Jut a few of the visiting ships to St.John's Harbor taken on 17th July.The one with the chopper pad has been a dockside for quite a bit, she is involved in the search for the 'eldorado' of the sub sea bed.
The blue hull is one slick baby. 209 ft of pure luxury, not sure why she was in port. "Turmoil"does not seem an appropriate moniker for such a craft, or maybe it does.
Not sure why the ancient yellow rust bucket was there either, I was told she was being readied for service in Trinidad, the name Caribbean Rose would lead one to believe that. It's previous name of Island Princess may ring a bell with some folk in Labrador.
The orange hull was from Aberdeen, nice little jaunt across the Atlantic for the owner. I have no idea why it has a polar bear over the name 'Aurora magnitica'.
Wally over at has a series of stories of his travels on the boat that services Labrador from Newfoundland. Wally should get out more often, stuff like this has been going on for years on the that run and the North Coast runs. Maybe a conservative island based blogger could do the same run, love to read their views of the trip.
Sure belies the WST Ministers claims of "improvements" to the service since he has taken on the portfolio.
3 comments:
1) The yellow boat is (was) the Northern Princess.
2) Been on the north coast runs manys a time. Trust me, the Ranger is a far more enjoyable and comfortable experience than the Bond.
I figured I had the wrong princess
she seen better days sure. Hope we fair better with any ships coming down the pike.
Inconveniences aside, we always enjpy the trips on the North Coast, and I was just using you as a whipping boy.
She's now on her third name; originally she was the Sieurs D'Amours, on the Matane-Baie Comeau run. A lot of the fixtures used to still have that name on them when she was on the Straits run.
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