride and we enjoyed it.—

at times it got sorta close to the cliffs — I forget how deep the guide said but it is deep.  I was impressed. Also impressed with how wild and beautiful the country was. At the back end of the lake there is a drop off point for back wood hikers (require professional guides as there are no trails) who take on four or five day hikes to Gros Morne Mountain - the signature peak in the park.

Now on to St Anthony the north end of Viking Trail and site of the Vikings settlement.