Saturday night we had light rain as we slept in the tents at Roaring Cove on the East Coast Trail. The timing was perfect; Saturday was excellent weather for hiking and we got our social in before the rain. Sunday morning we woke to beautiful brilliant sunshine for our hike out. Brian and I walked out to the viewpoint over the cove with Flamber Head beyond.
Setting out along the forested path.
I checked out Flamber Head the previous day whereas the others bypassed it to hike directly into camp. So, on the way out we all stopped to climb the headland for ...
... the view, here looking south. Deep Cove Point in the near distance, Brigus Head further on and Cape Broyle Head in the far distance. Some of us have kayaked that shoreline back at the end of March 2014 and we resolved to do it again soon.
We walked long the west side of Freshwater Bay where at The Key, the bottom of the bay, a river runs out. An old bridge crosses the river but it looked like it soon would need replacing.
Climbing out of The Key uphill we gained some altitude and arrived at Gentlemans Head where we had another great view. This time looking south we could see Flamber Head and how far we had come.
Leaving Gentlemans Head we still had some elevation to climb and stopped to catch our breath in the sunshine.
Brian, Clyde and Dean took a side trail for the view at Cape Neddick before we all took another side trail at Money Cove for the view.
Walking into LaManche under fall colours.
It was my first overnight backpacking trip which I very much enjoyed. Such a first comes with lessons learned. I expect to modify what I pack for the next one and apply other lessons learned until I end up with a fine tuned set-up.
Many thanks to Dean for instigating the trip and Brian, Cathy, Clyde and Gary for sharing the experience.
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