My wife and I visited French's Cove yesterday, or what is left of it anyway.For those of you that is not aware of where it is, French's Cove is Located on a very beautiful walking trail that begins on the extreme end of Water Street in Bay Roberts.Just drive to the end of Water Street.Keep to the right.There is parking available at the beginning of the trail.There is a map of the trail and area on the Town of Bay Roberts website. http://www.bayroberts.com/. When you get to the website click tourism at the top of the page. You will see a link on the following page for the East Shore Heritage walk. So there it is, everything you need to find it. So what a beautiful walk it is. Unfortunately we never had time to complete the entire trail as darkness came quick but what we did see was breathtaking.Beautiful vistas, waves crashing on the beach.There was remnants of life gone by still there. We saw evidence of where houses once stood.There were even root cellars still there.Some rebuilt for heritage reasons, others left as they are. There was this one area that was bordered with a stone wall on two sides. In this area there was evidence of hard work put into a very nice garden. Upon closer inspection I even found a piece of door trim that was used in one of the houses long gone. If you look close enough as it's somewhat buried in the grass, there is a stone walk that takes you right to the top of the hill to the garden. yet more evidence of life gone by. Then farther on there is an old pier and an old wharf. A little farther on still there is Frenches Cove.There are a few root cellars there along with an information sign talking about life that was in Frenches Cove. I found all this very interesting indeed. We walked a little farther up the hill to get a few picture's and we wound up picking a 2L tub of blueberries to boot!! All in all it was a very worthwhile trip.It's only a 1 hour drive from St.John's.I highly recommend it to anyone. A very refreshing way to get out of the city.
