The lighthouse at Cape Spear, like all of Newfoundland, is often enveloped in thick fog. .
We wanted to get away for a week and decided on revisiting The Cape. We hadn't been there in years, even though it is only a two hour drive down the road.
40 miles of beach and beautiful terrain.
As you walk down to the rugged shoreline, you'll be rewarded by paying some attention to the grasses and small plants and lichens that cling to the rocks. Remember: it's the North Atlantic out there!
The oldest surviving lighthouse in Newfoundland and Labrador is located at the most easterly point of land in North America. It has been restored to its 1839 appearance and shows how a lightkeeper and his family might have lived in the mid-19th century.