max wrote:I'd love to do this very trip myself someday. I was just looking at the gallery you posted to sort of make out the general route you took. How did you get from Red Bay, NL to St. Anthony, NL? Was there a ferry? And why did you end up taking the ferry into quebec instead of the roads? Just curious.
Edit- just did a bit of googling, and I found the Ferry from QC to NL.
Here's a map of our route (more or less, we made some changes here and there):
The ferry in Quebec on the second day was a surprise. We kept driving past those orange scrolling road construction signs that were saying something along the lines of, "Why rush, there will be another boat." But, not knowing there was a ferry across the Saugenay River (it looked like a fixed bridge crossing on the map), I thought they were talking about some of the touristy whale-watching boats along the St. Lawrence Seaway.
All told, there were four ferries:
1. Saugenay River, Quebec
2. Happy Valley-Goose Bay, NL, to Cartwright, NL (this is an overnight, 13-hour-ish ferry that basically goes down and out a long lake and then back into a harbor. It will be gone as of late next year when they open a road link between HV-GB and Cartwright.)
3. Blanc Sablon, QC, to St. Barbe, NL (this is a crazy, old Swedish, German, Estonian ferry that has a pretty checkered past and plies a VERY windy stretch of the Labrador Strait.)
4. Port-Aux-Basques, NL, to North Sydney, NS (let's just put it this way, halfway through the ferry ride, I woke up from my sleeping spot on the floor and thought, "Wow, it's calm. We're not slamming into waves anymore in a 100-mph crosswind. Either it's gotten calm or we sank." I was too tired to investigate further.)
