Wildlife View Blog

Like i Said before, we did the “Irish loop”, Kind of Like the southern curve of the St. Johns peninsula of Newfoundland.

We didnt wanna do everything in one day, so we decided to stay the night in St. Shotts. There was a lovely airbnb, which is kind of more for couples though. But there is not much nearby plus host was very nice and gave us a good tip to watch for seals.

Plus St. Shotts is definetly a must see village. It was completely covered in deep mist, which is usual as we were told. They even had a Guiness world record for mistiest village once.

Also the village backstory is very interesting. It has like 70 villagers, mostly or exclusively (cant remember) old people. If i remember correctly the Government wanted to move them, but they refused and excepted the lack of infrastructure – the young people left though. The villagers that still live there, retired mostly from fishing.

Anyway our host recommended us “Cape Pine” to check out seals that lived nearby.

And thats what we did the next morning:

19.08.2024 Google Pixel 6a, Full HD Video, full zoom

Location: Cape Pine, Newfoundland, Canada; go right on a muddy way around the hill. You will see a memorandum and after the next turn watch out for seals.

This was also a Video, because seals in remote areas can be very shy. And this one definetly was. It smelled me from around 150m away (i didnt make a sound), turned around and hopped in the waves.

Anyway, cute memory and a good spot to check out seals, if they interest you.

Cape Pine does offer lots of views into the misty ocean. We even saw another whale, probably humpback as well.