Gros Morne National Park - The Tablelands
Victoria Beyer
EASTERN CANADA ROAD TRIP 2019
We were so excited to go see The Tablelands at Gros Morne National Park. This is an interesting place in geological terms - one of the few places where the Earth’s mantle protrudes above the crust. There is little vegetation, and glaciers carved beautiful curves into the landscape. It makes for a very unique sight when you can see green hills in every other direction.
There is a path that ends in a boardwalk at Winter Park Brook Canyon. You are allowed to hike, however, off the trail here, which we would have done had we more time. On the way back, we examined the pitcher plants that are easy to pick out of the landscape. My daughter had been given an eye dropper as part of her National Parks booklet, so that she could pull the liquid out of a pitcher plant, examine its contents, and then return the liquid to the plant. It was really neat to see the half-digested bug parts.
