We had been told by a number of people that to really see NFLD you have to get off the main road. NFLD has only one main road Trans-Canada Highway (TCH) that runs like a sideways 'Ç' from the south west to the south east coast, then there is another main road that goes north fromthe TCH. Almost all the towns and villages are off of the TCH along the coast, very few people live inland in NFLD because the terrain is extremely rugged in mostly inaccessible except by hikers.
Stephenville is at the start of a peninsula that sticks out into the Gulf of St Lawrence about 60 kms (40mi).
We seem to be running out of words to describe what we see but again the area is beautiful, almost breathtaking. We followed the coast out to the end of the peninsula, Here there are many more riveres and streams than NS and NB. We found a spot named Hidden Falls, named because you can only see them if you are right at the coast and look back. the rive runs down from the mountains and can go completely dry if there is a lack of rain. The rock formation in the area is incredible.
We were directed to a park called Boutte de Cap (Cape Boot) where there is a rock formation that is shaped like a giant boot, we had lunch on the cape overlooking the gulf. We were told that this was a great place to see whales but apparently the whales did not want to see us so they stayed away, oh well maybe somewhere else.
We did visit and pay our respects at a site where a US commercial plane chashed in 1944 carrying US military personnel to Stephenville where the US air force had a base during WW2. The runways and some of the hangers are still in use today and it is the longest runway in NFLD. We continue around the peninsula to the TCH and to Cornerbrook for the night.
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