{"id":605,"date":"2009-08-14T21:54:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T01:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-03-16T17:53:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T21:53:24","slug":"twillingate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/twillingate\/","title":{"rendered":"Twillingate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8\/14 Fleur de Lys had originally been on my stop list, but after asking some people decided to head back out of the Baie Verte peninsula and go to Twillingate so we took 340 back to 1 and then caught 410 to go out on Notre Dame Bay.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at MapSource it appears there is no way to get out there, but you cross New World Island and there is a bridge to Twillingate Island.<\/p>\n<p>Twillingate is said to be the Iceberg Capital of the World, but we found out you need to get there by mid July at the latest. One of the few items on my wish list I didn&#8217;t get to see &#8212; an iceberg. But in light of how stunning the view was from Twillingate &#8211; it is one of the most beautiful vistas I have seen in my life &#8211; I&#8217;m okay with not seeing an iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>We walked out past the lighthouse to the edge of the cliffs and just sat there looking for quite a while &#8212; that&#8217;s how beautiful if was. This is definitely in the Top 3 most beautiful places on the trip maybe barely nudged out of first by Forillon.<\/p>\n<p>The town was quaint and very pretty too, just no a whole lot of places to eat.<\/p>\n<p>We camped that night at Dildo Run Provincial Park. Definitely one of my favorite campsites for the trip. If you get there try to grab site 26. You have to haul your stuff down wooden steps, but it&#8217;s secluded and a perfect site.<\/p>\n<p>Pictures of Twillingate:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/motorcycle-journeys.com\/past\/canada_2009\/photos\/newfoundland\/twillingate\/index.html\">http:\/\/motorcycle-journeys.com\/past\/canada_2009\/photos\/newfoundland\/twillingate\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8\/14 Fleur de Lys had originally been on my stop list, but after asking some people decided to head back out of the Baie Verte peninsula and go to Twillingate so we took 340 back to 1 and then caught 410 to go out on Notre Dame Bay. If you look at MapSource it appears [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trip_reporting","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorcycle-journeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}