Falls On Otter Pond Brook
In Newfoundland, well off the beaten path, there are many little hidden jewels like this one here.
Otter Pond is fed by the much larger Lake of the Hills. And Otter Pond Brook … part of which you see here in this video … flows down into Lloyd’s River right where I’m parked. Lloyd’s itself flows through King George IV Lake Ecological Reserve, on down into Red Indian Lake a few kilometres from where this video was taken, and then the mighty Exploits flows out of Red Indian down into the ocean. The Lloyd’s/Exploits is the largest river system in Newfoundland.
If you think we have a lot of freshwater in this province of Newfoundland and Labrador, you’d be right. There are 31,340 square kilometres or 12,100 sq miles of it …. covering 7.7% of the total surface of area of the province and accounting for 3.5% of the actual freshwater area of Canada. Very little … if any … of it polluted. A very precious resource … which will no doubt become even more precious as the years go by.
We spend quite a bit of time exploring this region and the surrounding area … during all seasons. It’s not totally isolated but only rarely do you see anyone else.
As a little side note to that, though, last May 22nd about 4 kilometers before you get to this falls we came upon an RV parked along the side of the road right near the river. That was a little unusual … especially at that time of year. We went on past, checked out the falls, took a few photographs, and then headed back. On the way, we stopped and chatted with the folks who had just been getting water out of the river … pristine, unpolluted water … remember. It was a young couple from Germany with two little twin ( I think) boys about 3 or four years old … and a dog. They had shipped their RV from Germany into Halifax, crossed over into Newfoundland by ferry and were planning on travelling to St. John’s and then turning around to drive completely across Canada … then up into Alaska … and then perhaps down into Mexico for the winter. Quite an adventure! Oh to be young again!
To get to this out of the way place they had to make a right turn off the Trans Canada Highway on to Route 480 (The Burgeo Highway), then part way down turn off on this dirt road you see here. The road does eventually meet up with the Trans Canada Highway again near Badger … but it’s not exactly smooth driving. Guess they had checked it out on Google Earth and wanted to get off the beaten path. Anyway, there wasn’t much room where they were parked … and they were right by the river … so we told them if they drove another 3 or 4 kilometers they’d come to this scenic falls … a bigger area to park and trees on the right as a safety barrier from the river.
We often wonder how they made out and if they are gone back home by now.
Music: Terrier Waltz by Nat Keefe and The Bow Ties. Bluegrass style music seems to suit this area.
Enjoy.
Falls On Otter Pond Brook
In Newfoundland, well off the beaten path, there are many little hidden jewels like this one here.
Otter Pond is fed by the much larger Lake of the Hills. And Otter Pond Brook … part of which you see here in this video … flows down into Lloyd’s River right where I’m parked. Lloyd’s itself flows through King George IV Lake Ecological Reserve, on down into Red Indian Lake a few kilometres from where this video was taken, and then the mighty Exploits flows out of Red Indian down into the ocean. The Lloyd’s/Exploits is the largest river system in Newfoundland.
If you think we have a lot of freshwater in this province of Newfoundland and Labrador, you’d be right. There are 31,340 square kilometres or 12,100 sq miles of it …. covering 7.7% of the total surface of area of the province and accounting for 3.5% of the actual freshwater area of Canada. Very little … if any … of it polluted. A very precious resource … which will no doubt become even more precious as the years go by.
We spend quite a bit of time exploring this region and the surrounding area … during all seasons. It’s not totally isolated but only rarely do you see anyone else.
As a little side note to that, though, last May 22nd about 4 kilometers before you get to this falls we came upon an RV parked along the side of the road right near the river. That was a little unusual … especially at that time of year. We went on past, checked out the falls, took a few photographs, and then headed back. On the way, we stopped and chatted with the folks who had just been getting water out of the river … pristine, unpolluted water … remember. It was a young couple from Germany with two little twin ( I think) boys about 3 or four years old … and a dog. They had shipped their RV from Germany into Halifax, crossed over into Newfoundland by ferry and were planning on travelling to St. John’s and then turning around to drive completely across Canada … then up into Alaska … and then perhaps down into Mexico for the winter. Quite an adventure! Oh to be young again!
To get to this out of the way place they had to make a right turn off the Trans Canada Highway on to Route 480 (The Burgeo Highway), then part way down turn off on this dirt road you see here. The road does eventually meet up with the Trans Canada Highway again near Badger … but it’s not exactly smooth driving. Guess they had checked it out on Google Earth and wanted to get off the beaten path. Anyway, there wasn’t much room where they were parked … and they were right by the river … so we told them if they drove another 3 or 4 kilometers they’d come to this scenic falls … a bigger area to park and trees on the right as a safety barrier from the river.
We often wonder how they made out and if they are gone back home by now.
Music: Terrier Waltz by Nat Keefe and The Bow Ties. Bluegrass style music seems to suit this area.
Enjoy.