Icebergs

Apparently this is a record year for icebergs around Newfoundland. We've seen lots of small ones around the Avalon Peninsula but haven't had much luck finding the bigger ones. We even went on a boat tour last weekend. It was a lot of fun (and a little cold) but we only found a small one. We were able to get very close to it though and the crew even fished out smaller chunks that we could take home with us. The ice stayed frozen for a couple of hours in Lori's purse until we got home. It's in the freezer now.

You can see two seams of blue ice where most of the air has been squeezed out of the ice. These icebergs are from Greenland and they take three years to reach Newfoundland. Even though it was small, it looked good against the background of Signal Hill and Fort Amherst.

On Sunday we went for a drive along the coast and spotted a large berg in the distance. It was hard to tell where it was exactly, but we went looking for it. The first place we tried was Torbay. The large iceberg wasn't there, but there was a small one very close to the beach.

We pressed on looking for the large berg. Our next stop was in Flatrock, but no luck. After a couple of wrong turns, we eventually found it near Pouch Cove. I only had my phone with me so I couldn't get a great shot of it, but it was a very large iceberg and it was very cool. Because it was so far out, it's hard to show how large it is in relation to something else.

We're going to miss the prime iceberg season over the next two weeks. I'm heading west to Calgary on Friday and Lori is heading east to Paris on Saturday. We'll both be back in St. John's by mid-June, just in time for the start of whale season. Looking forward to it.

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