LABRADOR – A TRIP OUT FOR SUPPLIES BEFORE THE HURRICANE.
Day 133 – Last night it was pretty windy; the ladder which is hooked up to the back of the RV was clanking. The wind should decrease later today. That’ll be nice. It was beautiful out this morning with sunny skies and some billowy clouds, a deep blue sea with rolling waves, and again, the wind.
We are low on propane for the RV, we need gas in the Honda, we’re getting low on basic supplies like milk (almond), paper towels, and Vodka for our Partridgeberry syrup, LOL, and completely out of tomatoes, lettuce, onions, and blueberries. On top of that, we ran out of water this morning and we need to dump tanks; they are full. We drove to the water & dump station, and thanks to Wi-Fi, got a signal for weather updates. As of 9 a.m., Hurricane Dorian was going to visit our land in Maine tonight/tomorrow morning, and Atlantic Canada had been put on alert for the storm to hit them over the weekend. They are fairly worried about Nova Scotia, particularly Halifax (mid-eastern coast of NS) & then southwestern NF. If that continues to be the track of the storm and it continues up the Strait of Belle Isle, we will get a visit. Time will tell.
After dumping some tanks and filling others, we went south on the 510, stopping to take pictures on the way. We found that there isn’t a decent grocery store between our campground and the Quebec border, there is only one place you can get propane, there are 3 gas stations, and the one liquor store was very small. We did, however, get everything we needed, maybe not the best quality of produce, but adequate nonetheless. We had wanted to stop at the Visitor & Interpretive Center in L’Anse au Clair because they supposedly have plenty of historical items on display. They were closed. We visited the town of L’Anse Amour. We drove to the L’Anse Amour Burial Site. This mound of rocks is the earliest known funeral monument in the New World and marks the burial place of an indian child who died about 7,500 years ago. Continuing on the well-maintained dirt road, we arrived at the Point Amour Lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse in Atlantic Canada. Everywhere we went, the scenery was beautiful. The Honda, which had gotten cleaned up a bit from the heavy rains, was covered in dust & dirt again from the dirt highway construction work.
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We got a look at a couple of small campgrounds not far from the ferry terminal. We had originally intended to leave this campground before this weekend and move to the campground at the end of the road in Quebec, south of the ferry terminal in L’Anse au Clair. But the storms have kept us at Pinware longer than expected. Once we can safely leave here, we’ll go to Quebec, explore the area between the southern end of the road to the ferry terminal, then spend the final night near the ferry terminal at one of the two parks we saw today. It’s a good thing it isn’t winter – there were signs at one of the parks about snow machines were not allowed in the avalanche zone during the winter & spring months. Avalanches? Eeeek!
Back at the RV, chores completed and supplies put up, we were happy that the wind was blowing hard enough still to alleviate the bugs – for now. Tomorrow is supposed to be nice during the day & we want to visit the Red Bay museums, north of here. First thing we’ll be checking the newest forecasts for Dorian & chatting with the park ranger about whether we should move our RV inland for the storm. Never a dull moment.