Baccalieu Trail

Lori finished work on Friday and is officially on holidays for the next 4 weeks. We kicked off her vacation by going out to dinner with friends on Friday night and then we went exploring yesterday. We've been looking at the other side of Conception Bay for a few months now and decided we should check it out.

There are quite a few dedicated driving routes and trails throughout Newfoundland and the one we took yesterday is called The Baccalieu Trail. It takes you up the western shore of Conception Bay through Bay Roberts, Harbour Grace and Carbonear. You return following the eastern shore of Trinity Bay. There was some rugged and beautiful coastline.

In Harbour Grace, we saw the statue of Amelia Earhart that marked her Trans-Atlantic flight that left from the town in 1932. It was the first flight across the ocean by a female.

 

In Cavendish we saw Shag Rock in the harbour. It looks a little like Stonehenge in the water to me.

Not only are the little towns beautiful but they have great names too. These are the signs of a string of three towns on Trinity Bay.

And then you come to this town.

The sad thing is, it's a beautiful spot with a great restaurant overlooking the water, it just has a very unfortunate name.

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