If anyone tells you there is a water shortage concern in Newfoundland, do not be taken in.
We have never seen a place with so much water!
There are rivers (called brooks) as well as real brooks, and streams and rivulets and becks and creeks galore.
There are enormous lakes (called ponds - it seems anything that is not ocean is a "pond" ) and actual ponds and bogs and marsh and lagoons and puddles by the tens of thousands.
The place is awash with waterfalls (called waterfalls), and rapids, and chutes and trickles.
We often stepped on what looked like a perfectly dry path or patch of grass only to hear it squelch underfoot.
And let's not forget this is an Island surrounded by wild Atlantic ocean!
It is no wonder the mosquito and blackfly popular is mammoth - they have all this lovely water to spend time with. But a drought? Never!
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