Record broken.

Well that was a warm one. Nain broke a 75 year old record [28.8] with a high of 30.7. Hopedale and HV-GB also set new record highs.
The high at the house was 31.9 and in the greenhouse 38.
CBC radio and TV made a big issue of the records, 'On the Go' even led off with the 'hot hot story', a live inteview with a long term resident of Nain.

It is still 23 inside the house this morning, but temps are supposed to drop today. With the drop the flies will be back, actually they are, kids walking up the road just now are doing the usual Labrador wave with a vengeance.

Our dog does not do heat well either, very lethargic, one time in the afternoon she did not do the usual song and dance that she come with us when we were going out the door.

There were lots more tourists on the Northern Ranger last trip. Some disembarked, others stayed on for the return run. A motorbike club seemed to make up the bulk of the return crowd.

Wednesday afternoon we were walking around town with a couple from Tel-Aviv. Another couple greeted us, seems they met up with the Tel-Aviv couple on the Ranger. They exchanged pleasantries and then the man came up to me, put out his hand out and said “you’re Nain Bay”.
I was a bit taken aback at first but I put my hand out for the shake. The gentleman continued on with “You’re Nain Bay; I read your blog all the time, thank you very much for doing that”.
While shaking his hand I could not but feel a little puzzled, but confirmed that I was indeed Nain Bay and that I was a little humbled that he reads my blog yadda yadda.

He continued on with the superlatives and finished off with, “thank you very much for doing that, especially all the photographs”. He was from Newfoundland, I did not get the town, but I felt happy that he gets joy out of these musings; maybe it even prompted their visit, who knows as we continued on in one direction and they in another.

From talking to many people it is evident that little to no information is readily available to tourists arriving in HV-GB about Nain or getting to the Torngat National Park from here.
The cost of getting to the park is way out of the average person’s budget. That is with out planning ahead, research, logistical planning, coming in a group would be the best way. Or maybe some people are told of the constraint and continue on in any case. Any way people should be told that it is early days for the park and there are many logistical hurdles that have to be overcome yet.
Whatever the case many tourists either do not head this way, or come on the boat and go back on the boat due to the lack of accommodations or lack of dedicated fully informed information booths.

It is also evident that the food on the Ranger is mainly still basic fast [crap] food. Also that at some ports of call they arrive at meal times, the tourists go ashore for a look see, when they get back on board the cafeteria is closed, bad luck mate, next meal is at ?
They are also disappointed that no information is available on board, that there are no post cards or souvenirs [the display cases are there from day’s yore]. All in all it is evident that the government is running the service into the ground to prove that it does not work for their agenda ahead.