Rocky Harbour to L'Anse Aux Meadows

After breakfast we headed north from rocky harbour to St Antonys and on to L'Anse Aux Meadows the place were we where staying, as we drove north up the coast the ice flows got bigger and bigger until the ice went from Newfoundland all the way across the 9 Miles to Labrador, the ice was amazing we had never seen so much and was much more impressive than the Ottawa river frozen.
There was lots of little fishing villages as we headed up, we also stopped at different spots to check out the views and look at the remains of a ship wreck from 1917. Sarah was hoping to see a moose again and she got to see one with in the first hour, we were also told to look out for Caribou on the flat areas, but we did not see any on the way up but saw some on the return trip back down to Deer Lake.
As we drove up the 400km to the top the amount of snow got more and more.
We got to the top and went to St Anthony and had a look around the town and then drove out to the light house and looked out to the Atlantic Ocean and also to see if there was any ice burgs floating down the coast but there was not.
We then drove the last 50km to L'anse Aux Meadows and to the bed & breakfast where we were staying. we then drove around the area and looked at where the vikings used to live if you can do that with about half a metre of snow on everything, it turns out if we had been here a week earlier we might have seen the polar bear they had, talking to the b&b owner there get polar bears regularly and they are normal tranquilised and then flown back across to the other side of the ice flows.
We watched the sun set and then had an early night.
In the morning we walked across the snow over to the sod huts that where below the visitors centre, although they where half buried under the snow you could see the scale of them. As well as the parks huts there was also ones from Norstead, which is a village where in Summer they have people dressed and working like the Norse would have years ago. We decided not to walk to the visitors as the snow was to deep, after a bit of a walk we got back into the car and started the drive all the way back to Deer Lake, the 5 hour drive did not seem to take to long so that was good, and also the weather was the best we have seem since we left home.
On the way back down we took a detour to Trout river pond, the area heading into it was different, we drove from sea level up to 300m and back down in about 3km. on the way there was a large mountain with snow, and lots of ski marks, so when we saw two people starting to walk to the top it all made sense.
Although the trip back was long, it was worth the drive to go to the meadows to see it.