Hiking around Cape Spear

CAPE SPEAR

Cape Spear: The eastern most point of North America. A strategic point on which a number of bunkers and cannon mounts  were constructed during the 2nd World war to help protect St. John's. The rusted old guns remain to this day.

 Looking towards St. John's from Cape Spear. If you look closely you will see a small square building on top of a hill almost mid picture. That is Cabot Tower on Signal Hill

This is the tip of Cape Spear. The view is East-Northeast.

We are on the boardwalk at the Cape.

When the sun came out it was quite warm but the overall temperature is cold.

View of the lighthouse in the distance.

The "new" lighthouse that was build in 1955

 There is a fair bit of construction going on as they are preparing the site for the 2017 tourist season to make it more visitor friendly.

The 1955 tower is center picture and the original is the building off to the far right.

Winters are hard on everything here and so all these benches and trails are tended to yearly.

Lucy in a bunker under a cannon mount. The room is about 20' X 20'

Nothing between here and Europe but water.

 

Construction of a new viewing platform and stabilizing the old bunker so people can go inside and view it safely.

The 1955 tower which is currently in use. Lucy standing beside the tower gives it some perspective of height.

The 1835 lighthouse. A foghorn was added in 1878. The light was first lit by oil, then acetylene and finally, in 1930, electricity.

The cliff near the lighthouse is a sheer drop to the ocean.

The cliffs below the lighthouse

Getting a look at the road approaching the cape.

How about that! I caught the beam as it passed.

A rather barren landscape

around the cape.

We were very fortunate to not have much wind at the cape this visit. Glad we could make it here again.