To say that we were fearful that we would spend the day going from cove to cove and not see anything is an understatement. We had the iceberg finder website open for the 24 hours before and not a single iceberg was listed close to St. John's. I had made posts requesting help from people around St. John's. But we still weren't too clear if we would see anything.
We headed down Marine Dr, towards Middle Cove (the beach where the girls saw the ocean for the first time). And as we rounded a bend, through a clearing between the trees, sure enough, ICEBERG! Just saw the tip of it, but it was there.
We stopped at the lookout point first, so i could take some pictures of it. Man, never seen anything so cool before. We have all seen pictures of icebergs before, but seeing it in person is just amazing.
And this would be a good point to say a big thank you to my hubby for my big fancy lens so i was able to zoom right up to them.
We headed down to the beach with 2 very excited girls (the third.. well she could have cared less about the icebergs). And if seeing them way out in the ocean wasn't cool enough for them, there was chunks of iceberg on the beach. Kat was our Ice Queen. She loved them.
Ellie wasn't brave enough to hold the iceberg though. She gingerly touched it. Dani, well, she cried at it.
Ellie took her usual spot at the ocean - by the edge, throwing rocks in.
If our day was done after that one stop, it's pretty safe to say that we would all have been thrilled with it. But we continued on... Next stop was Flat Rock. Without checking a map, not sure if it's a cove or not.
At Flat Rock, there was a huge iceberg. And surprisingly enough, it was a flat iceberg. Besides the iceberg, we watched a lobster boat get its crates on board and then drive off into the ocean.
And from the other side, you could see another iceberg in the distance.
And very neat to see the iceberg under the water.
Next stop was Pouch Cove. No beach there. Just a small town. But a cute town. Also there was the East Coast Trail starting from Pouch Cove. If we were prepared for a hike, it would have been a perfect day to do that. Maybe this summer we will go back for a hike there.
Just as we stopped, Steph saw a piece of this iceberg fall off. Would have been neat to catch that on camera.
We headed down the Conception bay coastline after that. Not an iceberg to be seen over there. We watched the ferry take off from Portugal Cove to go to Bell Island (another stop to be made this summer). Again, not an iceberg to be seen around there.
So instead of following more of that coast, we headed straight back to St. John's. A quick pee break at home (which turned into a "how can we bribe Dani back into the car"), we then headed to Cape Spear. We were a little surprised that there were none in the *big* ocean view, but there were two between Cape Spear and Signal hill. (no, we didn't see them on Friday when we were at Signal hill. LOL)
You can see the start of the Narrows at the right side of the picture, so Signal hill is just off the picture on that hill.
So a quick (very quick) walk at Cape Spear. It was amazing how quickly the temp dropped. At the bottom of the road leading to Cape Spear it was about 18C.. At Cape Spear, it was maybe 4. Brrr.
We did a quick detour to Signal hill. And besides the two that we saw from Cape Spear, there was another further in the ocean, and several little chunks floating around there.
It was a fantastic day. :)
For more iceberg pictures (a nice selection of the 250 pics we took), visit here.
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