Beaches Path

The purpose of hiking Beaches Path was to get closer to the Mobile Iceberg, but the hike itself is beautiful. Also part of the East Coast Trial., we set out from Witless Bay on a beautiful sunny day, of 15 degrees.

“Witless Bay Ecological reserve:
This province has one of the largest concentrations of seabirds in the world. Every year, millions of seabirds leave the open ocean and come to land to breed. Here, in one of Newfoundland and Labrador's seabird reserves, over 1,000,000 pairs of seabirds gather to breed during the summer months. Located just off the coast from Witless Bay are four islands comprising the reserve. They are Gull, Green, Pee Pee and Great islands. Here is the largest Atlantic Puffin colony in North America and the second largest Leach's Storm Petrel colony in the world”

The trail is very well kept with bridges, boardwalks, many stepping stones, wildflowers and signs. The walk along the beach with shaded parts between the trees and covered with moss; looks as if fairies live there. There is a lovely stone bench on which is written: “If you don’t walk there, you won’t see it’

There were many tour small boats in the sea, but we didn’t see any whales or Puffins. If you look at the horizon with binoculars, it is covered with birds. The iceberg had started breaking up, but had diagonal blue stripes along it. Kris enjoys the hikes as well and is dead tired afterwards. We hiked about 4 k’s to Witless point, where we saw the wreck “Apennine” (1919). There are also many wrecks along this hike. From there you can see Mobile. We lay in the sun for a while and then returned.