Newfoundland Winter Coastline

Sure it's wet, slippery and often bone-chillingly cold, but it also completely changes how our environment looks, and provides months of photo opportunities. It also helps to highlight what an interesting province we live in, with so much geographic variety. Below are some recent captures.

Morning at Pouch Cove

Shoreline samples

On the Beaten Path - Blackhead

On the way to Cape Spear it is easy to pass by the very tiny village of Blackhead. You see it from the roadway, just a few hundred away. There's plenty to do if you like to hike or photograph. The seaside scenery is savagely wild some days as an Atlantic Ocean vents its pent up energy that's been brewing thousands of miles ago. This day there was hardly a breeze, yet the Atlantic current put on an unwavering show of power as its watery turbines continued its work to smooth the chiseled eastern crust.
Blackhead is on the beaten path of the East Coast Trail as well. You can safely take dramatic photos from the trail, and especially if you have a zoom lens. Also from a safe distance you will likely be able to hear thunderous echos of eternal ocean smashing a tough armour of cliff.
Unstoppable power!

Rock Bottom

It's been an uncharacteristically decent spring in Eastern Newfoundland this year. Normally fog would make it difficult to see the edge of this hill, let alone the beach below. It's not everyday there's something to see in the distance - on this day, it was a shore thing.

Isn't it a Wonder

Our province is spectacular all along its 28,000 kilometres of coastline. That includes the coast of Labrador, major and minor islands. Especially on windy clear days, it stands out as one of natures wonders. If NL's coastline was not among the over half a million entries to the Seven Wonders of Canada contest, it is still one of the most beautiful natural features of the country.

For visitors who are not familiar with Newfoundland and Labrador, the picture above represents much of the provinces coastline, however, sandy beaches, cliffs, and gentle grassy slopes also adorn the island of Newfoundland and the Labrador coast. (that shot is Middle Cove, just outside St. John's and near the town of Torbay)

Here are some other places not often seen, but worth the look, and visit. More here.