The Coast

After being stuck in Blanc Sablon one night because of fog, we were concerned the next morning, when we were delayed again because of fog. The lady at the Air Labrador desk told us that the rest of the Coast was clear, and that we should be able to take off, once the pilots gave the O.K. Everyone traveling with us told us that it was normal for Blanc Sablon to be foggy early in the morning (they actually said that it was always foggy in Blanc Sablon), and that it would probably clear up.

After about one hour, the fog started to clear, and we were able to take off from Blanc Sablon. As we flew up the coast, the weather kept improving, and it was a beautiful sunny day when we landed in La Tabatiere. The kids were extremely happy to see Grandma and Granpa, and we were also relieved to be starting our planned vacation. We drove directly to our house that we purchased in Mutton Bay on our last vacation, which my wife had not actually seen it yet. There had been numerous renovations done on it over the spring, and summer, and we were also looking forward to seeing how everything looked. As we drove down the hill into the village of Mutton Bay, and I saw how pretty the village looks in the summer, I was really glad that I had a house of my own to stay at in the village. As we pulled up to the house, the house was now white, instead of the original brown colour, and I was hoping that the rest of the renovations would be as nice.

The inside of the the house, was also much nicer with all of the touch ups, and my parents had added numerous touches, such as a clock, and little trinkets, which made it feel much more like a home. The master bedroom had also been painted a brighter yellow, and the other bedrooms had been painted lighter colours too. Overall, we were very happy with our new cottage. The one problem that we had was with the water in the house. There was plenty of it, but it was reddish, and smelled pretty bad. The water supply for the house actually comes from a small marsh in the back of the house, and I think that the smell is from all of the peat moss in the marsh. We found out later that the trick to fix this, is to add a bit of Bleech to the water in the storage tank to remove the smell. Of course you will not be able to drink the water after this, which we were not planning to do anyway, but it was fine for the toilets, and washing dishes (this is a cottage after all). My parents had also brought plenty of bottles of drinking water too, so we would not be short of water.

The kids spent the rest of the afternoon playing on the rocks in the back of the house, and also picking bakeapples in the front yard. I spent a little more time working on the water situation, and tried a different storage tank, to see if the water smelled any better. It seemed to have a slight smell coming directly out of the well too. It seemed to get better if we let the water run longer, but I just decided that my vacation was too short to spend time worrying about the smell of the water, when we were not going to be drinking it anyway.

We spent the rest to of the day exploring the hills around the house, and then we went to my parents for a nice meal of cod fish, which one of the fishermen living near our house gave to us.

The property came with two sheds, and one of them had about three cords of firewood in it. After dinner, I opened all of the windows, and then lit a fire in wood stove, and watched the sun set over Baie Du Bateau. SInce we did not have a radio, or T.V., I drank a beer, and read a book, and went to bed early.

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