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and finally, from Trace again. Beautiful Lumsden, on the Straight Shore Route 320.
Back to ‘in season’ rules starting May 1 where we will only post current icebergs with locations on our Newfoundland Iceberg Reports Facebook page.
As I write on April 30 we have photographs of icebergs in Goose Cove, Tilting, Lumsden, Greenspond, Grates Cove and of course, the beauties featured in this post in Elliston.
Trinity Eco Tours has already started touring to bergs in the Elliston area.
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Fishing vessels, the “Aiden Isabella” and the “Cupids Clipper”, are seen by Eric Abbott, steaming past one of the three icebergs still grounded in Bonavista, Elliston and Mabery areas. I name all communities because the bergs are so big and so far off show they can be seen for miles from many directions.
Residents and visitors to the Bonavista Peninsula continue to share great photos to our Facebook page documenting the now three months since the large tabular iceberg first arrived.
We continue to pick up Facebook members and collect Twitter fans @NLIcebergReport.
One of our new followers is Jon Joy with Tuckamore Discoveries . Jon is hiking the peninsula already and knows all the best vistas for photography and sightseeing.
On the Maberly to Little Catalina hike Jon got a great shot of a 65 foot longliner fishing boat sailing near the iceberg. This sure puts it all in perspective.
We have more pictures of the 3 current icebergs on the Facebook page and some nice past shots. In another month, it will be current iceberg information only to facilitate the sharing of accurate information.
Feel free to share information with your friend planning trips to Newfoundland!
It’s officially spring according to the calendar and the sideways snow in Gander as I write this post. Welcome to Newfoundland!
The two peaked pinnacle iceberg and huge flat tabular iceberg have been hanging out up in Bonavista for two months and now are joined by a third iceberg as proven by the ever smiling Eric Abbott.
Thanks Puffinman for all you contribute to the group. I’ll let your pictures speak for themselves.
Thank you Linda for sharing shots of the trio of icebergs now hanging out on the Discovery Trail.
And here’s the Iceberg Chart for tomorrow.
And these photographers go out in all weather and stand there until they get the shot. Thank you all!
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This all started with word from the Straight Shore of a huge iceberg seen on January 14, 2016.
By January 19, it had moved to the Bonavista area and decided to hang around. We drove out from Gander to see it on January 24 and it was spectacular.
Grounded off the community of Elliston for a month the berg is now on the move again!
Eric tells us she measures about the same size as Green Island, Bonavista or 0,5 of a mile in length or a bit over 0,8 of a kilometre. That’s big, no matter how you measure it. She’ll be missed in Elliston now that she’s taking her leave.
Visible in Port Union and other communities, we’re hoping for more sightings as it moves along the coast.
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Using information from the Newfoundland Iceberg Reports Facebook page, we drove to Elliston on January 24 and on February 21 the huge iceberg is still there and visible from Elliston, Cape Bonavista and Port Union.
If you have a boat and going out to hunt turrs, it’s easy to see in the Catalina area too according to this picture from the Land and Sea Facebook page, credited to Elliott Burt and taken on February 21, 2016.
In addition to this resident iceberg, there is a second large iceberg hanging around Cape Bonavista for over a week now. Here’s Vanessa Cantwell’s sunrise shot.
As always, more can be found on the Newfoundlandland Iceberg Reports Facebook page.
Iceberg season 2016 started with a bang when Darlene Hillier shared her iceberg photo taken in Cape Freels with the local weatherman’s page.
Hello?
Darlene, can you please join our Facebook page?
And she did!
Darlene’s friend, Trace also got some shots of this berg and by the time it made it to Cape Bonavista and then Elliston, Eric Abbott was on the case. In addition to iceberg shots, Eric did some exceptional photography with the Sealer’s Memorial in Elliston.
The Sealer’s Memorial represents a father and son found frozen during the S.S. Newfoundland Sealing disaster. Documented by Cassie Brown in the novel, Death on the Ice, this tragedy and the loss in the same storm of the Southern Cross impacted a whole generation of Newfoundland families.
Eric’s capture of the snow-covered statue and an iceberg in background is stunning.
Eric Abbott photography. When you get over the lovely house, notice the massive iceberg!
After seeing Eric getting amazing pictures for a few days, we took a chance on Sunday, January 24 and drove to Elliston and then Maberly to find this. I apologize for the quality of the video but you can see how far our and how huge this berg is.
First attempt at filming the iceberg.
This was so exciting to see!
The berg is huge and moving towards Grates Cove area next but is very far out at sea so photos will be hard to get.
This shot with a ship in the background gives an idea of the size of this tabular giant.
Still hanging around on January 28 in Maberly. We’re assuming this berg is grounded and might hang out a bit longer.
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