It's berry time, Twillingate, Newfoundland, September 2015

Our GPS unit took us on a rough road as a short cut back to the main road. The road became pitted and much too rough to be pleasant and we turned back to more established routes. We saw a family picking berries and they showed us where there were wild blueberries growing in abundance. We picked quite a number for our own needs. The local family were going to make preserves and had taken a couple of buckets. The wild berries are very sweet indeed. We have never eaten as many different types of berries as we have found in Newfoundland. 

Oh, and of course, the bears just love all types of berries. 

There be berries here!

And here they are! Wild blueberries.

Limestone Barrens at Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve, Raleigh, Newfoundland, August 2015

While at St Anthony we visited the Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve at Raleigh. This is a windswept hillside on the harbor opposite the village. Here on this limestone foundation are there plants found only in a handful of locations in Newfoundland and nowhere else. 

None of the trees are large. Mostly only smallish shrubs even though they may be many years old.

Limestone barrens -- very rare plants indeed.

Looking from the Burnt Cape reserve back to Raleigh