DAY 13 Burgeo to Springdale



The Caribou

June 1, 2013
The morning greeted us with sun maybe high 50’s.  David was up early and ready so we could be dumped and on the road by 8:15 am…   Good bye to Sandbanks Provincial Park….at this point it is hot on my list of top parks.  We took a quick drive through the town of Burgeo and off we went into the SUN.

 

 

 

 

 

Posing Caribou

Like Ireland and Scotland, I left for this trip thinking there would be rain every day and any day or hour that didn’t have it I would celebrate and be thankful for.  On our ride out we had some special moments…seeing moose on two separate occasions (both about 25 feet from the rv when we saw them next to us on the right side).  They ran away when they heard us; I believe their vision is not too great.  Then we saw and photographed a lone caribou.  The herds that roamed here from what I’ve read have declined dramatically in numbers….sadly.   Since half of our trip out to Burgeo/Sandbanks was through rather thick fog, it was nice to see what we missed…more dramatic scenery!

 



Glass Beach

Burgeo is really far out from anything else-- at least 150km from the nearest town offering complete services and amenities.  Off the coast of Burgeo is Rameo (and island that people still live on) served by a people moving ferry.  Then there is Grey River…an outpost on the mainland that is only accessible by ferry from Burgeo..  The Canadian government is trying to resettle the community that lives there….resettle them anywhere they want on the mainland.  To do this they are offering each family $278,000 but only if 90% of the outposts inhabitants agree.  I guess that Grey River’s 10% would be forcibly resettled or denied the ferry service.  Tough call when generations have lived there.

 



More Glass Beach

Today the Trans Canada Highway had moose fence on it.  When I saw it I thought great Moose fencing until Saint John’s.  Ah, not so lucky it was only about 5 miles worth…must have been an especially active moose area.  Moose fencing means that the highway is fenced to keep moose out and from crossing the highway.  WHEN the moose get out of the fencing there are one way gates with an extra fencing panel to funnel them back through the gated area…of course they have to wander around and find the one way gates first and meanwhile they are on the highway.  The fences looked pretty secure though…not many places I could see where they could enter the highway.

 

Too much rv driving today!  We drove from Burgeo to Corner Brook (for some errands and a stop at Subway) to the visitor’s center in  Deer Lake  to Springdale and camped at George Huxter Memorial Park.

 

We wanted to just overnight somewhere but I was HUNGRY and needed to get some dinner made.  My only complaint with the Trans Canadian Highway  (and it isn’t the traffic…lol) is that it has no real rest areas (and I am not looking for any amenities just a parking lot that is flat). Yes, there are places along the TCH that one can overnight in but they are not marked on the map and they are not that plentiful.  We have used google maps to take a bird’s eye view of the road coming ahead to see what might be a potential overnight spot.