This particular chunk of ice floated too close to shore and got stuck, making Ferryland a popular tourist destination during Easter weekend. The season started early this year due to a March storm that broke up more sea ice than usual. Each April, icebergs calve in the Arctic and float away, carried south by the current on a journey that takes them past Labrador and Newfoundland to the open sea. The beautiful iceberg appeared three weeks ago at the start of iceberg season along the Northern Atlantic coastline. 'But they're all special in their own way.' 'This one is unusually large,' says Mayor Adrian Kavanagh, a lifelong resident of Ferryland. No one can say just how big the leviathan may be, but admit that, yes, it is something else. Some of the more popular places from shore, or from. The iceberg towers 150 feet above the dark blue water of the North Atlantic, dwarfing the tidy clapboard houses in this shot by Reuters photographer Greg Lock. Iceberg Alley stretches from the coast of Labrador to the southeast coast of the island of Newfoundland. 2023 was one for the books starting unusually early at the beginning of March and running into August. If you've seen one chunk of ice, you've seen them all, right? But even longtime residents did a double take when an especially big one ran aground near the village of Ferryland. Every year the shores of our fair province are visited by some 10,000 year old frosty giants, and every year we welcome them back with open arms. Next, watch Icebreaker Boats: Breaking Ice on the Hudson River, Ice calving, Holgate Glacier at Kenai Fjords, Alaska, and Alaskan Kayaking Adventure: New Lives in the Wild.īonus from National Geographic: How the Titanic sank, a CGI animation.Locals living along Newfoundland's famed Iceberg Alley are used to passing icebergs each spring. Plus, via NPR: Iceberg info – Shape, Size and Colour from Environment and Climate Change Canada. “They don’t normally see this many until May or June when the region celebrates the coming of spring with its annual iceberg festival.” Sources 'Iceberg Alley: The Art of Iceberg Chasing in Newfoundland. This TRT World video reports that icebergs have been spotted early this year. A two-day 'Icebergs of Newfoundland Tour' offered by Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, for instance, costs 2,650. It’s considered a “large” iceberg, which range between 150 feet and 246 feet above water, according to Scott Weese, a senior ice forecaster with the Meteorological Service of Canada. In the spring of 2017, an hour south of St. “But this is I would say certainly the highest iceberg that we’ve ever seen,” she says. She tells NPR’s David Greene that she and her husband, Charlie, have seen some pretty large icebergs over the years because they live along what is known as “ iceberg alley,” for the frequency with which icebergs float by after breaking off of glaciers on Greenland or in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Or travel about 150 kilometres along the scenic Irish Loop to St.

There are delightful on-land whale watching opportunities from the Ferryland Lighthouse. The caped crusader, Bruce Wayne’s secret persona, the hero we need: Batberg Spotted in Little Bay Islands in 2014, this berg made national news and is one of many bergs to go viral. As the sunrises on a new day in Canada, the first land it touches dazzles - the coastal scene is Newfoundlands Iceberg Alley.

Watching icebergs is a Newfoundland tradition, and Ferryland bed-and-breakfast owner Maxine Dunne can see this iceberg outside her window. Icebergs come in all shapes and sizes, and a great example was this unique berg doing its best impression of the dark knight. NL Aerial Productions captured the view from the air, as seen above. Rising above the water by 15 stories and descending into the depths by an unknown amount- The New York Times reports that what’s above water “is only about 10 percent of its mass”-the huge iceberg is a striking spring sight for locals, tourists, photographers, and filmmakers. This iceberg is the first iceberg of the season to float by Ferryland, a small village in Newfoundland… and then it became stuck.

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