A couple friends of mine in St. John's are getting married, and I've got friends/family I haven't seen in a couple years (I'm a stereotypical newfoundlander with the 'home' itch) so we're driving across NL. Brought the good camera with us to grab some snaps. I'm here for a couple weeks and I'll post pics to this thread as time goes on.
This is the west coast of the island, known as the wreckhouse region. Everything's rock and there isn't much topsoil for forests to get established on, so the few trees that grow are malformed and bent by the wind. This is a random shot out the car window on the highway:
Random rock out in the bay:
ICEBERG! DEAD AHEAD! The arctic ice shelf is breaking apart at a higher rate than ever recorded, which means there's icebergs to be seen everywhere off the NL coast:
"I love you jessica!" "I love you too, ricky!" "lets vandalize this small town, nobody will know who we are!"
Another iceberg. This one's breaking apart, it let out a huge CRACK when I was taking a picture of it:
And everyone's favorite community name:
We were on a time crunch so we didn't go into the actual town and get a shot in front of the "Welcome to Dildo" sign, which is now a welded metal sign sunk into concrete because people kept stealing the previous signs.
A dildo is a wooden needle used for repairing fishing nets, and Dildo Bay viewed from above resembles the tool with an island where the eye in the needle would be. A dildo is also a similar size/shape to the "modern dildo", and the theory is that a lonely fisherman's wife created the alternative use.
This is the west coast of the island, known as the wreckhouse region. Everything's rock and there isn't much topsoil for forests to get established on, so the few trees that grow are malformed and bent by the wind. This is a random shot out the car window on the highway:
Random rock out in the bay:
ICEBERG! DEAD AHEAD! The arctic ice shelf is breaking apart at a higher rate than ever recorded, which means there's icebergs to be seen everywhere off the NL coast:
"I love you jessica!" "I love you too, ricky!" "lets vandalize this small town, nobody will know who we are!"
Another iceberg. This one's breaking apart, it let out a huge CRACK when I was taking a picture of it:
And everyone's favorite community name:
We were on a time crunch so we didn't go into the actual town and get a shot in front of the "Welcome to Dildo" sign, which is now a welded metal sign sunk into concrete because people kept stealing the previous signs.
A dildo is a wooden needle used for repairing fishing nets, and Dildo Bay viewed from above resembles the tool with an island where the eye in the needle would be. A dildo is also a similar size/shape to the "modern dildo", and the theory is that a lonely fisherman's wife created the alternative use.