By the look of the ice chart we will not be getting the 'beer boat' in this week, or perhaps next week either.
There were large open areas out in the harbor yesterday afternoon, the change in wind may have blocked things up again though.
My reference to the 'beer boat' is a tongue in cheek reference to past years media stories about how the people of the town of Nain were all besotted by booze and were lined up down at the dock waiting for the first boat to arrive. Well that was the implication.
The facts are very different, Nain is no different than any other community in the province when it comes to abuse of substances both legal and illegal IMO.
As far as the first boat, in past years it usually did not have much freight on the first run, chips, ice cream, drinks and the like. There is usually a reason for this, ice conditions some times prevent the boat from making the full north run.
Unusual event:
Today will see a Air Labrador Twin Otter flying up the coast with female first and second offers [at the wheel, just joking] in the cockpit or whatever the aeronautical term is.
Not sure if this is a first but is sure an anomaly.
The women will be flying what is commonly known here as the schedi-vac, once known as the mission plane [after Wilfred Grenfell Mission].
Air Labrador has the contract with Labrador-Grenfell Health to carry out schedi amd medi vacs [medi-vac are emergency flights, schedi-vacs are just regular cases]
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