{"id":1349,"date":"2010-08-23T05:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T11:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2010-09-19T21:26:24","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T03:26:24","slug":"tr-newfoundland-fortune-19-aug-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/tr-newfoundland-fortune-19-aug-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Newfoundland – Fortune (19 Aug 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After hitting up the St. John’s<\/a> area of Newfoundland where we also saw Signal Hill<\/a> and Cape Spear<\/a>, we then headed south down to Marystown and then Fortune<\/a>. Fortune appears a bit stark at first.
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But, if you look a bit closer, you’ll find the real beauty that Fortune has to offer.
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One of my favorite scenes of the day – boat houses.
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Dry docks.
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My favorite boat, for obvious reasons \ud83d\ude09
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Islands in the distance.
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Shoreline.
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Fortune has a population of about 2,000 people.
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With a history linked back to fishing, those lost at sea are deeply remembered.
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We were in Fortune to catch the ferry<\/a> over to St. Pierre, an island that remains a colony of France.
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Last view of the Fortune harbor from the ferry.
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Next up- ferry ride and wonderful St. Pierre! <\/p>\n


\nLinks to other Newfoundland and St. Pierre blog posts <\/strong>
\nGrand Bank<\/a>
\nSt. Pierre on Bikes<\/a>
\nSt. Pierre<\/a>
\nFerry to St. Pierre <\/a>
\nPostcards from Newfoundland<\/a>
\nFortune<\/a>
\nCape Spear<\/a>
\nSignal Hill<\/a>
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After hitting up the St. John’s area of Newfoundland where we also saw Signal Hill and Cape Spear, we then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1393,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}