I linked up with the RV caravan and we headed into the National Park. We stayed at the Lomond campground for three nights, doing day trips with the smaller vehicles.
We started with a hike in the Tablelands area, where some of the oldest rocks from the earth’s mantle are exposed. It hosts a unique barren landscape, but looking at the treeless rocky terrain all I could think about was skiing.
On our second day we drove up the coast to the Western Brook Pond and got a boat tour of the immense glacial fjord. Despite one member of our group thinking we were going on a whale watch, we had a pretty good time. The boat crew did a great job explaining and entertaining during the three hour tour.
After the boat tour, we stopped in Rocky Harbour for ice cream and a visit to the Bonne Bay Aquarium. The water is very deep in the narrow fjord, and isolated from the Gulf of St Lawrence since the last ice age by a shallow sill, so they have access to an arctic marine landscape right off their shore.
As a living research center, all their guests are released at the end of the season. On the guide’s recommendation, I downloaded the audiobook of Remarkably Bright Creatures and spent much of the rest of the trip thinking about what it would be like to be caught in a tank and on display for children.
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