Newfoundland

Favorite Places – Newfoundland

Posted by Gustav on Feb 5, 2009 in Newfoundland, Participants' Photos | 8 comments

The captain skillfully eased his lobster boat close to the leeward side of a small island about a half a mile out of Witless Bay on the Avalon Peninsula, a jut of land that dangles, like a hanging chad, from the southeast corner of Newfoundland.  Pointing the bow into the current, he steadied the boat as the ebb tide sucked the ocean out from underneath us.  Meanwhile, we adjusted our apertures, shutter speeds, and auto focus settings then aimed our lenses upward at the hundreds of Atlantic puffins adorning a grassy cliff that towered over the starboard gunwale.