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| Business Pond trail in Valleyfield |
June 9, 2013
Well
it rained and rained from the time we landed at the Clarenville Visitor’s
Center last night until noon or so today….consistent driving rain.
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| Newtown Harbor |
We
drove from Clarenville to Newtown today.
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| Newtown - Barbour Village |
The
ride from Gambo to Valleyfield was nondescript.
But Valleyfield had a trail we could walk. A nice trail called Business Pond Walking
Trail. It was on boardwalks around a
pond (a nice sized pond). It felt good
to get a decent walk in…my back was hurting to sit so much. I am not a sitter!
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| Newtown - very picturesque |
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| Newtown |
From
New-Wes-Valley on 320 there was a little offshoot of a road that took us by
Valleyfield and Brookfield, Wesleyville, Pound Cove, and finally landed us in
Newtown. This proved to be an excellent
choice…finally some picturesque towns with older buildings and not ranch
houses! The shoreline was low lying
rocks (not cliffs) and clearly fishing (crabbing/lobstering was still done in
these towns) on a small scale at least.
We took pictures along the way. We stopped in Newtown and walked all
around to see if there was a place we could park our motorhome (remember it is
a 24 foot class C).
We had all but given
up when we happened across a little area that said “Visitor’s Parking” and it
had a water spigot (we didn’t use it for drinking but toilet flushing), picnic
tables, AND a dump station!!!!! So that
is where we parked it and of course, we were the only ones there. It is right around by the Barbour Living Heritage
Village (not opened at this time although the Traveller’s Guide said it was). Took lots of pictures here!
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| Newtown, NL |
By
the time bedtime rolled around and it was pretty much dark (10 pm), thick fog
had rolled in.
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| views of Newtown |
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