Sacred Earth Tour
NEWFOUNDLAND SACRED EARTH TOUR -
September 14-20, 2010
Sacred Earth Tour begins at Rocky Harbour on Tuesday, September 14th, at 5:00 pm, ending on Monday, September 20th, at noon.
Tour cost of $1333
Includes 6 nights accommodation at Ocean View Motel, Rocky Harbour (www.theoceanview.ca), 6 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 5 dinners, park pass, entry fees and transportation to all sites and boat tours.
NOT INCLUDED: airfare to Newfoundland, airport transfer fees, 2 lunches and 1 dinner off site, personal items, tips and gratuities.
The closest airport is Deer Lake, Newfoundland, approximately 1 hour from Woody Point. Airport transfers can be arranged directly with Shears Bus Service, Rocky Harbour. Tel. 709-458-2315.
Discover and deepen your connection with the Elemental Nature Spirits and the Ancestors of this land. We explore the sacred sites and rugged beauty of Gros Morne National Park and World Heritage Sites on the Northern Pennisula of Newfoundland. We create healing ceremonies at powerful sacred places to restore balance within ourselves and with all of creation. Our rituals and intent open us to receive codes of light that inform who we are becoming, homo luminous, our uncharted destiny.
Our itinerary includes:
- A boat tour of scenic Bonne Bay, of two fjords, South Arm and East Arm, joined by the Tickle. Our first views of Gros Morne Mountain and the Tablelands. We scout for our finned relatives, especially the minke whales and dolphins that frequent the deep waters of this fjord. Bird sightings especially bald eagles are also common.
- A walk on the Tablelands; a slice of ancient ocean floor. The orange-brown rock, called peridotite, is one of the best and most accessible examples of exposed mantle material in the world.
- Explorations of the volcanic rocks of Green Gardens that erupted onto the earth as a continent split apart and an ocean formed more than 600 million years ago.
- Visit to a 200-year old Dorset Paleo-Eskimo site and hold ceremony at a 4000-year–old sacred burial ground used for more than a thousand years by the first inhabitants of the island. Following he Crow Head Trail through the limestone barrens to Point Riche lighthouse at Port aux Choix.
- A boat tour of the Park’s largest lake, Western Brook Pond; the most spectacular of the glacially-carved fjords in the northernmost extent of the Appalachians. You’ll see waterfalls cascading from 2000 feet that often turn to mist before reaching the pond, 1.2 billion year-old cliffs of granite and gneiss and frequent wildlife.
- An opportunity to hike the Park’s highest mountain, Gros Morne, with its artic-alpine habitat, spectacular views of Ten Mile Pond and Long Range Mountains and wildlife such as caribou, black bears, fox and hares.
