Rob-n-Hild, Eastward Ho!

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Forteau - work day-ish

Hild had a couple of meetings this morning (while Rob was asleep). She has a nice setup with one of her screens from home alongside the PC and the external keyboard nicely placed for her posture - a real office away from office, so to speak. After that we had a couple of errands to run to try and fix a couple of things. To be truthful, the replacements had started last night when we found that the HDMI cable needed for the second screen didn't work anymore. We had jumped in the car and tried to find anywhere still open at 6.30 and found another Valle Handel imitation in the next town west - L'Anse au Clair - which was still open and had an HDMI cable for us. Phew, that was needed for the morning meetings. In L'Anse au Clair we has also seen a HomeHardware (closed at the time), but that reminded us of the car fuse and also the power cord for LL - the cooler. LL works from a 12 Volt cigarette lighter socket and had stopped working a day ago. We checked and it was the actual plug which had fused so we were resigned to not being able to use LL for a while until we could get a new power cable. Hild and ordered one from Home Hardware in Newfoundland, but then the order had been cancelled (by them) so this morning we went to ask in the HomeHardware we had seen last night. This is a very long-winded preamble as to why Rob is seen re-wiring a generic 12 volt plug to the old LL socket in the picture above. Rob, never wanting to pass up a chance to re-wire something (in his words, "I don't need manual dexterity for that - all the bits get twisted together!") just decided to cut the wires and re-join them. It works, but I think Hild is still on the lookout for a genuine replacement. Oh yes, and the tiny fuse for Mary Jane was hard to find - until we got to a Ford service outlet where a very nice young man opened a draw and pulled three out without a second thought.

After that, we needed a walk - even if it was yucky outide. The sleet we had driven through had stopped, but it was still grey and damp. However, the growlers had come up onto the rocks alongside the bay so we went over to see what they felt like. It is a bit weird because we were sort of expecting them to be a bit more fragile to touch, but there are very solid - well - blocks of ice! I guess we were thinking this was just snow or ice that had formed right there, but this bit of an iceberg may have been formed months (or years) ago and drifted down from much farther North, gradually melting and breaking up on the way.

As we walked along the coastal path (following a track used by the early whalers who settled this area in the 1700s) we saw many very pretty shaped chunks of ice beached or on the rocks. Maybe it was the tide or the wind, but once they couldn't float away they were more open to melting in weird ways. We took far to many photos as each one looked more fun than the last and as the skies cleared and the sun came out, it was a lovely walk.

This one looked like a labrador retriever, so Rob had to go and pet a growler in Labrador. Sorry, couldn't resist that one.

The path (or one of them) led us up the cliff and from the top the view was beautiful with blue sky, blue water and white ice. It was a slog, but we even found some chairs to sit in at a parking spot when we finally reached the road. For a day that had started off with rain and sleet, it had turned out very nice indeed!

Coming up: Red Bay

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