Canada
This
gallery is hardly representative of the magnificence of our Northern
neighbor, but although I have seen parts of all its provinces,
all but one of its territories, most of these images resulted from a
driving trip my wife and I made to Newfoundland and Labrador several
years ago. One of the highlights of that trip was our several day stay
at a bed and breakfast on the grounds of a now fully automated
lighthouse at the northern tip of Quirpon Island which sits just off the
northern tip of the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland. The
sunset is real - I didn’t believe it as it happened, but a tremendous
storm on the horizon just waiting to move in provided an intensity I had
never seen.
Summer home to thousands of identified humpback whales, more than
100,000 moose and nearly as many caribou, incredible coastlines and tiny
little villages, many not accessible by road, an infinite number of ways
to prepare cod, and some of the planet’s most hospitable people, a
driving (with a car ferry to the island) or fly and drive vacation
offers a wonderful experience. Perhaps the images in this gallery give
you just enough reason to consider such a trip to a part of North
America in which some live by choice, others by necessity, a nearly
subsistence existence.
