Category Archives: Labrador

I have to admit, this is the most boring day we’ve had since leaving home. We are only about an hour from the ferry back to NFLD and there is little to do in the area. After waking to a cloudy misty day, we had breakfast and then headed towards Blanc Sablon and the 3:30Continue reading “Day 39: Pinware PP to St. Barbe via the Blanc Sablon/St. Barbe Ferry”

Today is a ‘rest day’. We are just biding time until we can get the ferry tomorrow. However we have household chores to do anyway, and this is as good a place as any to do them. We don’t have services here, i.e., no electrical, so baking is out of the question. I can doContinue reading “Day 38: Pinware Privincial Park”

It was cool overnight. Great for sleeping. As per usual, we woke up to a superb view. This is going to come to a screeching halt at some point. I checked the news this morning about the situation along the Labrador Hwy between Labrador City and Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Had we decided to set offContinue reading “Day 37: Long Point Park to Pinware Provincial Park via Red Bay”

Ferry reservations done late last night, we were finally able to get into bed. We were boondocking, ie squatting, at the local beach park that was posted no camping. No one bothered us though. In 3 years, this is the first time we have boondocked. We aren’t much into Walmart parking lots. I think thereContinue reading “Day 36: Happy Valley-Goose Bay to New Hope-Port Simpson”

Today we make the trek to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Lots of driving and no gas stations. Much of the history in this part of Canada has related to the early indigenous peoples and the arrival of the Europeans seeking its natural resources. Settlements were coastal and involved livelihoods such as fishing, whaling, logging and someContinue reading “Day 35: Southern Labrador to Goose Bay-Happy Valley”

Cloudy this morning and cool but we are on a ferry anyway. Up and out by 6:30  to sit in line for the ferry. Watching how a ferry is loaded is fascinating. This ferry to Labrador does have some tourists in cars and RVs and even a bus from Halifax but is mainly workers inContinue reading “Day 34: St. Barbe, Nfld to Red Bay, Labrador”