Lewisport Drop off and Birthday

Nice little sail through the beautiful Norte Dam bay to the very safe haven of Lewisporte YC/Marina. As always the friendliest most helpful people you will ever meet. It’s Claire’s Birthday and Claire in her normal way wants to keep it simple and cook our own food in the YC. Which was a great success. We meet a french middle age guy who left Bergen Norway on 14th June and had sailed here via Iceland Greenland and Labradore in less than 4 weeks (I think we are slacking) he was single handing a 50 footer. Luckily he picked up a 20 something German girl in Iceland. After speaking with her we realised she was a perfect match for him. She was doing a low carbon trip from Germany to British Columbia. And so far she had only walked skied and sailed she crossed Iceland on touring skis. She is now about to start a walk across Canada which is 5000 km she wont stop in the winter but ski over the mountains.. (we are definitely slacking) she thinks it will take a further 2 years. Bonkers.

The nice lady who runs YC takes us all to the bus stop where Clare will get the 5 hour bus to Deer lake airport and join the first flight home, sad times but we have been very lucky with all the things we have seen.

Next stop service engine top up with water and fuel. Get to the supermarket. You don’t seem to need a car here if you start walking anywhere someone will stop and give you a lift. It was 2miles each way to the super market and we didn’t walk much of it. How did we lose this attitude to helping people.Read more