Serenity Sunday: Shoal Point, on the Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland & Labrador

Shoal Point is a strip of land jutting out into Port au Port Bay, not far from the small community of Boswarlos in Newfoundland. Except for the few fishing huts there is no evidence of habitation. I took these photographs in the fall of 2010. Shoal Point is mainly bog but fishers continue to use the area to ply their trade and many local residents enjoy riding a quad to visit the point. If you’re lucky, you may catch sight of a moose out on the bog. At one time an oil rig stood at the outermost point of land. I confess to feeling great relief that oil companies never exploited the area, even though oil was found there. The oil rig that once stood on the point was an exploratory venture only. shoal Point is a great place to watch sea birds and water fowl as well as pods of porpoise and sometimes pothead whales.

I hope you will enjoy these photos of the area and gain a sense of how this land has been used and enjoyed for millennia. I have included a short video at the end of my post of the kissing rocks off the shore of the Port au Port Peninsula.

Driving along the highway enroute to Boswarlos we drive through the community of Agathuna, a little further along we come to the quarry which once promised a bright future for the area

Known locally as “Barn Hill” at the bottom of which lays the Agathuna Quarry

Lobster pots are stacked in wait for the next lobster season

One of just a few fishing cabins on Shoal Point

A dory sits in wait for another day of work, taken in the community of Mainland on the Port au Port Peninsula

A small trawler at work out on Port au Port Bay

In preparation for the winter’s cold, logs for fire wood are stacked and ready

Vibrant vegetation in the fields surrounding Shoal Point

One of several huge boulders that provide a place to sit and gaze out to sea

Old pallets a.k.a. skids form a make shift walkway across the swamp at Shoal Point

“Red sky at night, Sailors delight ….Red sky in morning, Sailors take warning”

The hill across Port au Port Bay from Boswarlos is known as Pine Tree