Freels Cape

Cape Freels marks the northern entrance to Bonavista Bay on Newfoundland's eastern coast, with Cape Island lying just beyond its tip. Beothuk families travelled to this shore in spring and summer for salmon and seabirds' eggs, and traces of their camps survive at the cape. European fishermen and explorers also knew the exposed headland, although they largely avoided the inner waters of Bonavista Bay until the eighteenth century. The surrounding sea offered cod and seals to people living along the coast.