Labrador

We received a message on the satelite telling us to load in Toronto with a load going to Labrador, cool we haven't been there yet. Hmmm then we looked at the map, do we want to go there!!

It wasn't the best load we'd ever had and we had approx 600kms to Labrodor City and a further 550kms to Goose bay on an unpaved road, but we would be back for Jasmin her boyfriend, Ryan and Leon arriving.....lets go.

We headed through Quebec, crossing over an estuary at St Catherines to Baie Commeau turn left and head to Mannic 5. DO NOT LEAVE THIS ROAD UNTIL YOU REACH Labrodor City, lol. Yep 1 road in and the same road out.

Mannic 5 is a huge hydro plant, there are 5 of these along the Manicougan River, the biggest being Mannic 5 it is so deep you could stand the Eiffel Tower in it. This is when the unpaved road starts, we were told the people from Labrador prefer to drive it when its thick with snow, :0 the dust was unbelievable but as our air conditioning decided to stop working we had to have the windows open. We were covered in dust and there was nowhere to clean up till we got back to Halifax. We also realised we had a flat tyre, we were in the middle of nowhere without a phone signal! When we arrived at Goose Bay we phoned the office, for them to arrange for somebody to come out to us and repair it, haha, we were told there wasn`t anybody available to repair it for 2 days and to continue with the delivery then continue back to Labrador City..... lmao, this was approx 1100 kms on a flat tyre.

We arrived at Sheshatshit (prounounced like...SHESH-A-SHEE) I just wish somebody had told us how to pronounce it before we arrived :) the first nation people or as Rod kindly calls them Eskimos, thought we were hilarious.

Delivered to a new school and headed back to Labrador City to repair the tyre and pick up our return load back to Nova Scotia. Now this should really have been straight forward you would have guessed but about 200 kms into the return journey we decided to get out of the truck and take a few pictures for the blog, Rod went to the back of the truck and heard a strange noise..... yep, he had picked up a broken bolt along the way and now had 2 tyres with problems.... we arrived at Labrador City around 19.00 on Sunday evening with 2 flat tyres, discovering that just around the corner literally from where we had our collection was a 24 hour tyre outlet, stressed out we managed to repair the tyres and get to bed :D

We also saw a Moose with her babies which was really cool, we don't see too many Moose because we don't drive a lot at night I suppose that will change during winter with the shorter days.