FROM HERE TO THERE...

Stayed the night in Gander last night, when I was checking into the hotel there was a brief time where I couldn't remember which city I was in, I definitely think I'm traveling too much. My hotel was Sinbad's.

It was a nice sunny morning, but very windy. This is the outside of the Gander Airport.

Walking out to the airplane that would take us to St. John's. This the Beechcraft 1900 Turboprop.

Some of the clouds after taking off from Gander.

The turbulence on the descent into St. John's was interesting, since I could see out the front of the plane, I could see the runway in clear view as we approached. Then at the last second a cross wind caught the plane and the runway disappeared, but before we touched down they straightened it out and we landed without incident.

There was a bit of sun this morning trying to peek through the overcast skies. That combined with the fog in the bay made for some nice scenery.

It looks like there is fall colours on the trees, but it is only the sun which makes it look like that.

The only hotel in town this time of year. At breakfast this morning, Danny Williams was sitting a couple of tables over from us. Danny Williams is the Premier of Newfoundland. No one really knew why he was in town, he came in last night and left first thing in the morning.

After arriving in town we found out there had been a tragedy at the hydro plant. The hydro plant is the main employer in town, it is where our site is located.

Apparently over the weekend there was a double-shooting, which they were calling a murder-suicide. It was a couple who lived together and who both worked at the generating station. In a town of 500 hundred people, everyone know each other, so it wasn't the best of circumstances to be there. The crew that does our sample changes are the Security people at the plant. In the end we were unable to train most of them due to the funeral.

Starting the air tower installation. The high gravel outcrops in the rear are the sides of the dam.

Trying to square up the tower.

Air tower installation complete, for the most part.

A view of the dam from up top.

Looking back down towards the town.

Out in Newfoundland this week for an instrument installation. It was a flight into St John's and then a puddle jumper over to Gander. I had a good view out the front window when we were coming in for the landing.

In case you ever wondered what the dashboard of a Beechcraft 1900D Turboprop looked like.

From there it is about a 2 hour drive to Head of Bay d'Espoir.