Day 10: West Brook Pond and the Wizard of Oz

One of the language quirks in Newfoundland is that they refer to massive expansive lakes as "ponds".  This one is West Brook Pond, which you reach after a 3 km walk to the boat station.

Some facts:
It is surrounded by steep rock walls 600 m (2,000 ft) high, Having been carved from the surrounding plateau by glaciers. After the glaciers melted, the land rebounded and the fjord was cut off from the sea. Salty water was eventually flushed from the fjord leaving it fresh. The catchment area is composed of igneous rock with relatively thin soil, so the waters feeding Western Brook Pond are low in nutrients and the lake is classified as ultraoligotrophic.  It is fed by Stag Brook at the extreme eastern end of the lake and by numerous waterfalls cascading from the plateau above.  One of these, Pissing Mare Falls at 350 m (1,150 ft), is one of the highest in eastern North America.

It is very impressive and one piece of rock is called the Tin Man - blip 4 because of the resemblance to the Wizard of Oz character