One kilometer East of Cape Ray you enter The Big Pond area and the beginning of the Wreckhouse area. At that point you may notice a natural occuring phenomenon called the Wave forest on the side of a mountain. A wave forest occurs when alternating strips of live and dead trees extend across some of the higher forested ridges and mountainside. If you take the time to notice you can see why the term "wave" is used. In front of each dead wave of trees you will find fir trees and the scatter spruce tree. When the mature trees die off at the front of the wave the light starved balsam fir seedlings finally start to grow and become the next mature trees and continuing the cycle. It occurs in this area because of the Wreckhouse winds that can gust as high as 200 kilometers per hour.The wave of each new forest moves no more then 100 yards every half century.
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drove pass it quite a few times on the way home to gander.never noticed it before.will be stopping and photographing it when i return.
Man, do I ever miss driving through the Wreckhouse hahaha and ferry crossings being cancelled because of the winds...the Rock will forever remain a magical place in my heart - I can't to go back!!!! The TableLands....the Table Mountains...Terra Nova and George Street...it was terribly hard to leave
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