Spent a few days exploring different parts of the Avalon Peninsula in eastern Newfoundland. It’s more or less divided into four parts: two northern and two southern. St John’s is on one of the northern parts and this post is about one southern and the other northern one.
A bleak, black beach down in St Vincent’s.
St Vincent’s is only a little place.
But it’s beautiful.
Up the northern part of the peninsula in the town of Brigus.
Brigus church.
Isolated roads.
People round here keep telling me it’s summer. The icebergs keep telling me otherwise.
Got dropped off by The Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland in the town of Winterton so I popped in. There was a boat-building class in progress.
Getting there.
The sleepy little town of Heart’s Content has an amazing claim to fame: the first ever transatlantic cable came here, way back in 1858!
The first cable laid in 1858 failed but the 1866 one lasted, and this is the remains of it!
There aren’t many dirt roads in Newfoundland but I found one.
And ended up having to spend the night by it.
And that’s all you’re getting.
Total distance hitchhiked: 639 km.
Total number of rides: 20.