More hiking, and scenery, on Fogo Island

Lions Den hiking trail, just outside Fogo, is a beautifully well-maintained trail that offers spectacular views and also takes you by locations where old fishing villages used to be.

Pilley’s Pond

Lock’s Cove

Looking over to the community of Fogo

Eastern Tickle.  Back in the early 1800’s there were four small communities near Fogo, the largest of which was located here at Eastern Tickle.  At its largest, it had a known population of 107 people, and it even had a school.  The little village was finally abandoned in the early 1950’s when the last structure was floated out of its harbour and ‘shifted’ to Joe Batt’s Arm.

Shoal Tickle was the smallest of the four communities outside of Fogo.  It was also the first of the four ‘trail settlements’ to have been abandoned - this having taken place in the early 1930’s.

Lion’s Den was the furthest satellite community from Fogo.  The 1836 census showed 22 people in four families - almost a century later, in 1935, there were 35 people within nine families.  The last house floated out of Lion’s Den is now in Fogo.

Leyte’s Brook

Looking down to the community of Fogo and Fogo Bay.

After hiking in the morning I drove around and explored a little more of Fogo Island.

The community of Deep Bay.

Stag Harbour

Oh look - it’s my friend, the ferry again!

Loaded up and leaving Fogo Island.  My rental car is the little grey one on the left - last one loaded because I’m going to be the first one off…on Change Islands.

No one keeping me company on the upper deck today either.