Cape Spear

Last week Cass and I went to Cape Spear. A hill much like that of Signal Hill. This place is slightly different though. It is the most easterly point in North America. There is a light house and instead of many small cannons it was armoured with two 30 tonne cannons in 1941.

 I've heard they loose a couple tourists every year because they get too close to the rocks despite the warning signs. They get swept out to sea and are never recovered.

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You can see the light house in the top left corner of the image above.

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In this picture you can see the Cabot tower on Signal Hill that we went to two weeks ago.

This is one of the two 30 tonne cannons. The carriage that supported it was dismantled after the second world war. It had 36 000 kgs of lead weights used to raise the gun above the concrete barrier in front of it to protect it from enemy fire. It could fire rounds that weighed 250 kg every 90 seconds with it's support team.

The coastline as seen from the foot of the light house.

After viewing the coast we walked a bit of the east coast trail and found many blueberries to munch on before we went home.