![]() ![]() Sampling delicious partridgeberry ice-cream from Growler’s Ice Cream at Joe Batt’s Arm.Hiking the Turpin’s Trail, an eight kilometre route that starts at a sandy beach and ends at the Irish village of Tilting.What else to do on Fogo IslandĪside from iceberg spotting, there’s not a lot to do on Fogo Island except: Perhaps it was just like the one I’ve spotted in the distant waters – over a barren hill past a cluster of colourful timber houses – about the height of a 15-storey building. The small icebergs have broken off from a ‘mother ship’, which might have been a bigger iceberg that floated down from Greenland. A growler about the size of a house in Iceberg Alley Number of people lost to date ‘0’” Fogo Island is one of the corners of the flat earth and a perfect spot to see the icebergs float past along Iceberg Alleyīy the time I reach the board with a map linking Fogo Island and the other three corners of the flat earth – Hydra, Bermuda Triangle and Papua New Guinea – I’ve stripped down to a tank top.Īt the top of the hill, I can’t believe what I’m seeing.įive growlers, islands of white ice against a blue expanse of calm ocean, look lonely and oddly out of place in the summery landscape. ![]() “You are nearing the edge of the flat earth. ![]() Perspiring, I peel off my layers, chuckling at the sign that says: The sun’s rays dance on the windswept outcrop of mossy rock. It’s a mighty long way to go for a 30-minute hike, especially when it’s cold and windy.įortunately for me, the weather gods are in a good mood. You’re likely to see more moose than cars on the one-hour drive along the highway from Gander to the ferry crossing at Farewell.Īnd there’s not a lot to see on the 45-minute ferry ride to Fogo Island, which is followed by another 20 minutes driving, past colourful timber houses, before reaching the foot of Brimstone Head.Īs the crow flies, it’s 17,408 km from Sydney. To get to Fogo Island from Australia, you fly to Vancouver, on the west coast of Canada, then to either Halifax in Nova Scotia or Newfoundland’s capital, St John’s, on the east coast, and on to Gander, which was once one of the largest airports in the world and a refuelling stop for every transatlantic flight. To me, it’s a bit of mystery why a corner of the flat earth should be located on a small island with a population of around 2700 people and several thousand gannets. Well, that’s according to the Flat Earth Society. One of the four corners of the flat earth is a rocky hill in northeast Newfoundland. ![]() Iceberg season is May – July. You don’t have to take to the water to see them, they can often be spotted from the Newfoundland shore, but if they’re around, getting out among them is an unmissable experience.The air is noticeably cooler as you approach the huge turquoise flanks of the icy giants – the same kind that caused the sinking of the Titanic.Īn estimated 10,000 – 30,000 icebergs migrate south from Greenland every year, about 2,000 of which make it to the warm waters of the Gulf Stream where they eventually melt away after a 2-4 year, 3,200km journey. A melting berg often fractures throwing ice chips and knife-sharp splinters in all directions.Here’s where to see icebergs floating along Newfoundland’s Iceberg Alley: Fogo Island A database of ship collisions with icebergs concentrates on collisions in this North Atlantic area, and lists over 560 incidents from 1810 to the present. Iceberg Alley is the area from Baffin Bay (where icebergs enter the water from the massive glaciers on the southwest coast of Greenland) down to the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador where the bergs enter the shipping lanes.Ī typical “small” iceberg looms 5-15 meters above water level and weighs about 100,000 tons. The sea here is generally littered with “bergy bits” – floating chunks of ice that weigh around 10,000 tons – and “growlers” – smaller pieces the size of a grand piano weighing about 1,000 tons. ![]()
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