This is Cape St Mary's, which is a bird Sanctuary on the south western tip of the Avalon Peninsular. These photos were taken in September 2006 when as the guide put it "only 40,000 gannets were nesting". You can click on any photo to enlarge it.
At the bottom of the page are the words to the well known Newfoundland song " Let me fish off Cape St Mary's "
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Let me feel my dory lift
To the broad Atlantic combers,
Where the tide rips swirl and the wild ducks whirl
Where Old Neptune calls the numbers
'Neath the broad Atlantic combers....
Let me view that rugged shore,
Where the beach is all a-glisten
With the Caplin spawn where from dusk to dawn
You bait your trawl and listen
To the undertow a-hissin'.
When I reach that last big shoal
Where the ground swells break asunder,
Where the wild sands roll to the surges toll.
Let me be a man and take it
Where my dory fails to make it.