We took a sightseeing boat tour out of St. Anthony. Saw a whale and lots of birds and a Caribou but what you want to see on these tours this time of year is icebergs.
These break off glaciers in Greenland and take around two years to drift down to the waters between Labrador and Newfoundland.
As they drift south they begin to break up. You can see the pieces in the water around it. Some people “harvest” the iceberg chunks and melt it down for drinking water and other beverages. This ice is thousands of years old so extremely pure.
When the pieces of ice find their way into the harbors or along the shoreline they’re known as “berger bits”.
Tom
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