Junkel Retired and Loving It: Walks Scenery and a Boat Ride

We did a couple of hikes over the last few days. While we were in St. Anthony we beat "Daredevil Trail." Daredevil trail is 476 steps up the side of a hill overlooking the town and harbour of St. Anthony. It was the first real test of June's damaged left foot. June has now gone just about a week without crutches and she wanted to try this hike. She managed to climb up the stairs without to much difficulty but she had to "2 step" her way down. On the way down a young lady who must have been training for some type of race past us three times, two up and one down.

Elevation 550 feet Steps 476

Yup that's the steps going up the middle of the hill.

I can see the Top !!!

Are you sure you need me to back up some more????

Harbour entrance and Lighthouse Point

The view was spectacular and we survived to hike another day.

The next hike was with our friends Del and Gloria whom we met in Desert Hot Springs. As luck would have it they are also touring Newfoundland so we hooked up in Cow Head and on Canada Day we went for a 6 km hike with a 2 hour boat ride in the middle. We hiked into West Brook Pond. The Pond at one time was a inlet and as the ice age receded the land "bounced back" and the inlet was blocked from the ocean. The water is probably the freshest water anywhere as the is very little algae or plant growth.

June Del and Gloria at Trail Head

"For a Two Hour Cruise"

One of the many Rock Walls

From the dock you travel down the lake and enter a "fjord" with towering rock walls on either side. There were a multitude of water falls cracks and even ,if you looked just right, a few faces in the rocks.