Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Visit to Round Harbor

Round Harbour is a small community located on the Baie Verte Peninsula 11 km off route 414, settled in the mid 1800's. It was always a fishing settlement with a population from about 50 - 150, but as a result of the shutdown of the fishery today only 6 people are still living in Round Harbour.

On our way in we saw this iceberg in a neighboring bay.

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This was our first view of the town itself

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Like many of the small bays here the side hills are quite steep making building difficult

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There is still fishing done here

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As the church was open we visited it. Surprisingly, with only 6 or 7 part time resident families, it seems to be in use. This is a magnificent old building with amazing woodworking.

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Tom

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