Overland to the Rock - A Road Trip to Newfoundland via the recently completed Trans Labrador Highway - Main Narrative Part III - June 2011

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Telegraph Office, 1866-1880		Wire Samples


Lithograph, Cable Prep	Multiplex Distributor Table	Telegraph Machine


Current Meters	Switchboard	From under the sea


Repeaters, even back then	Tape reperforator?	Telegraph Cost Chart


Worker's Houses

After taking a good long look around the Cable Station, we continued north on our peninsula drive. The terrain grew more barren and the scenery more interesting, and when we arrived at the town of Old Perlican, we steered off the highway and onto an old gravel road, wanting to continue a little longer along the edge of the coast. The sometimes water-filled rough gravel road eventually brought us to the northern most settlement on the peninsula - Grates Cove.

courtesy JInnes
Entering Winterton	Seaside at New Chelsea	Ships at Old Perlican


Daniel's Cove Road	Grates Cove	Rock Walls of Grates Cove

Apart from being a scenic, windswept town on the barren coast, Grates Cove is notable: it is one of the few places in Newfoundland where one can still see hand-built rock walls, running up and down the hillsides, dividing parcels of land. The other notable thing about Grates Cove is that this is where legend says that the famous John Cabot first landed in North America in 1497, and took possession of 'the new found land'.

		courtesy JInnes
Old Cemetery, Grates Cove	Tombstones and village	Rock Wall closeup

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Andrew at Grates Cove	Tombstone and Church	House and cliffs

After taking in the stark beauty of Grates Cove, we started our way down the eastern side of the peninsula. The weather continued to be unsettled, but as we made our way down highway 70 (which hugs the eastern shoreline of the peninsula we are on), we got brief periods of sunshine, illuminating very pretty coastal towns and their brightly colored houses.

courtesy JInnes	courtesy JInnes
Burnt Point	Photography on Avalon P.	Wharf at Ochre Pit Cove


Broad Cove	Sunlit, colorful houses	Church, Broad Cove

Our peninsula drive had been most interesting and quite scenic, but it had cost us a lot of time. It was now approaching 7pm, and we still hadn't made it back to the Trans-Canada. Although we had nearly completed our coastal circuit of the peninsula, we chose to take a short side-road inland to where we could access a high-speed bypass that quickly brought us back to highway 1. It was now time to make good time - to St. John's.

courtesy JInnes
Salmon Cove	SS Kyle	Divided Trans-Canada


Rolling Trans-Canada

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