There is a 3 km walk over peat bogs and rock out-cropings to get to the pond area and the boat launch. It was such interesting landscape. I have a love of gnarly trees and this walk was a feast for my eyes.
There is so much wind and such harsh growing conditions on much of Nfld. and most of the trees are stunted. There is a local word for these stunted evergreen trees - Tuckamore. Tuckamore forests can be a mixture of species and they are impossible to walk through as you will see from the photos.
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| Tuckamore Forest |
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| Tuckamore Tree |
Here's a couple of trees for my gnarly photo album. I love these!
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| Is he sticking his tongue out at me?! |
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| This is a fibonacci hairball if I ever saw one! |
There were bright spots in this bleak landscape
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| The trees had lots of new growth but it was tiny! |
The bog or marsh is endless in some places. I read somewhere how deep the peat is (don't remember) but it seemed like a lot and it takes a long long time to make that much peat. There is a berry that grows in the bog called (by the locals) bake-apple. I was told that it is about the size of a raspberry and grows in that thin layer on the top of the bog.
They built board walks over the bog to protect its fragile surface and, I suppose, to keep from losing tourists in the mud. It was windblown and quite desolate looking to me.
Wow those trees are Great! Thanks for sharing all the wonderful pictures.Are you going back to Nova Scotia? If so see if you can visit a restaurant in Glace Bay called Collete's Place, Cape Breton Island I think. They have some wonderful homemade food that is the pride of Glace Bay, as I here it. All made fresh, no frozen stuff.
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