Lot's of photos for today, and I didn't feel they warranted a thread so this shall be the locale.
I took a drive down to Port au Port today and decided to do something a little different. So I turned off the main road (itself being off the beaten track, relatively speaking) and went to Boswarlos, pronounced Boss-Wallace, and Agathuna, pronounced Egg-a-tuna for simplicity sake, Port au Port West, and The Gravels. Boswarlos and Agathuna are the only two originally english communities on the peninsula. Agathuna was established as a quarrying town and once housed all the amenities of an early 20th century town: bars, a movie house, stores, church, etc... and the limestone was exported by DOSCO which operated the steel mill in Sydney, NS. Boswarlos is older, dating to the late 19th century, and was an english protestant fishing community. Up until the mid-1990s it was known as the only community on the Port au Port with 0% unemployment. Even today it has a clean reputation, much better than that of nearby Sheaves Cove and Ship Cove which routinely make the evening news for criminal activity.
The Gravels was a commercial centre located between Port au Port West and Berry Head on the isthmus itself. Prior to the opening of Bowater's paper mill in Corner Brook most of the business on the west coast was done in Port au Port, and many believed this would be the site of the first west coast city in Newfoundland. The wealth of these communities in the early 20th century is demonstrated by Our Lady of Mercy Roman Catholic Church in Port au Port West, which is to this day the largest wooden structure in the province.
This little photo trip takes around the West Coast of East Bay, in Port au Port Bay, in western Newfoundland. You can see the communities these photos are from, all right at the eastern edge of the peninsula. Confused yet? I hope so!
So, here we go!:
Starting off in town, some kids out on a field trip
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Bienvenue a la peninsule
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Pine-Tree Ski Hill in Point au Mal, which never opened:
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Abbott & Haliburton Co. - The last remaining of the Gravels businesses, and the oldest firm on the west coast of NL at 105 years.
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The isthmus
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The largest wooden structure in Newfoundland:
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Felix Cove:
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Felix Cove intersection:
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The Turn-Off
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Looking back to PAP West from Agathuna:
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The road in Agathuna now runs through the quarry:
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The rock wall, look carefully and you can see the power lines to give some perspective
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Yeah, this is a house:
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I took the next 5 photos while standing in the same spot and just turning:
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A very patriotic Boswarlian:
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This:
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is across from this:
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Lobster boat in the water, and the DEW line radar site visible atop the mountain:
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