Avalon

The region is shown at
http://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/PlacesToGo/Avalon

Brigus Junction area. Notes.
Source: Murphy, Dan; Jim Price and Kevin Redmond. Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters; Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater, St John’s (1996).
Ed note: Area description only; no specified Route is given (devise your own). Salmonier Line is Rte 90.
Place names: Brigus Junction, Middle Gull Pond and Hawcos Pond.
Title at source: Salmonier Line – Middle Gull Pond – Brigus Junction.

Colinet River. Notes.
Location: South of Ocean Pond settlement.
Source: Murphy, Dan; Jim Price and Kevin Redmond. Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters; Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater, St John’s (1996).
Route description: Series of small lakes; falls below Fourth Pond, some CII runs. Take-out at Colinet (at head of St Mary’s Bay).

Holyrood Pond. Notes.
Location: St Mary’s Bay area.
Source: Murphy, Dan; Jim Price and Kevin Redmond. Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters; Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater, St John’s (1996).
Access: From St Vincent’s on Rte 90.
Revised version: Redmond, Kevin and Dan Murphy. A Guide to Sea Kayaking in Newfoundland and Labrador. Nimbus Publishing, Halifax (2003).

Middle Three Island Pond to Half Moon Pond; return. Notes.
Source: Murphy, Dan; Jim Price and Kevin Redmond. Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters; Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater, St John’s (1996).
Route description (day trip): Middle Three Island Pond (northwest of Torbay), Middle Pond, Moon Pond, Half Moon Pond; return.

Mobile Big Pond and Madison’s Rock.
Source: Kayak Newfoundland and Labrador library.
Author: Peter Armitage.
Route description: Mobile Big Pond (up Mobile River, west and a little north of Mobile) by road, Madison’s Rock and return.
Title at source: Trip to Madisons Rock (Mobile Bog Pond).
http://www.kayakers.nf.ca/sea_kayaking/ ... 0pond.html

Rocky River. Markland area to above Rte 91 (Colinet). Notes.
Source: Murphy, Dan; Jim Price and Kevin Redmond. Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters; Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater, St John’s (1996).
Ed note: Apparently, the Route starts at Markland, proceeds down the river (unnamed at Toporama, “Hodge River” at the source?) and then the Rocky River.
Route description: Markland area (off Rte 81; see Ed note), Rocky River, White Hearts River confluence, Back River confluence; take-out above Rocky River Falls, which is upstream from Rte 91.

Salmonier River. To tidal rapid. Notes.
Location: St Mary’s Bay.
Source: Murphy, Dan; Jim Price and Kevin Redmond. Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters; Choice Canoe and Kayak Routes of Newfoundland and Labrador. Breakwater, St John’s (1996).
Route description (day trip): From southeast of Rte 90 to bridge (also Rte 90) below St Catherine’s.