Author: majik756
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Labrador at last!
I was up and out early this morning on the advice of a very wonderful man I met last night. His name is Sam Dempster, and he and his wife, Marjorie, own and operate the B&B I stayed in for the past two nights. Sam told me that I needed to be up early and…
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MOOSE!!!
What a day!! Another day at the ferry terminal in St. Barbe, Newfoundland waiting for ferry updates . . . none of them good so far. As I sit here pounding this out to you, the news is that the ferry will sail from Blan Sablon in Quebec Province at 6:00 PM tonight. Sometime during…
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Another day!
it is now shortly after 4:50 AM and I am wide awake. I tried going back to sleep for another hour, just one more slim, wonderful hour . . . but no luck. The light of dawn has invaded my space and I am fighting to get up and be motivated. I can hear it…
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Gale Force Winds and No Ferry!!
Today was just purely frustrating!! All night, as I laid in bed trying to sleep, all I could hear was the wind blowing outside my room at the Motel. It seems like every building in Newfoundland has vinyl siding, and in high winds it seems to shake and rattle which is not condusive to a…
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Water is water . . .
I am now in St. Barbe, Newfoundland, waiting for tomorrow morning so I can board the ferry for the hour and a half float across the Strait of St. Lawrence to Quebec Province, then a short drive into Labrador. I am almost there!! To atch you up on today, the drive here was, again, uneventful…
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Fox Trot!
Most wildlife photographers will probably tell you that to be a good photographer you should research your subject animal, learn its habits, its food sources, where it likes to hunt, how it lives. Then, once you have asembled, cleaned and tested all of your photo gear, dressed yourself accordingly, checked the weather, packed your food…
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Photo Dump!
It is 7:17 AM and I am oddly parked outside the Canada Post in Bonne Bay. I want to get you caught up on photos over the past few days of Newfoundland as I start my move north again to St. Barbe and the ferry that will take me ultimately to Labrador. The weather has…
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Quick Side Note . . .
Dear Beth, I was wrong! The name is pronounced NEW-FOUND-LAND, not the Americanized and slurred “New-Fund-land”! Sorry . . . Lynn and Mark were right! LOL Takes your licks and move on! Also, Newfoundlanders are not “Newfies” as a Nova Scotian told me. About half of the Newfoundlanders find that term derogatory, hence I will…
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NEW-FOUND-LAND
Good Morning and Happy Birthday to my oldest daughter Casey, This is the start of Day Two for me in beautiful Newfoundland. I am, at present, sitting in my tent attempting to stay warm and dry. It is about 37 degrees outside, which is truthfully not that bad, except there is also a constant drizzle…
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ZzzzMoose
I was dead beat when I arrived at ZzzzMoose, crashed hard for a couple of hours after an almost eight hour drive from Cape Sable Island on the southern end of Nova Scotia. When I woke, the temperature had cooled just a bit, down into the lower 50’s, but now the wind direction had shifted,…
What the Walrus said . . . 