Twillingate NL Newfoundland-Labrador Canada
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Frequently Asked Questions
By tender. Ships anchor in the harbour and passengers land at the wharf, in the middle of a fishing village where net sheds sit next to artists' galleries.
Yes, everything is walkable: the shops on the main street, the cafés serving the chowder of the day, and the coastal trails that start right at the last houses.
Yes, the village calls itself the iceberg capital of the world. These cathedrals of ice, 12,000 years old and calved from Greenland's glaciers, ride the Labrador Current down to the channel Newfoundlanders call Iceberg Alley.
From late May to late June, though some giants linger into July. Nothing is guaranteed: the Labrador Current decides what it brings each morning.
Yes, in summer: humpback whales come to feed on capelin in these waters. Several local skippers run two-hour trips combining iceberg approaches with whale watching.
A lighthouse that has watched over Notre Dame Bay since 1876, a few kilometres from the village, perched more than 90 metres above the sea at Crow Head. An interpretation centre occupies the keeper's buildings, and the surrounding cliffs carry on into hiking trails.
From Toulinguet. Breton cod fishermen worked these waters well before the English and named the place after a rocky point near Camaret, in France. English-speaking settlers later anglicized it.
A reconstructed family fishing station about five kilometres from the village: sheds on pilings, dories and a full-size cod trap you can walk into.
Beothuk artifacts, relics of the seal hunt and the press of the old local newspaper, in the former Anglican rectory. It also tells the story of Georgina Stirling, a soprano born here who sang on European stages in the late 19th century under the name Marie Toulinguet.
Seafood chowder and fresh cod in the harbour restaurants, berry wines from the Auk Island Winery including some made with iceberg water, and bakeapple jam, made from the northern berry known elsewhere as cloudberry.
