I was back in Newfoundland this past week to upgrade one of our sites near Head of Bay D’Espoir-Milltown. It is about a 3 hour drive from Gander.

The weather for most of the week was overcast and light rain/mist. We arrived to find out that there would be no power at the site from 7:30am – 4:30pm everyday. The site is located on Newfoundland Labrador Hydro property and they were replacing some of the power lines in the area the site was. When I made the arrangements a few weeks ago to come, they forgot to mention this. They did arrange for us to borrow a generator, but still not ideal. In the end we were without power on Tuesday and Friday, and they cut the power further along on Wed/Thurs. This was the view from my motel room.

The Vancor Motel is the only accommodations in the area. It also has the only restaurant in town.

On Friday, the temperature dropped and the winds picked up, making for a more pleasant day with some blue skies.

There were even patches of sun.

Our site is located next to the dam. We are behind the fenced area and the sign that says “Danger, Keep Out, Access Beyond This Point May Result in Drowning”.

The side of the dam.

I saw this place when we had arrived in Gander, so when we came back we headed there for lunch. Inside there was a sign “Reduced Menu Available”, that didn’t mean the prices were cheaper, it meant there were only a couple of items on the menu available. It was an odd restaurant, it looked like they had converted from a fast food type to a sit down. When we paid, I noticed the date on the licence was Nov 30th, 2012. The place had been open less than a week. A google search indicates this use to be a KFC, while we were there a couple of people had come in looking for KFC. The lady that owns this and 10 other KFC restaurants in Newfoundland decided to not renew her KFC franchises and is converting them all to Oppy’s home cooking restaurants. Will have to see if these catch on.

As you can see in the picture there was snow in Gander, along with winds and ice. My flight was delayed leaving Gander by about 45 minutes, not good when I only had an hour for my connection in St John’s. I walked off the plane in St John’s and walked right on the plane to Halifax-Toronto. This should be it for traveling until the new year.