St. John's Harbour at Sunset
Tug Boat, active harbour for the offshore oil rigs.
Colourful Cabot Tower, which commemorates John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland row homes facing harbour.
Down town view from hotel room.
Nick name, "jelly bean" homes.
Above the city is Signal Hill with walking trails and the site of the first transatlantic wireless communication,
Cabot Tower, which commemorates John Cabot's discovery of Newfoundland.
Cruise ships docked in the harbour.
Passage out to the Atlantic Ocean.
Quidi Vidi - This area was settled early in the 16th century.
Truly a small community within the city, Quidi Vidi is known for being one of the oldest fishing villages in North America. It's sheltered harbour was the perfect location for fisherman in early days of settlement in Newfoundland and, to this day, remains a useful fishing port.
Witless Bay Ecological Reserve
Atlantic Puffins are excellent swimmers, using their wings to ‘fly’ underwater while using their feet to control direction. They hunt a variety of small fish including capelin and sand lance. Puffins spend unto 8 months at sea and do not come to land outside of the breeding season.
Their days and nights are spent flying, preening, swimming or riding the ocean surface throughout the year regardless of weather.
Gull Island
The common murre or common guillemot is a large auk. It has a circumpolar distribution, occurring in low-Arctic and boreal waters in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. It spends most of its time at sea, only coming to land to breed on rocky cliff shores.
The largest breeding colony of Atlantic Puffins in North America!
The Black-legged Kittiwake is a medium-sized gull.
Puffins nesting
Fishing
This is their home for the next four months or so. Nesting in the shelter burrows dug into the side of the islands, they are extremely devoted parents, spending their days caring for their single chick.
July 1st Fireworks
