Today we did a tour of Cape Random where the mini-series Random Passage was filmed in 2000. We had watched the series at the time and really enjoyed it so decided to buy the DVD and watch it again before we came out here. To have seen the series recently made it that much more interesting to see this set. The series took a year to shoot and was shot at this location except for 1 week in St. John's and three weeks in Ireland. The village, or community as it would have been called was built using materials and methods available in the early 1800's. This meant, for example, that no nails were used in it's construction. The series told of how Random Passage came to be populated and the back stories of the individuals who lived there. They even have a little graveyard showing the "graves" of the people who died in the show. (They are not real graves.) It was fascinating and you really get a sense between the show and actually visiting the site of how hard life was back then
