The 6th Annual Iceberg Festival was held from June 6th-15th from Port au Choix to L’Anse aux Meadows to Conche to St. Anthony and many points in between. This is truly a regional festival that celebrates the beauty of the iceberg.
The official opening brought out a crowd, including the Knudsen’s Newfoundland dogs “Neives” and “Sebastian”, Vikings, Painters, Ice Sculptors, Cooks and Performers.
The opening offering something for everyone, from the exclusive “Iceberg” donut (found only at St. Anthony Tim Hortons location), to St. Anthony Seafoods crab. Calvin, Adam and Brandon performed traditional Newfoundland songs, including Calvin Blake’s iceberg song he wrote for the festival. They even had visitors from Kentucky play the “ugly stick”. Many children got their faces painted and also took a quick lesson in iceberg rock painting from George Bussey.
The highlight of the evening was Randy Cull’s ice sculpture, which the ice was collected by St. Carol’ own Richard’s family, stars of the TV show “The Iceberg Hunters”. The image is depicted below with Iceberg Festival Chairperson, Lavinia Crisby.
The Iceberg Festival brought the Wonderbolt Circus for three events, which saw more than 1,000 in attend. Additionally, there was boat tours, ATV iceberg hunting, wine tasting, Iceberg Hunter premiere night, Iceberg Jubilee, Newfoundland Night, Kitchen Parties with Mummers, Iceberg glass art marking, Dark Tickle tours, zodiac tours, French tours, scavenger hunts, kids games and much more.
I encourage you to plan your holidays on the Great Northern Peninsula around the “Iceberg Festival”, it happens every year in early June and does not disappoint. Visit http://theicebergfestival.ca/. A big thank you to all the businesses and organizations that got involved to make this regional festival truly a success. Special recognition must go to the volunteer committee members for taking on a big task, that delivered dynamic results for a stronger Great Northern Peninsula. We have so much to offer those who want to experience the beauty of this place.
Live Rural NL –
Christopher Mitchelmore, MHA The Straits-White Bay North
This is awesome, thank you!
You are welcome! Thanks for your involvement with others to make it all possible
One of the pictures of you and the dog brought back to me fond memories of Sam, our Newfoundland, whom we owned when I was growing up many years ago. We were on the Avalon Peninsula for 12 days last August. I wish I could visit the Great Northern Peninsula to meet the people and to see the icebergs, but I’m afraid I’ll be unable to return to your beautiful province because I am quite elderly.
Hi Richard, thank you for reading my posts and your interest in wanting to visit the Great Northern Peninsula. I wish you good health and all the very best.