Driving in Newfoundland - GREAT!!!
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Just returned from 14 days in Newfoundland and 4000kms...
excellent roads, TransCanada Highway has lanes wider than B roads in GB, the twisties can be alarming especially when the edges have broken away and you're staring at a drop into the sea! Potholes can be surprisingly large and deep!
Roads mostly empty except in St Johns where every Thursay and Friday there are impromptu cruises (on Kenmount Road at A&W), with all manner of tuned, hyped, shedded vehicles, many really superb. Saw a Mustang with a 7 liter blown V8 doing burnout starts with a dozen others also lots of other exotics...sorry no photos as I'd left my camera in the hotel....
Numpties? YES and what numpties...TCH has a limit of 100 and if you approach some numpties they slow to 50kph because they can't cope with the traffic! Mind you we drove 650kms on one day on the TCH and saw perhaps 100 other vehicles in all that time...
Backroads, great for hooning, especially the southern Avalon peninsula, south of Bay Bulls. Managed to get some amazing speeds in the empty countryside, nothing illegal of course...cough cough...
Met the Targa Newfoundland organisers for a quick chat as I hope to drive it in 2008, real Petrolheads! as are all the communities who assist and close their roads for this event...
The Newfies themselves are so friendly, willing to help, always stoppping for a chinwag.....
and the food!!! Fish Fish Fish of the freshest! but the veggies are often frozen or bottled... Newfie Beer is great especially 1892 a ST Johns QuidiVidi beer.....
as you can think with my effusive words, YES I enjoyed it!
A real Pistonheaders Paradise!!!
excellent roads, TransCanada Highway has lanes wider than B roads in GB, the twisties can be alarming especially when the edges have broken away and you're staring at a drop into the sea! Potholes can be surprisingly large and deep!
Roads mostly empty except in St Johns where every Thursay and Friday there are impromptu cruises (on Kenmount Road at A&W), with all manner of tuned, hyped, shedded vehicles, many really superb. Saw a Mustang with a 7 liter blown V8 doing burnout starts with a dozen others also lots of other exotics...sorry no photos as I'd left my camera in the hotel....
Numpties? YES and what numpties...TCH has a limit of 100 and if you approach some numpties they slow to 50kph because they can't cope with the traffic! Mind you we drove 650kms on one day on the TCH and saw perhaps 100 other vehicles in all that time...
Backroads, great for hooning, especially the southern Avalon peninsula, south of Bay Bulls. Managed to get some amazing speeds in the empty countryside, nothing illegal of course...cough cough...
Met the Targa Newfoundland organisers for a quick chat as I hope to drive it in 2008, real Petrolheads! as are all the communities who assist and close their roads for this event...
The Newfies themselves are so friendly, willing to help, always stoppping for a chinwag.....
and the food!!! Fish Fish Fish of the freshest! but the veggies are often frozen or bottled... Newfie Beer is great especially 1892 a ST Johns QuidiVidi beer.....
as you can think with my effusive words, YES I enjoyed it!
A real Pistonheaders Paradise!!!
Went to Newf for a month in 1990. Stunning scenery - stayed in a tent at Berry Hill, near Rocky Harbour for about 3 weeks of the trip. (Western side of the Island, north of Corner Brook).
Fascinating place geologically. I understand that Once upon a time the western part of Newf used to be the north side of the Great Glen Fault!It got folded over and most of it is upside down, with Peridotite/Olivine on the surface and the rock getting younger as you go deeper.
Did you get to see Western Brook Pond? (A photo I took back then):
Fascinating place geologically. I understand that Once upon a time the western part of Newf used to be the north side of the Great Glen Fault!It got folded over and most of it is upside down, with Peridotite/Olivine on the surface and the rock getting younger as you go deeper.
Did you get to see Western Brook Pond? (A photo I took back then):
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Went to Rocky Harbour, but it was raining lions and wolves, i.e. more than cats and dogs, visibility was around 1km with a ceiling of 200m, so the pond was out, although we'd thrashed across the island just to see it. Wasn't going to walk 3km in the pouring rain, sit with overweight smelly steaming 'Moricans in a boat for 90 minutes and see nothing, and then have to walk out again in the peeing rain!
The geology is very peculiar, especially the Labradorite. Found an outcrop and will be preparing a couple of lumps..... last seen in northern Finnland....
Did you go south from there and do the Corner Brook peninsula, Frenchmans Cove, etc? very reminiscent of Shihallion etc...
Went to Rocky Harbour, but it was raining lions and wolves, i.e. more than cats and dogs, visibility was around 1km with a ceiling of 200m, so the pond was out, although we'd thrashed across the island just to see it. Wasn't going to walk 3km in the pouring rain, sit with overweight smelly steaming 'Moricans in a boat for 90 minutes and see nothing, and then have to walk out again in the peeing rain!
The geology is very peculiar, especially the Labradorite. Found an outcrop and will be preparing a couple of lumps..... last seen in northern Finnland....
Did you go south from there and do the Corner Brook peninsula, Frenchmans Cove, etc? very reminiscent of Shihallion etc...
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