Things You Should Know About Newfoundland, Part 2

[ChromAzonyx108]

Here's the link to the first part:

https://www.girlsaskguys.com/social-relationships/a25158-things-you-should-know-about-newfoundland

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9. Wildlife

It's not unusual to see a moose crossing the highway. Unfortunately, this leads to sometimes fatal moose-vehicle collisions.

It’s also fairly common to see rabbits, eagles, and squirrels; although the squirrels in Ontario are about 5 times bigger than ours (what are you feeding them?).

Other animals you may see include seals, lynx (rarely, I’ve never seen one here but they are around), turr, gannets, owls (uncommon, as they’re usually out at night but I happened to see one late in the evening – it landed near my house), beavers, bats, foxes, Newfoundland pine marten (rare as they are endangered), whales, and minks.

A seal underwater:

A moose crossing the road:

10. Tourism plays a big role in our province.

Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve

If it's not foggy, you can see a lot of gannets here as well as various other seabirds, sheep, and humpback whales.

Gros Morne National Park

Salmonier Nature Park

L’Anse Aux Meadows

I haven't been here before. That looks like a hobbit's home.

Marble Mountain Ski Resort

They also have zip lines and a cool obstacle course here.

George Street: which has the most pubs per square foot of any street in North America.

11. Fishing

Fishing is a big part of our culture. Two main ones are cod (some people like to eat their tongues too) and caplin. Let me tell you what, when the caplin roll in you could go to a beach and scoop them up in a bucket. We also have trout, mackerel, crabs, lobsters, and flounder. We have scalpins but I don’t think they’re edible, and we have rose fish which are interesting creatures because if you leave them out of water too long then they’re tongues swell up and then when you put them back in the water they float and can’t swim downwards. It’s funny to watch the seagulls try to pick them up out of the water as rose fish also have thorns on their backs. If God exists, he be trolling with the wildlife.

12. We have our own time zone.

The island of Newfoundland is an hour and a half ahead of Central Canada and a half hour ahead of the rest of Atlantic Canada. Because of this, it will hit milestones of time before (almost) any other part of the continent, a quirk that draws attention to Newfoundland. For example, we are the first to ring in the new year. Note though that most of Labrador observes the Atlantic Time Zone along with the rest of Atlantic Canada.

This also creates an interesting oddity when the switch occurs from daylight savings time to standard time:

"Unlike in Europe, where time changes occur at the same moment across the continent (at 1:00am UTC), time changes in North America occur in each time zone at exactly 2:00am local time.... At 1:59am Newfoundland Daylight Time, it is 1:29am Atlantic Daylight Time in the Maritimes. One minute later, Newfoundland reverts to standard time, and their clocks flip back to 1:00am, but clocks in the Maritimes read 1:30am. This creates a 30-minute window when the Maritimes are a half-hour ahead of Newfoundland, and therefore have the “latest” time in North America. Of course, at 2:00am Atlantic Time, it reverts to standard time and Newfoundland regains its rightful place at the front of the Canadian clock."

13. Sense of humour.

We like to poke fun at ourselves. There are books dedicated to Newfie jokes. Here are a few jokes:

A newfie was having a hard time attracting women at the beach, so he decided to ask his friend the lifeguard for advice.
"It's dem big baggy swimming trunks, my son. Dey're years outta style. Yer best bet is to grab yeself a pair of Speedos--about two sizes too small, and drop a fist-sized potato down inside 'em. I'm telling ye, man.. .ye'll have all de babes ye wants!"
The following weekend, the newfie hit the beach with his new Speedos and his fist-sized potato. Everybody he walked past immediately covered their faces and started gagging.
The newfie went back to the lifeguard and said, "I did what ye said, but it's still not working."
"Lard-Tunderin' Jeezus b'y!" said lifeguard, "the potato goes in the front!"

Did you hear about the Newfie who went ice fishing?
He caught fifty pounds of ice and his wife drowned trying to cook.

Some links to more jokes:

https://allkindsoffunny.weebly.com/newfie-jokes.html

https://newfiejoke.blogspot.ca/2011/10/more-funny-short-newfie-jokes.html

https://www.newfiejokes.net/

14. Some of our communities have funny names.

Cow Head, Turk’s Gut, Leading Tickles, Dildo, Cox’s Cove, Woody Point, Jerry's Nose, Virgin Arm

[redeyemindtricks]

Why would they measure pubs per SQUARE foot of street? That's just stacking the deck in favor (favour, lol) of narrow streets.

Should be pubs per linear foot, yo.

[9mfeo]

Blink and you miss George Street, truthfully.

[Imsmurter1]

I’d like to visit