How much would you pay to have this view? There are hundreds of people who are paying thousands of dollars to get to Newfoundland and Labrador to catch a glance and grab a photo and taste a sample of these majestic giants that we have floating by our homes! Yes, this is the view we enjoy from our windows, the glances we take along our highways or the stares we soak up in our bays. There are some locals I've heard make the comment that "It's just an iceberg", well that's okay if it doesn't appeal to everyone but I love seeing all of them. This is one photo shoot from home that I took in about fifteen minutes in early June, 2014 to give you an idea of their size, shape and the number of them that are drifting by.
This is a close up of the iceberg in the top right of the first photo, notice the varying colours of aqua greens and navy blues in the water. The colour variety has to do with the microorganisms that are in the ocean, apparently the more plankton that's in the water the greener it will be, very rich nutrient based. The blue however, contains less plankton which would mean that it has less nutrients but it would be as clearer water to go snorkel diving into.
Zooming in a little closer you'll see it has somewhat of a mushroom cap, but you may see something else. That's the fun of viewing them everyone sees a resemblance of something different in every iceberg, each one is so different and unique.
Maybe you see cottage cheese in the one above or a beautiful sculpture? It has a spy hole that you can peer through and see out the other side which makes it very unique.
What a morning I was having here at home, I loved it! The smell of the salty ocean, the sound of the waves splashing and the sight of a glistening sea with all those gigantic, white sculptures is worth thousands of dollars to me! I hope you enjoyed the little sample of seeing some icebergs, hopefully you'll get the chance to view them in person some day.
*The Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism website has an actual iceberg map with markers indicating all active icebergs to be seen along our coastline. It also has some very interesting information on the topic and of course many submitted photographs. Here is the link http://www.icebergfinder.com/
