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SPRING 2017 ISSUE 01 / VOL. 02
Main: With 1,890 miles on the clock I spent half the day in this rocker at the wonderful Fishers’ Loft inn at Port Rexton. Top right: Canadian ferry service is excellent. After a good sleep in a private cabin, the seven-hour ferry ride from Nova Scotia arrives at Port aux Basques, Newfoundland. Bottom right: Icebergs arrive from Greenland from March to July. They are composed of snow that fell 15,000 years ago, and yes, 90 percent of an iceberg is below water.
with one of the Twillingate operators. The trips last two hours and get you up close to these amazing things. Most icebergs come from Greenland, are about 15,000 years old and the size of a 15-story building! It was one of these icebergs that sank the Titanic not too far from here a hundred years ago.
A conversation on the boat leads to my next day plan, a 375-mile ride to the Bonavista Peninsula on the east coast. I followed a small coast road for half the day that snakes through little fishing villages and took me to Port Rexton. This place just gets more spectacular each day and there hasn’ t been any rain. Bonavista is all ocean vistas and massive headlands and islands. After my night on the ground I treated myself to Fishers’ Loft. I have splurged