Greetings stackers. My weekly hiking post had to pause for 2 weeks because I went on a 2 week trip with my family to see Eastern Canada. We flew from Vancouver to Toronto and drove from Toronto all the way to St. John's, NL, the easternmost city of Canada. We travelled many kilometers and saw a lot of beautiful buildings, cities, and natural views. We also went on a hike in Newfoundland, while driving to St. John's, and I would like to share this one with you guys.

We hiked the Chance Cove Coastal Trail located near the small town of Chance Cove, Newfoundland. The trail is a loop trail that is about 3.5km long with almost 100m elevation gain. From the parking lot, there was a clear sign pointing to a set of stairs which mark the start of the hiking trail. Our family decided not to take the stairs and went along Chance Cove Pond instead. Eventually, we reached Chance Cove Beach where the wind was very strong but we've also reached the waters of the Atlantic. We continued up a set of stairs by the beach to continue on the trail and started to enter the coastal forest. The trail was clean and well maintained with numerous outlooks and viewpoints along the way. However, one needs to be very careful when walking into the outlooks, because they are all steep cliffs that will cause serious injury or death if one falls off.

Trailhead next to parking lot. We did not take the stairs and went by the pond instead.

Trail next to Chance Cove Pond heading out to Chance Cove Beach.

Chance Cove Beach. Very windy.

Set of stairs leading to the hiking trail and numerous outlooks and viewpoints.

Trail is clean and well maintained.

View of Chance Cove Beach and the small town of Chance Cove from an outlook.

Steep cliff at one of the outlooks.

Eventually we reached a grassy area. A sign indicated that it was called the Jacob W Smiths Meadow and that we should watch for whales. The meadows was extremely windy because there were no trees around to block out the wind. I felt that at times, I might get blown away by the the wind. I did, however, get blown away by the unobstructed views of the surrounding islands, rocks, cove and the Atlantic. Going back on trail in the forest past the meadow, we reached a set of stairs that allowed us to walk down to the beach and offered a close view of Chance Island. The cove is much less windy as the surrounding rocks blocked out most of the wind. We enjoyed spending some time skipping rocks on the relative calmer waters at the cove.

Sign at Jacob W Smiths Meadows. We did not see any whales.

Green grass of the meadows. This place is extremely windy.

View of Chance Cove Island with the Atlantic in the background.

Looking into the Atlantic.

More views of the little town.

We went down a set of stairs to reach the beach and started skipping rocks on the Atlantic waters.

Getting back on trail, we continued our way and saw Big Cove and Patrick's Cove. There was a rope that helped hikers go up and down a steep face, allowing them to reach Big Cove and Patrick's Cove. We were short on time and needed to reach our next destination, so we decided not to go down, while only observed the views from above. Continuing past the two coves, we completed the loop trail and went back down the stairs to reach Chance Cove Beach. We followed the same trail next to Chance Cove Pond back to the parking lot.

Patrick's Cove.

Rope that help hikers get down the steep face to reach Patrick's Cove and Big Cove.

Big Cove.

Heading back to the parking lot along the trail next to Chance Cove Pond. We completely skipped the beginning portion of the trail that had the most elevation gain.

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