Saturday July 1st - Sun/Cloud - Goose Bay to Nain Bay – Cloud/ShowersWe were ready first thing in the morning with all our gear, supplies and food at the airport. The weather had closed in between here and Nain. We are told this is a constant happening especially in the spring. Waiting on standby to see if the weather lifts in time to make a flight today. I'm not good at waiting.
Finally at 3 pm we were able to leave. The plane is a Caravan (turbo 145 ht?) I have not been in one of these before – it does both water and land. I knew the land would be rugged north of Nain. Nothing had prepared me for how rugged it actually was between Nain and Goose Bay. I certainly understand why communities in this land called Labrador are coastal. My mind can only imagine what will be; as we move even further north where it is supposed to be rugged. There are still a few icebergs and growlers in the straight below. It sure looks cold.
Looking out of the Caravan's window the first thing to catch my eye was all the patches of the snow left on the hills.
I keep telling myself it's July 1st. and wonder IF I have enough warm clothes. We flew just below the clouds, passing through
numerous rain squalls but at least the ceiling hasn't dropped lower. You can see it is clearing way off to the west.
The hills are much higher than what we had just finished working on, quite bare on top, numerous lakes and rivers - the river shown has numerous sand bars. Such a spectacular mosaic - I am having such a wonderful journey; yet at the same time am wondering if I will do good.
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We landed on the gravel airport in Nain 1 hour and 30 minutes after leaving Goose Bay. Didn’t get to see much of this northern Innu community at this time. The tower called for the helicopter to come for us from Nain Bay and shortly there after we were ferried over to Nain Bay camp about a 10 min jump.
Tom will head the Long Liner/Islands program. Mike Regular and Geoff Petite are to be the other crew with us on the Longliner.
All the crews are here except Mike Regular. I’ll go into our short base camp set up excitement tomorrow.
For today I’ll stop here; sharing this wonderful scenery with you all; the country from the plane on the way up - a spectacular 230 plus miles. So exciting.
Next Installment Nain Bay.
Finally at 3 pm we were able to leave. The plane is a Caravan (turbo 145 ht?) I have not been in one of these before – it does both water and land. I knew the land would be rugged north of Nain. Nothing had prepared me for how rugged it actually was between Nain and Goose Bay. I certainly understand why communities in this land called Labrador are coastal. My mind can only imagine what will be; as we move even further north where it is supposed to be rugged. There are still a few icebergs and growlers in the straight below. It sure looks cold.
Looking out of the Caravan's window the first thing to catch my eye was all the patches of the snow left on the hills.
I keep telling myself it's July 1st. and wonder IF I have enough warm clothes. We flew just below the clouds, passing through
numerous rain squalls but at least the ceiling hasn't dropped lower. You can see it is clearing way off to the west.The hills are much higher than what we had just finished working on, quite bare on top, numerous lakes and rivers - the river shown has numerous sand bars. Such a spectacular mosaic - I am having such a wonderful journey; yet at the same time am wondering if I will do good.
We had just made contact with the last remote beacon between us and Nain when I took this shot - in a few moments the tower at Nain will be in touch. Part two of our long summer's adventure in Labrador is about to begin. Hope you'll stick around and come back to read more.
Please keep in mind that if you click on a photo it will reload larger- then use your back arrow to take you back to the blog.
Tom will head the Long Liner/Islands program. Mike Regular and Geoff Petite are to be the other crew with us on the Longliner.
All the crews are here except Mike Regular. I’ll go into our short base camp set up excitement tomorrow.
For today I’ll stop here; sharing this wonderful scenery with you all; the country from the plane on the way up - a spectacular 230 plus miles. So exciting.
Next Installment Nain Bay.
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