Day 11: Deer Lake to Twillingate

We left Deer Lake in more dismal weather, and continued east on the Trans Canada highway.

Small side note here – we’ve now traveled something like 99% of the Trans-Canada, we’ve only missed the sections on Vancouver Island, between Montreal and Ottawa, and from here down to St. John. Not a bad accomplishment.

The drive didn’t really get all that interesting until we got closer to the east coast of Newfoundland. We haven’t been commenting on it very much, but there are literally lakes, streams and rivers every where you look, and they are nearly all beautiful.

Today we had the added bonus of all sorts of inlets, coves and islands along the coast. All the water is intensely clear, and you can often see the bottom of the river or lakebed. I guess it’s at least partly because the water is so cold.

To get to Twillingate, you have to cross from island to island over causeways. There’s South Twillingate and North Twillingate Islands, and they are the end of the land at this part of the island. There’s currently a pretty large iceberg just hanging out in the bay, right outside our inn.

It’s difficult to get a sense of scale, but this thing is big. That point is probably 70 to 80 feet high. The little dot on the right side of the picture is a person in a kayak.

We drove around a bit before dinner, and got some beautiful photographs of the coast:

After dinner we watched the sun set over the island – a lovely way to end the day.