Rocky Harbour In Gros Morne

 Driving up to the Viking Meadows we stopped here in Rocky Harbour for lunch.

                                                    These were a display

Trout River and Woody Point

 These Are 2 Very Small Towns Close To Where We Are Staying

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Our Camp On Bonny Bay

Tablelands and Lookout Hike

Today We Did The Tableland And Lookout Hikes, 5 km For Both Hikes. We Did The Readers Digest Version...

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     The Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, are one of two sites on earth where mantle rock lies exposed on the surface and is readily accessible to visitors. This rock, called peridotite, was forced to the surface in a tectonic event approximately 500 million years ago, and it has weathered into rich orange color as a result of the oxidation (rusting) of the iron in it. The earth's mantle, which makes up approximately 84% of the planet by volume, lies underneath the crust at least 5 to 50 kilometers below the surface and has an average thickness of nearly 2,900 kilometers.Stepping onto mantle rock gives hikers an opportunity to ponder the ancient history of this planet we enjoy on our adventures. The viscous nature of the mantle, swirling slowly on a geologic time scale, is what causes the drifting of the continental plates and the formation of the mountains we climb and hike in. The iron that gives the weathered peridotite its rusty color has also enabled the planet to become magnetized, powering our compasses that we rely on for navigation. And the volcanism caused by the agitation of the mantle through the eons has released the vapors that now make up the atmosphere we fly through and the oceans we sail on.