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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: johnw on April 12, 2016, 09:39:51 PM

Title: Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula
Post by: johnw on April 12, 2016, 09:39:51 PM

East coast Labrador - the willows, rhododendron, Diapensias, Vacciniums and Loiseleuria!  Phyllodoce and Cassiope too.   It's like western Nfld. x 1000.
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But still The Great Northern Peninsula in western Newfoundland is nothing to sneeze at:

To give you an idea of the area here are those massive sheets of rock at Cape Norman on the Great Northern Peninsula with Labrador off in the distance.  No wonder the plants have to retreat to shelter.  Maria Gallaetti of Alpines Mt. Echo, forumist Philip McD and the notorious botanical bloodhound Jens Nielsen of The Himalayan Garden who is without fail well ahead of everyone and always finds everything first, a truly great group to travel with.  What more could one ask for - rocks, ocean, alpines, conversation, seafood, copious humour and ale.

johnw 

Title: Re: Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 12, 2016, 11:31:48 PM

Love this, a wonderful trip but could we have it in a different thread please?

Title: Re: Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula
Post by: johnw on April 13, 2016, 02:23:13 AM

Excellent idea, I should have thought of that......Travel perhaps Maggi if you could....

johnw

Title: Re: Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula
Post by: Alan_b on April 13, 2016, 10:02:19 PM

For the geographically challenged: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Norman

I've been to Fogo, Twillingate and Moreton's Harbour but nowhere near that far-afield in Newfoundland. 

Title: Re: Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula
Post by: Hoy on April 15, 2016, 05:51:54 PM

I like both Markland and Vinland!

John, will you bring more pictures, please :)

Title: Re: Cape Norman on The Great Northern Peninsula
Post by: johnw on April 15, 2016, 09:21:43 PM

Hoy

My computer is not recognizing my cd and those few pix took a half dozen bouts of inserting, no recognition, shutdown, re-start, re-inserting then all of a sudden no problem. Fed up unless someone can suggest a solution.  Upgraded to Marverick from Leopard in January.....

john