..the Sea Lift Saga....

Mum and I have had another GREAT day!!! Here we are from the campground in town... in the distance is my house!!! The sun finally came out and shone...but I think the high was around 14C or so!!!!I have been car and house sitting for friends while they are in the south on holidays...in the fall they are moving to Iqaluit...soooo today I drove their car down to the beach to put on the ship! It was so nice having wheels for the last few weeks---Since Pang doesn't have a 'deep-sea harbour'...they ship stays anchored out in the middle of the fjord...and they load the goods...onto this barge..then tug boat it over! (it's quite a FUN process to watch....especially if you've never seen it happen before!) Once it gets to the beach...the front end loaders?(i'll have to check with Samuel *my 3yr old nephew* if that's what they are called?!) take everything OFF and stack it in areas with 'like' things....its a pretty fast and awesomely orchestrated event... with three massive front end loaders..

One of the front end loaders.... on the door it had a label "Anna"... it made me chuckle....and then I realized that the ship is called ANNA....(one of the men working from the ship.. had it on his life jacket!)

...driving the car into the C-Can....(not sure if that's SEA-Can...or See-can or C-can...) LOL ...taking it for a little ride......

...loading it onto the barge... to take to the ship.. which will take it to Montreal...and then back again to Iqaluit!!! :)

...off it goes!!! :)

*until next time--sorry for ALL the posts today!!! YIKES!! i've gone post happy!!!!

a Walk at Low Tide!

Mum and I went for a walk in front of my house... past the 'flag' at the campsite...the sign says: 66'09 degrees North 65'42 degrees West: Pisuktinu Tungavik Territorial Campsite.... pretty nifty now that I know the latitude and longitude for my house!!

Mum opted to sit on this nice rock...and enjoy the view.... (out in front of my house)... while I decided to walk out on the tidal plane at low tide.....I've been wanting to do this for a bit... the main objective was to get CLOSER to the big sea lift ship!

I climbed down these rocks.... Mum decided to wave from the top!!!

..here's Mum at the top of the hill... she's definitely got some 'posing' skills... I wonder where she picked those up from!?

Mum sitting staring off in the distance...today was a pretty foggy day.. the clouds have been hanging low all morning..

Ok.. so onto my adventure..... here's a view of town......

There's a picture sealift ship... you can see the boxes on the barge as it waits to be transported to shore during high tide.... lots of people in town are going to be excited to have their sea lift orders!! (groceries/non-perishables for a year that come up by ship......)

My muddy boots.... so apparently the mud is a bit deep... and almost like quick sand... (i almost lost my boot and had to go digging.... i sunk into it almost up to my knee!!)

My muddy trail...and the sea lift ship in the backgroud....all in all it was a fun adventure for both Mother and Daughter!! :)

Ships....

This morning mum got me out of bed VERY early---at 8:20am.... there was a 'new' ship in the harbour...the one that I need to put the vehicle on to send to Iqaluit via Montreal....so I went down to the beach.. and this is what I saw.....

I get to go back at 4pm........(watching for high tides....) to talk to them once the office is unloaded....! (will probably blog more about this in the future!)