Boat Tours - Mobile

Mobile is located on the Avalon Peninsula of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, 32 km along Highway 10 south of the Village Mall in St. John's. Mobile is 10 km south of the town of Bay Bulls, between the town of Witless Bay and the community of Tors Cove, on the shores of Mobile Bay, and in the Mobile River valley. Mobile is situated between the boundaries of the Avalon Wilderness Reserve and the offshore seabird sanctuary in the Witless Bay Ecological Reserve. Mobile can be accessed by going south off Highway 13 (the Witless Bay Line) after exiting the Trans Canada Highway.
  Mobile appears on early 17 th century navigation charts (as Mommables) and appears to have been inhabited throughout the 18 th century, although, like other Southern Shore communities, continuous settlement dates from the early 1800's.
  Mobile was a fishing and farming community until Confederation. In 1951, a 9.5 megawatt hydro-electric generating plant was constructed on the Mobile River and since then the community has become less reliant on fishing and farming. Many people now work in St. John's and surrounding areas, including the offshore.