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Rocky Harbour offers a variety of places to go and enjoy the local food. For seafood try the Java Jack's Restaurant( no deep frying) or The Treasure Box, a small cheerful cafe with homemade food and lots of trinkets and souvenirs to check out. Or try Fisherman's Inn Restaurant, or Earl's for fresh baked pastries or local moose burgers!

Gros Morne National Park is a a Unesco World Heritage site. Take the time and hike the trails and admire the landscape and the ever-changing eco-systems that litter the park. You can hike the numerous trails, or take a boat tour or kayak/canoe. Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador puts on a summer long theatre festival, or see Trails, Tales and Tunes. You can camp as well, and in winter you can ski or snowshoe thru the park. Endless adventures!

Gros Morne offers one of the world's most unique landscapes and much of it is due to the area known as the Tablelands, where the earth's mantel has been exposed. This has only occurred in very few places in the world! Due to tectonic plate collisions millions of years ago which forced the mantel to the surface. What makes this place so barren (like a desert) is because the mantel is peridotite which lacks the nutrients which allows plants to grow. It is a MUST see if you come to Gros Morne.

Along the coast of Gros Morne and further north as well, offers lots of picturesque nooks and tons of opportunity for the "perfect picture". North of the park you can find The Arches Provincial Parkm where you will see natural archways created by the tide. Or visit Table Point Ecological Reserve, which protects fossils and rocks that document changes to the continental shelf of ancient oceans (http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/env/parks/wer/r_tpe/index.html) There are endless places to see!

Take the opportunity to enjoy the abundant wildlife that the park has to offer. However, remember that this is their home, you are the visitor. Respect it. Of course there is the famous moose in the park however there is other common wildlife there as well such as caribou, black bear, red fox, snowshoe hare and beaver. You can see Harbour seals in St Paul's inlet and whales especially during capelin season in early summer. Bring your camera so you don't miss anything! see link for more wildlife.

North of the park you can visit L'Anse aux Meadows and see the impressive icebergs float by or visit L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic site, the first and only authenticated Norse site in North America. You can visit the replicated longhouses to see what it could have been like when the first Vikings landed or you can go to Norstead, a recreated Viking port. Visit St Anthony and learn about the amazing Wilfred Grenfell! How he improved the lives of the coastal inhabitants & fishermen in NL!