[English below] Am Sonntag vor einer Woche bin ich mit ein paar anderen Kayakern von Tors Cove aus durch's Witless Bay Ecological Reserve zu dem aufgelassenen Fischerdorf La Manche gepaddelt, welches auch ein beliebtes Ziel am East Coast Trail ist. Auf dem Weg haben wir die Bird Islands mit Millionen von Seevögeln erkundet. Es gibt dort unter anderem 260.000 nistende Puffin-Paare (die netten Vögel erinnern mich immer an die Island und Färöer-Reisen mit Johannes und Papa), die um diese Jahreszeit Unmengen an Capelin verspeisen - teilweise so viele, dass sie kaum noch fliegen können vor lauter vollem Magen...
Die Mittagspause in La Manche war ein interessanter Ausflug in die Geschichte Neufundlands, die besonders lebendig wurde als uns ein netter älterer Herr von seiner Jugend im dem Dorf erzählte - und davon wie 1966 ein Hurricane die 1840 gegründete Siedlung zerstörte. 
Die Bilder oben zeigen mehr oder weniger dieselbe Perpektive, 2010 (mit East Coast Trail Brücke) und 1890, das Bild unten stammt von 1964.
Last Sunday a few of us paddled out of Tors Cove via Witless Bay Ecological Reserve ("bird islands") to the abandoned community of La Manche. The bird islands are home to over a million sea birds, including 260000 nest ing pairs of puffins, which I particularly like - probably because they remind me of two great trips I took to Iceland and the Faroe Islands with Johannes and dad. in 1996 and 2001...
During our lunchstop at La Manche, a friendly older gentleman made the history of La Manche become alive when he told us of his youth in the community, and how a hurricane destroyed the place in 1966. He told us where his family's house was, and where they grew their vegetables, so when I got back home, I dug up some old photos of La Manche on MUNs website and matched them up with a similar perspective from today - if you look above, you see the 2010 view of the East Coast Trail bridge from the water, and a pretty much identical angle from 1890, as well as a shot from 1964, just a couple of years before the hurricane... The stories and photos made the history of the place so much more real, and imaginable...
Last Sunday a few of us paddled out of Tors Cove via Witless Bay Ecological Reserve ("bird islands") to the abandoned community of La Manche. The bird islands are home to over a million sea birds, including 260000 nest ing pairs of puffins, which I particularly like - probably because they remind me of two great trips I took to Iceland and the Faroe Islands with Johannes and dad. in 1996 and 2001...
During our lunchstop at La Manche, a friendly older gentleman made the history of La Manche become alive when he told us of his youth in the community, and how a hurricane destroyed the place in 1966. He told us where his family's house was, and where they grew their vegetables, so when I got back home, I dug up some old photos of La Manche on MUNs website and matched them up with a similar perspective from today - if you look above, you see the 2010 view of the East Coast Trail bridge from the water, and a pretty much identical angle from 1890, as well as a shot from 1964, just a couple of years before the hurricane... The stories and photos made the history of the place so much more real, and imaginable...
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mehr pics #79 :)
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