The Kittiwake Coast

The Kittiwake Coast or also known as the Road to the Shore, was unfortunately a bit of a bust, although I am sure if the weather had been a little better that would have helped. Now there were lots of good things but we thought we would be driving along the ocean shore more, instead we saw lots of trees.

First stop Gambo, the tourist information was closed but we did get our picture of Joey Smallwood.


You can see by the sky it was a very dark day and it made Dark Cove look even more dark.



Now I know sometimes things are just not always as we picture them, but when they said we were going to see the Dover Fault, I thought we would see a big hole, like a fault. Well look to the right side of the picture where the fog kinda ends, that is the fault, some 450 million years ago.
The blueberries were ripe though on the trail to the top of the hill so I had a good feed.



The best part of the ride for me was Newtown, how can they find anywhere to build amongst all these rocks.



Newtown is the home of the Barbour Village, Mr. Benjamin Barbour first settled in Newtown about 1875 with his wife and eleven children. He was quite a prominent fisherman and they had quite a lovely home for the day, the village was where they lived, the school, the bait shop, etc.


His grandson Alpheus Barbour was a well known seal hunter and was some wealthy until the seal hunt died, he then had to sell his beautiful house to his uncle for 1000.00.

There was an excellent seal interpretation center in the village and we enjoyed the time we spent here.

Along the way we did find this beautiful beach, very few here in Newfoundland.

On up to Musgrave Harbour.

The harbour was full of these big ships, one had just come in with a load of clams, they had been caught out in a 40 knot winds and took them quite awhile to come in.

In Fredrickton, Sharon spied two masts and so we found a road called Shipwreck point and it took us to the wreck of the S S Ahern Trader. After doing some research, I found out that it ran aground Jan 10, 1960 and broke up the next day, here is what is left.

It was a long ride around the loop but we can say we did it. Tomorrow we are moving on up to Twillingate where we will stay for a week.