It was a beautiful morning at Woody Point, our entrance to Gros Morne National Park. Directly after breakfast we took our Zodiacs ashore, embarked on local school buses, and made a short drive to our hiking destinations. We found ourselves in what looked like a desert, but there is water, warmth, and forests in the distance. We trekked through a geological oddity, the earth inside-out! Hundreds of millions of years ago as huge tectonic plates crashed into each other, some of the earth’s oceanic crust and mantle were pushed up instead of down. The rocks here are heavy and rust covered, full of metals and poor of nutrients. No, this is not a desert, it is a magical alternative reality of strange shapes and colors.
Our afternoon was greener, but still rocky, still ancient, still spectacular.
