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2007Atlantic Canada Ride |
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2007Atlantic Canada Ride |
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Labrador
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The bike swallowing ferry
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But wait, it gets better... |
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We have returned |
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The view from our motel room
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After a foggy boat ride and an even foggier ride from the terminal to
our motel in L'anse-au-Claire, the sun broke free
L'anse Amour lighthouse
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Icebergs on the beach
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It may be just a bit of ice, but it's probably thousands of years old. Can holding an old piece of ice can be a thrill ? You bet it can be. That thing would make one hell of a Slurpee.
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Itty, bitty bergy bits
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The road to L'anse Amour
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L'anse Amour light - view from below
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... and the view from above
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We don't need no stinkin' iceberg boat tours now do we ???
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Part of this trip's quest was to visit the site of the demise of the HMS Raleigh which ran aground in 1922. Apparently they were trying to avoid the only berg in the Labrador Straits that day and promptly ran aground. The boat sat their until 1924 when the Brits got a bit tired of the constant reminder of the event. They went in with another ship and blew her to bits. Seems they were better at shooting than navigating.
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Some of the remains of the Raleigh washed ashore by storms.
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Occasionally, just occasionally, we have a day that we know we will remember forever. This was one of those days. These rare days, when they happen, always remind me of R.L.Stevenson's "Requiem" Under the wide and starry sky,Dig the grave and let me lie, Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me:
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Just up the road from our motel
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Gawd only knows how the captain got back across without hitting something.
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