Gros Morne - Berry Hill

Berry Hill Pond  

The next morning we drove to Gros Marne  National Park. Not long on the road we stopped for a fellow stranded with a flat tire. It turned out he was an Irish piper on his way to Gander to work for 2 months on the Come from Away musical.  He was in the Broadway production for 5 years. Eventually he got a hold of a tow truck through AAA and we carried on.

Here he is playing the flute with the cast of the musical.

We arrived at Berry Hill campsite in the late afternoon. 

In the evening Leo and I walked down

 to Berry Hill pond in between rain showers

For some moody shots of the pond.

The whole campsite was blanketed with bunchberry.  

According to the brochure there are two kinds of bunchberry in the park, but we only saw the one common across Canada.

Also blooming was

Marsh marigold.

There were lots of warblers singing, but we had difficulty spotting them in the dense tuckamore.  Leo  did however get a shot of that most ubiquitous Newfoundland bird (and loudest singer), the white -throated sparrow.