Day 7: Gros Morne National Park

Day 7: St Anthony to Norris Point 

Today we head to Gros Morne National Park, which I am very excited to visit since I keep seeing the commercials on TV about how beautiful this place is supposed to be...and it didn't disappoint.

We left St Anthony at 7am, but I felt pretty tired since my internal clock thinks it's still eastern time. There were lots of "Warning Moose" signs, which I didn't believe.  However, in our 1 day in the northern side of NFLD, we saw a total of 5 moose on the side of the road.  They really are massive creatures, and just seem to be hanging out by the side of the road.

After a 4 hour drive south, we arrived at the border of Gros Morne National Park.  The first stop point is for a boat tour at Western Brook Pond.  It is a landlocked former Fjord (now a pond) inside the park that has towering cliffs on both sides.  It was created when glaciers plowed through the mountain range, and created massive valleys.  The water is so deep here that it is taller than the CN Tower at its deepest. As well, because it is bordered by bogs, and only has a few feeder streams, it takes 15 years to replace all of the water in the lake vs the 2 months most lakes of similar size would take. Since its a landlocked Fjord, they had to chopper in the boat we took in pieces, and assemble it on the lake.

The boat ride was 2 hours return, and was a fantastic experience to see the awesome views.
Definitely recommend this boat tour.

Our boat on Western brook Pond

We finished the boat tour and got to our hotel in Norris Point by 4pm, very happy to have a shorter day with less driving.  The Neddies Harbour Inn has such beautiful views it makes me want to move to NFLD.

And to top it all off...I saw my first UNIMOG.  It was from Montana, and it is the ultimate road trip machine...this is for you Adam Howard.  Portal axles, with 6 diff locks is craziness.  Full kitchen/bed/hotel/hot tub..whatever else you want.

My new dream car !

Tomorrow we are off to climb the tallest mountain in Gros Morne

UNIMOG

Neddies Harbor Inn...what a view

View from our Hotel