So, if you lost your bearings - use this pole, track yourself down on the map. You may find it would also be a good spot for various kinds of ‘fresh starts’ 
I tell you, come to Newfoundland, regain your connections with the world, and start over again!
Them guys in Newfoundland seem to know how to found and settle life on the solid rock.
Sure it is not too bad a point to start some new endeavors. For example, - to start exploring a continent you live on. ‘Begin from the beginning’. Why not to step on that rocky slab that is regarded to be the ‘farthest easterly point of the North America continent’. Cape Spear is a Canadian National Historic Site too.
Perhaps, it is not a coincidence the ‘farthest points’ are eventually becoming ‘connecting points’. This is all literally true with regard to Signal Hill.
When we moved to Canada, we went straight in to Calgary, and a first place we rented here was not too far from the area called Signal Hill. I didn’t know then that ‘Signal Hill’ would mean a little bit more than ‘just the name’, and it is in fact reflecting not only on ’something specifically local’, but might have links to the all-nation history.
Almost two years later I had my first opportunity to climb up the ‘real’ Signal Hill. Later I did this a few more times. Most recent one was just a few days ago.
It is an excellent walk. Especially if you are lucky enough with the weather. I was extremely lucky, on September 2. (you never rely on the Newfoundland weather, though)
As I climbed up, I was taking images of this tower on a top of the Signal Hill
Done! On the top. And as you know, it is another National Historic site of Canada, - in 1901 the “Signal Hill was the reception point of the first transatlantic wireless signal by Guglielmo Marconi”.
Inside the tower there’s an information plate
A look back down the Hill..
..and around
The lighthouse on the opposite tip of the ‘bottle neck’ passage into the harbour looks pretty close as you see it, but if you try and sport a walk over there, you’ll need to go around the harbour, and it’ll take you a couple of good hours to get there.
And from here it is relatively close to another place
Signal Hill is a truly vantage point..
(to be continued..)
September 7th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
One of my favourite places
How long do you usually have on a Torbay overnight?
September 7th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Hey, Shawn,
you’ll find it out when you join us
Oh, this one was good - we came at 1 o’clock, and stayed until the next morning. Yeah, ‘very early morning’, - or, ‘late night’, if you still have your watch on the Calgary time.
There are short ones too - just for a sleep. My very first overnight after I got in WJ was by the way in YYT, for less than 12 hours. Generally speaking, from 12-13 to 18-20 hours. My buddy stuck once for almost three days this spring, - but he had at least a chance to experience a ‘genuinely Newfoundland weather’ - perhaps, they set a record
See you,
C
September 7th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Yeah, the time zone change is more then one would think. The last time we left St John’s to come back to Prince George, we were up at 2330 BC time and didn’t arrive Prince George until 1630 the next day.
September 7th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
Yeah,
and how do you like that ‘half an hour oddity’ existing in their time zone? I never dare to use my brains to do a time conversion while in St. Johns
October 1st, 2007 at 3:49 am
Have been a little behind in my blog reading, and managed to visit tonight.
Really enjoyed all your really great photos of Newfoundland. Must visit this place sometime.
Thanks.