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Adventure Newfoundland |
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Take a Cruise |
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We invite you to cruise one of our planet's coastal masterpieces. Newfoundland and Labrador was built up from the ocean. When you enter a port like St. John's or L'Anse aux Meadows or Battle Harbour or St. Pierre you are seeing the same landscape that explorers, traders, and travellers viewed hundreds or thousands of years ago. The staff at Wildland Tours and Adventure Newfoundland has had the wonderful opportunity to work with expedition cruise ships as they have explored the Newfoundland and Labrador coast over the past decade. We have seen whales, polar bears, tropical sunfish, icebergs, dolphins, seals, and millions of seabirds while exploring the coast on expedition ships. At the same time, we have been privileged to share the unique cuisine and culture of our home with visiting passengers and crews. The new world's first expedition ship came to Newfoundland in 1536. Funded by a wealthy London merchant, the vessel explored the coast but never made it back home. The passengers enjoyed the first part of the cruise and reported that they saw amazing fish and wildlife populations before they became stranded ashore by an autumn gale. There wasn't enough food on board to get through the winter and the desperate folk eventually resorted to cannibalism before starving to death. Newfoundland and Labrador's next adventure with the cruise industry was in 1912 when the Titanic sank 365 miles southeast of St. John's. The Marconi Station at Cape Race, Newfoundland was much closer to the site where iceberg and cruise ship collided. It received the distress signal and coordinated the rescue effort. It also was the broadcast source for the Titanic story as news of this still-famous disaster swept around the world. Today's cruise visitors can expect a much happier fate when they voyage to Newfoundland and Labrador. Expedition ships offer the chance to comfortably explore little known fjords and sites of ancient settlements with knowledgeable and sensitive local hosts. At sea, some of the planet's largest marine wildlife populations offer unforgettable visual spectacles. Great ship-board accommodations, delicious local foods, memorable entertainment, and ancient cultural traditions all combine to create a wonderful vacation experience. Adventure Newfoundland and Wildland Tours is pleased to work with these expedition cruise lines in our various Newfoundland and Labrador ports.
Northern Labrador Polar Bear Cruise
This expedition to look for the polar bears of Canada’s newest national park takes in one of Canada’s least explored and most beautiful coastlines. The north coast of Labrador is home to some of the planet’s most stirring Arctic tales. Traders, explorers, distinctive cultures, and delicious traditions going back to the earliest peoples in North America combine to make this one of our planet’s most exciting coastal adventures.
Labrador Cultural
Expedition: Nain to St. Anthony
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August 26-September 8, 2008 In Labrador, we experience one of the planet's last great wilderness frontiers. Nain is the gateway to the Arctic, and we will be keeping a lookout for the Great White Bear! Labrador is sparsely inhabited by descendants of Paleo Indians that thrived 9,000 years ago, Viking settlers, Basque whalers, Moravian missionaries, traders and explorers. The Labrador tundra is inhabited by caribou, moose, wolves, lynx, Arctic hare and ptarmigan. The icy waters are teeming with whales, seal, salmon, char and iceberg. The Labrador coast supports the greatest variety of seabirds on the planet. Join us as we travel down this magnificent, wild and absolutely pristine coast, stopping at inhabited coastal communities such as Nain, Hopedale, Makkovik, Rigolet, Bateau/Black Tickle and Cape Charles/Battle Harbour. We will see icebergs, explore fjords, outpost villages and experience waters teeming with wildlife! You will experience fine, friendly Newfoundland hospitality in St. Anthony, Newfoundland and experience distinctive northern culture while traveling from Nain, Labrador.
Spirit Mountains
Cruise North, the Inuit-owned award-winning expedition company is offering an 11-day itinerary from St. John's, Newfoundland to Kuujjuaq, Quebec. Contact our Adventure Newfoundland offices to discuss this June 22-July 3 expedition. Adventure Newfoundland, and our sister company Wildland Tours, has a June 15-22 departure of its Viking Trail Experience and a June 15-22 departure of its Newfoundland Adventure that both make an ideal pre-cruise adventure.
Newfoundland - Fjords, Bays and Tickles
Explore western Newfoundland from the Bay of Islands to Gros Morne on a beautiful sailing voyage with Canadian Sailing Expeditions. From July 30-August 3, August 3-9, August 10-16, August 17-23, and August 24-40, Canadian Sailing Expeditions will be offering voyages that make a wonderful Newfoundland and Labrador vacation or an exciting add-on to a longer visit. Contact our office to arrange an exciting land program with Wildland Tours in combination with an adventure in the sheltered waters of western Newfoundland on the tall ship Caledonia. You can contact Canadian Sailing Expeditions directly (please tell them you saw them at Adventure Newfoundland) or contact our office at 1 (888) 615-8279 to arrange a wonderful sailing adventure. Wildland Tours and Adventure Newfoundland acts an agent and promoter only for these cruise lines. We also often provide advice and assistance with their shore excursions and port planning. These cruise lines are all government and industry regulated, and we believe them all to be outstanding corporate and environmental citizens. However the challenges associated with travel, sea, and tide have been known to humanity for thousands of years and we cannot accept any responsibility for any errors, omissions, schedule changes, or changes in service from what you see posted on their corporate websites. For all passengers who are travelling by booking a cruise through us, we do promise to be a useful and concerned source of Newfoundland and Labrador information and travel planning. |
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