The visitor centres at the famous Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve and Mistaken Point are now open for the summer tourist season.
Cape St. Mary’s is one of the world’s most accessible seabird colonies, with visitors able to walk right up to the cliffside just feet from a major gannet nesting site.
(File photo of Mistaken Point.)
Mistaken Point, meanwhile, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the southern Avalon, where visitors can view fossils of some of the earliest known complex life forms that represent the transition from plants to animals.
Cape St. Mary’s recorded more than 14,000 visitors last year, while staff guided 238 hikes to Mistaken Point involving more than 2,500 participants.
