Hiking The Rock – Part 2

I think I can speak for both Deb and I when I say our favourite day of hiking in Newfoundland wasn’t really a planned hike at all. In fact, we headed out without water or hiking poles and decided only at the last minute to put on our boots … and I’m glad we did.

We had planned a day trip along the west coast of Conception Bay to visit a friend of Deb’s at Harbour Grace. It was a lovely mild day and along the way, we decided to stop at Bay Roberts to check out the Shoreline Trail.

This section of trail is not part of the TransCanada but in my opinion it should be.

Newfoundland is big! The red balloon is Bay Roberts and St John’s is where we were based. We took the scenic route around the Bay which took us about 90 minutes.

In the short hour we spent walking along this trail, we saw enough of it that we wished we had much more time to explore.

I’ll let the photos do the talking.

Catching an iceberg off shore clearly gave this trek a high score. The only thing missing was a whale sighting.

It didn’t take long into this hike before I knew I was in my happy place.

Maybe leaving the hiking poles behind wasn’t such a great idea. Going up wasn’t bad, but coming back down was a bit more challenging.

Newfoundland is called The Rock for a reason.

All trails should be so accommodating!!

No, we weren’t in the land of the Little People. This is an old cold cellar used by early homesteaders.
Farming this terrain wouldn’t have been an easy life.

Right about now I was regretting not having water with me. As experienced hikers we should have known better.

I had 2 cameras with me on this hike and I just noticed that one camera had spots on the lens. Damn!

Just revisiting these photos makes me wish we were back there again. This is a breathtakingly beautiful province and I highly recommend it!