{"id":4243,"date":"2025-08-06T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2025-12-18T13:11:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T21:11:26","slug":"gros-morne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.levinger.net\/josh\/2025\/08\/06\/gros-morne","title":{"rendered":"Gros Morne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Tablelands<\/a>\n<\/div>
Tablelands Boardwalk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Western Brook Pond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After the boat tour, we stopped in Rocky Harbour for ice cream and a visit to the Bonne Bay Aquarium<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\"Night<\/a>\n<\/div>
Bonne Bay at Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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