Yes, I was about to go to bed for an early night. I'm in Corner Brook for my last night in Newfoundland - a B&B in a private house at $50 for the night and they even let me use the kitchen to cook my tea from my supplies.
So a cheap night tonight - but it needed to be, because this morning I had a nasty surprise. Casey had a flat tyre. 2000 miles down the worst roads in the world and not a thing, and a puncture on the Trans-Canada Highway. And so off to Canadian Tyres it had to be.
But it wasn't all doom and gloom because they were having a sale of inverters - and I picked up a 75-watt and a 150-watt for just $19.98 for the pair. And then, incredibly, at Wallmart, a 40-watt slow cooker for just $9:99. So off to the dollar store for a pile of tins and so on and I now have all that I need to cook my meals in the car as I drive.
Another good stroke of fortune was that the Air Museum at Gander was open and while the girl in charge knew nothing about the missing artefacts she did know two authors of aviation books who are "friends" of the museum. One of these men worked on the project for the replica flight of Alcock and Brown's Vimy to celebrate the 75th anniversary. So if anyone knows anything about these objects one of these will.
Outside the museum was a fur trapper selling rabbits that he had trapped. I thought that they only did things like that in the Last of the Mohicans but here he was - a genuine 21st Century trapper.
So now it's an early night. There won't be a posting tomorrow as I'm spending the night on this 7-hour crossing to Cape Breton Island where I'll be picking up where I left off from my 2003 voyage. And if I don't blog the night after, it will be either because wherever I will be staying won't have internet access, or else the ferry will have sunk.
And don't laugh about that either. On October 14th 1942 the Caribou, one of the predecessors of the ship I'll be sailing on, was torpedoed by a U boat while crossing over the Gulf of St Lawrence. And the ship I'll be sailing on - it's the first voyage since its rudder and steering gear have been repaired.
So anything can happen - and it probably will, but I've got my moose to keep me warm.
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I think you are probably safe from U-boats :-)
ReplyDeleteWith my luck? I bet there's been a U-boat anchored in the depths of the Gulf of St Lawrence for 70 years lying in wait for me ;-)
ReplyDeleteWell it's not the RN Astute. That ran aground last night off the Isle of Skye. They've refloated it tonight, but there are red faces at the MoD. It's their latest super hunter-killer sub. It couldn't hunt a sardine can by the look of it LOL.
ReplyDeleteIt's not the HMS Raleigh either. That swerved to miss in iceberg in the Belle Isle Strait (the only one in the area) and ran itself so firmly aground that they had to use dynamite to move it - and there are bits of it everywhere all over L'Anse Amour in Ladrador
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