Thanks, TO.
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Today we did the trail from Flatrock to Torbay. It's kinda vertigo-inducing and has a couple of hard bits. But it's great fun.
A few parts were as bit WTF... such as the rockslide-turned-stairs:
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A few mobile pics of the beginning:
A few tourists die every other year. They just get WAY too close.
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R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
R C, on Flickr
There were three little bergie bits well off the coast.
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See the shelf at the lower left?
People actually climbed down from up where we were hiking. And one girl was wearing heels down there.
You can take the girl off George Street...
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R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
R C, on Flickr
I'd never do it!
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R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
R C, on Flickr
You can barely see them but there are a couple of girls hiking at the top of this. We'd just come down from it.
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R C, on Flickr
A boat and icebergie bit.
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From an island to an island, from the green to the green,
They left their homes to settle in a place they'd never seen;
They exchanged the hills of Newfoundland for the ones they'd left behind,
And the green of the shamrock for the green of the pine.
Torbay (Tor is just an old Irish word for rocky) in the distance. It's a separate town, 450 years old a few years ago. It's where YYT is located.
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R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
R C, on Flickr
Omnipresent Signal Hill.
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The suburbs of Torbay with the edge of the East End of St. John's in the background.
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The main residential part of Torbay in the foreground, YYT in the background.
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Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove, where our rich folks live.
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R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
R C, on Flickr
Torbay by
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Almost in Torbay...
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Just in time to crash a wedding. But we didn't, of course.
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R C, on Flickr