Day 7 – Terra Nova and Salvage
Day seven brought with it a new National Park where we would begin our hunt for icebergs. A 400 km drive the day before had brought us here. We awoke to a beautiful sunny day and began exploring. Our first hike, a easy 9km return on relatively flat terrain, was a good bird watching expedition but ultimately left us unsatisfied as it lacked the great vistas of the previous days. Still we did manage to see several magnificent ospreys and bald eagles. Nevertheless, we were hungry for more. Our inn keeper from the night before had said that Salvage, a picturesque fishing village east of the park, was our best bet for icebergs.
Overlooking the town of Salvage
As often is with advice from locals, it was bang on. The village appeared largely ignored by tourists, but did have a set of trails into its surrounding hills. On one of these trailers, we hit paydirt. Five icebergs in view!
Iceberg!
What began for us as a short hike up to the closest look out point ended up being a three hour long hike from hill summit to hill summit, as we kept trying to get higher up and closer to the shore for a better look of the icebergs and with hope that more would be revealed. In the end, we got five icebergs in view, and a stellar vista of an archipelago of islands.
Going too far!
After all that pressing forward, we began our walk backwards and were rewarded for our push forward with a surprise siting of a moose on a hill ahead of us. What a hike!
