Nain 3
Trip Start
Feb 11, 2008
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Trip End
Mar 24, 2008
Nain,
Newfoundland,
Canada
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
On Monday we went back up to the pond (5th or 6th) to try some ice fishing. We drilled 3 holes in the almost 6' deep ice and spent a short time jiggling a lure up & down but the fish had a win that day and we resorted to weiners and hot chocolate again. TC & I did a bit of a run around town to take some photos when we got home as the weather had turned calm & sunny again. It's quite amusing standing at the bottom of the dock looking at nothing but ice for miles
Sid in his Igloo
.'Twas a wee bit cold but we managed to go to the cabin on Tuesday last week. We left in convoy of 5 ski-doo's, 9 people and Sue's dog with 2 commaticks #sp! (boxes that are towed behind like a trailer) for a 1 hr 20 min ride across exposed stretches of sea ice, through little woods and along frozen rivers/creeks. We stopped at Sid, Is & KP's little cabin at the head of an inlet with nothing but hills, snow & ice in sight. Sid stopped a few times for me to take photos and he showed me his favourite spot in the woods on the trail. Then within just 500m of the cabin, his ski-doo decided to cut out and wouldn't restart. It was a bit too cold to spend long trying to figure out the problem so Ray towed it to the cabin where we warmed up with a fire and some lunch. Most of us then went on to Ray & Sue's cabin at Black Island where there are about 8 other cabins so almost a small community. The wind had sprung up here & it was bitterly cold so we headed back to the other cabin to pick up Sid & his ski-doo and tackle the long journey back to Nain. A couple of times the wind pushed the commaticks around and they tipped over spilling their contents out on the ice. We're glad we weren't in there!
Got back to Nain and got busy packing. Is and Sid cooked a superb farewell tea for us all and it was sad to know we would soon be gone from this cold but magical place.
TC & Sid with the mini igloo
Wednesday morning came all too quickly & we were soon off to the airport with our ski-doo convoy. The airport of course is just a big shed and yet it is a really busy place with sometimes 10 planes a day in & out. A lot of them are contract flights for the mine but also the mail run and passenger planes.We said our goodbyes to Kendra in the morning before school & everyone else at the airport before boarding the little Twin Otter 18 seater where the icy wind comes in the doors for the 1 hr 40 min flight to Goose Bay.
There we changed to an Air Canada flight to Halifax where we changed and went on to Montreal. Thought the time was getting a bit too short to make the flight to New York but due to maintenance issues with the plane that had to be signed off, we ended up sitting around for quite a while.
Back to the USA ·.
We finally got in to New York La Guardia airport at 9.30pm and made our way to the Edison Hotel right off Times Square. What a fantastic vibrant and busy place!
Lights, neon signs, masses of people· constant activity noise.
