Western Newfoundland

July 9, 2023: Arrive by 5:00 PM today into Deer Lake and transfer to the Marble Inn Resort. We will meet for a group dinner at 6:00 PM to get to know each other and to go over the itinerary for the week.

July 10, 2023: After breakfast we’ll head out to the various fishing villages, including Lark Harbour and York Harbour at Bay of Islands. By evening, we’ll make our way to the western tip of the peninsula to photograph sunset over the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

July 11–12, 2023: We’ll head south to Cape Anguille Lighthouse. The Inn at Cape Anguille is a restored century-old lighthouse keeper’s home, and is designated as a Registered Heritage Structure for Newfoundland and Labrador. The Atlantic Ocean provides backdrop here to a landscape dotted with horses and sheep. We’ll photograph the rugged shoreline and cliffs, and well as a variety of local and migratory birds. Semi-palmated plovers, black-bellied plovers, Arctic terns, bald eagles, American kestrels, great egrets, and ospreys all call the area home this time of year. This corner of Newfoundland is also a great place for spotting blue whales, the largest animals to have ever lived on earth.

July 13–14, 2023: These days we’ll head north to Gros Morne for a hike on the Green Garden Trail. Together we will wander the coast in search of sea stacks, pillow lava, wild meadows, sea caves, and semi-wild sheep. We will also make a visit to the picturesque lighthouses at Woody Point and Lobster Cove. Afterwards, we will head further north to photograph sweeping barrens dotted with reflection ponds and accented by blooming spring flowers.

July 15, 2023: Today we’ll move farther north into a more remote part of Newfoundland, where we’ll visit secluded fishing villages set along the shoreline. Look for icebergs that have been making their way down the Labrador coast from the Arctic!

July 16, 2023: We will begin the day at UNESCO World Heritage site L’Anse aux Meadows. At the tip of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula, L’Anse aux Meadows is a small encampment of timber-and-sod buildings built over 1000 years ago by Viking settlers. We’ll discover a wealth of archaeological finds, and watch as costumed interpreters bring early history to life at this internationally renowned archaeological site.

July 17–18, 2023: Our final days of the workshop will be spent on Quirpon (pronounced kar-poon) Island, where we’ll be staying at a 1922 lighthouse keeper’s home. Fully restored, Quirpon Lighthouse Inn features beautiful rooms at the base of a still-operating lighthouse and is a Registered Heritage Building. Located off the northernmost tip of Newfoundland, Quirpon is the province’s best location for viewing icebergs by land and by sea as they are carried south on the Labrador Current. We’ll explore the coastline for these massive wonders, as well as for the subtler beauty of the barren tundra and endless cliffs that surround this small private island.

July 19, 2023: We will depart Quirpon after breakfast. We will spend the day exploring before arriving at the hotel in Deer Lake. We will have our final dinner together to celebrate the experiences we’ve had in Newfoundland. Flights out the following morning.