Travel Guide Péninsule D’avalon

We enter the Avalon peninsula by a narrow isthmus separating Trinity Bay (nice beach in Bellevue) from Placentia Bay, and immediately the landscape changes. The forests have disappeared to leave a huge wasteland. Indeed, the peninsula is largely composed of gravelly drumlins and moraine ridges, remnants of old glaciers. They left thousands of erratic blocks and an vegetation of lichens and stunted trees. The Hawke Mountains have their glacial origin and their almost Arctic climate is very popular with the horde of the 1 500 caribou that inhabit them. Moose and black bear also elected home in the peninsula. The soil is rich in bays: blueberry, plaquebières, black camarines, cranberries. Rivers abound in salmon,' and rainbow trout. There are many provincial parks where camping, fishing or swimming in the lakes. On the Avalon Peninsula, half of the population of Newfoundland is concentrated.