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My Newfoundland Kayak Experience - Humpback Encounter
8/19/2010 4:20:35 PM

Saturday Stan and I had the good fortune to share some time with a humpback whale in Bull Arm. It had surfaced next to Stan about 200 metres away and before I knew it the whale was under me. I could see the white flippers in the waters beneath my kayak and motioned to Stan to come.

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Go east young hiker, go east
7/14/2010 1:28:16 PM
Stunning, ever-changing scenery makes a trail in Newfoundland one of Canada's hiking holy grails;
By: CRAIG COPELAND, Calgary Herald
Hiking the East Coast Trail outside St. John's last fall, I had one of those rapturous, living fully in the now, experiences.
My wife, Kathy, and I had seen nobody for an en...
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Best kept travel secrets - Battle Harbour
7/9/2010 11:49:25 AM
By: Scott and Becky go East
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An hour on a small boat in not too calm seas brings us to the centuries old fishing villiage of Battle Harbour, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We walk around for hours not seeing another person, and it is difficult to imagine that this was once the unofficial capital ...
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Travel Canada! Focus on: Newfoundland & Labrador

6/25/2010 10:55:56 AM
By www.castanet.net
Jun 5, 2010
Perhaps most famous for it's language and food, Newfoundland & Labrador is an adventure of its own waiting to be discovered by the inquisitive traveller. Boasting of impressive landscapes, Viking ruins and landing sites of the early explorers John Cabot and Leif Erickson, ...
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Icebergs, moose, whales, wild salmon and more…
6/10/2010 10:35:22 AM
Written by Keith and Heather Nicol. Photography: Keith and Heather Nicol. This article was published in the 2010 Spring Travel Guide.
We innocently asked our waitress at the Tuckamore Lodge in Main Brook, Newfoundland, where we might get some good photos of moose after dinner. "Well you won't need to go too f...
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Exploring the Fossils of Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve
5/20/2010 9:09:47 AM
By Peter Bull, Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism

Recently, my Dad and I took a two hour drive south from St. Johns to Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve. Named because it was a navigational hazard mistaken for Cape Race, it is one of the world's most significant fossil sites. Here you can find the oldest com...
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Twillingate Coastal Hiking Trails
5/12/2010 1:24:50 PM
By Allan Titus
The hiking trails on Twillingate Island are one of Newfoundland's gems.  We have hiked many trails on different continents and find the Twillingate trails to be right up there with our favourite hikes because of the variety of beautiful scenery they offer.  However, to our knowledge there ar...
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Steady Brook Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador

5/5/2010 10:28:05 AM
By Peter Bull, Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism
Steady Brook Falls is worth the hike anytime of the year, but early spring is definitely the best. Located about six kilometres east of Corner Brook and just off the Trans Canada Highway, the falls are very accessible and a great place to stretch you legs. We took the...
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Salt water geyser, archeological dig listed among top travel experiences in N.L.
4/28/2010 10:22:16 AM
By THE CANADIAN PRESS
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Visitors to Newfoundland and Labrador can easily get the wrong impression, says guidebook author Andrew Hempstead.
Take, for example, the "famously picturesque village" of Trinity, a former pioneer settlement west of St. John's. The old buildings are so well pre...
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Trek to the top of the Hummock (Bay of Islands)
4/22/2010 8:50:06 AM
By Paul Wylezol
President, International Appalachian Trail (IAT)

On a sunny October afternoon I managed to find the time to make a short trail blazing trek to the top of the Hummock, located 2kms southwest of Frenchman's Cove in the beautiful Bay Of Islands.  This 1,000ft hill provides fantastic vi...
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