Newfoundland

In 1990 we spent nearly the entire month of September driving the coastal roads of Newfoundland. We landed in St.John's where we picked up our rental car and headed south on highway 10. We stopped often to shoot a few frames of film as the scenery was awesome and the light near perfect. In many places the caribou ran along beside the road, so close that you felt you could reach out and touch them.
One of our favorite places was the little town of St. Bride's on Placentia Bay (highway 100) but at that time you could break an axle trying to enter after leaving the Trans Canada highway. The town sits on an extremely lofty precipice overlooking the Atlantic below. It seemed as if we had been taken back in time to a more tranquil and romantic era where the solitude was only broken by the loud country music on Saturday nights. The accomodations were great, the food was superb and the cable television worked. We photographed in this area for several days and hiked many miles along the coast to capture lighthouses and sea birds. Bird Island lies just a brisk walk from St. Bride's and is a sight to behold at any time, especially when you are the only  visitors and the weather is perfect
We would like, very much, to return to Newfoundland but feel quite certain that the aura of several decades past is lost ---- but then that is why we photograph.

The pictures with this blog are but a few of the numerous images taken in Newfoundland.