We are back on board our home in Port Hardy and I feel like we haven't stopped since we arrived. I'll need to backtrack a bit since we still had 6 days at the OP before we flew out so lets start there.
Friday morning I get a email letting me know that 2 guys will be coming in tomorrow for 3-4 days to do some work. Always love to have company but I am right in the middle of getting the lodge ready for the new crew and really hadn't planned for this. Oh well, the beds are already made up and there are lots of goodies in the freezer. For some reason I checked my emails later that night, ohhhh around 9 o'clock and guess what......Tim and Mike were on their way by boat. The weather looked good so they decided to head out tonight and should be arriving by 10:30 or so. So much for popping open that bottle of champagne to toast our last evening at the OP.
10:40 pm... Welcome to the Outpost!
After a day of taking up panels and pumping out floater tanks it was decided that the heli pad had to be beached to do repairs.
Tim and Mike were literally burning the midnight oil. Having to work according to the tide you can find yourself up at all hours, morning or night.
Mike's efforts at scraping the tanks of the heli pad paid off.....in scallops!!!!
A little pre-dinner appie.
How can you go wrong with scallops and bacon?
Hey Mike, how are they?
Monday afternoon saw another plane and another worker. Robert, the welder, got off the plane said a quick hello, dropped his bag on the dock and got to work. He did make it up to the lodge for a late dinner than off to bed. “Early start tomorrow”, was all he said.
True to his word he was out welding away at 5:30 am. What is really surprising is that I was up at this time to take his picture.
Mid afternoon the heli pad was pushed, pulled and towed back into place.
Time to get wet. All the mooring chains now have to be reattached.
Yep, another plane. The OP is just a hive of activity these days.
The first of the summer crew has landed. Roberta is one of the OP chefs.
They come by air, they come by sea.
This is Ken, our boss and manager of the Outpost, he's already started a daily blog. A “must” to check out. http://www.westcoastfishingclub.com/
That's Tim in the corner, popping up to say “hello”.
Nice to see so many around the table. This dinner is the last that I will be cooking for some time. Just show me the menu!!!!
I take my hat off to these ladies. The totes were heavy but they found a way to get them back to where they should be.
One last trip down the boardwalk.
As a fabulous send off Ken had the helicopter come in for us and than back to the Clubhouse at Langara for the night.
Well folks this is it, time to head out. We only had 24 hours with some of the new crew but what a great bunch. I'm already looking forward to talking with them at the end of the season to hear of their experiences.
This is the only way to fly!
So we're on our way back into the real world. There are many more pictures and thoughts but I'll save that for the next time.
Aboard “Canadian Freight”
Heather & Mike
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