Ocean Falls

It was Ocean Falls day today.  We were supposed to go tomorrow, but thanks to the handy technology of weather prediction, it was decided to go today.  The rest of the week here is supposed to be wet and gloomy, not ideal for small float planes.

Any way, due to the full moon, Kitty was being a pain in the butt last night, more the usual.  Usually I don't get to upset with her, after all, she is just a kitty.  But last night, it was more then I could handle.  She was scratching at the bed, seemingly louder then every other night.  I used Monkey as a weapon and swatted at her.  I'm not proud of that and it didn't really work to stop her.  Tyler woke up to go to the bathroom, and I was past the point of feeling anything but anger towards that Kitty, so Tyler gave her a swift kick in the bum.  Not to hurt her, but to get the point across that we weren't impressed.  It worked and we managed to sleep semi-soundly the rest of the night.

On to more interesting things, we woke up, showered, ate our respective breakfast cereals.  For me, a bowl of Special K and for Tyler, a bowl of Apple Cinnamon Cheerios.  It appears that that is all we eat for breakfast these days.  We got ready for our day out in Ocean Falls.

We went to the airport with the doctor and got ready to board the plane.  It was a little Beaver and if I called it cute, Tyler would just roll his eyes at me.  I got to sit in the front of the plane with the pilot because it was my first time in a plane where you can see the driver.  It was pretty freaky.  I was half expecting Rosy the pilot to start the propellor by hand, but that didn't happen.  I was also expecting the pilot to be wearing one of those leather hats, with a light brown leather jacket that has that fluffy looking collar on it.  You know what I'm talking about, right?  I'll leave it at that.

We took off smoothy and were flying in a northernly easternly direction, over land and water.  I felt safer flying over the water, because I kept imagining the plane plummeting.  And seeing how it was a float plane, I had confidence that Rosy could land in the water rather then crashing into the side of a mountain.  It was a foolish thought but really, those planes are scary to be in.  I knew nothing would happen, but there was one moment of pure fear.  There was an updraft of air (or something a little more technical) and the plane veered left.  I'm sure my heart stopped for a moment until I realized we weren't going down.

We sailed smoothly and reached Ocean Falls soon after that terrifying moment.  It was a beautiful flight in.  Ocean Falls sits in a long L shaped inlet.  The first part that you see is where the people actually live, all 35 people.  You turn at the elbow of the L and fly into the older part of town, the actual townsite.  It was truly beautiful.

After the plane landed one of the smoothest landing I've ever been a part of, we got out of the plane and stepped onto the dock.  It already looked like the oldest place I've ever been.  You can see the old buildings of a town that use to be a hip happening place.  Tyler and the Doc had to go to work so they started walking to the medical clinic.  I saw 4 cute little seals sitting on the dock, so I spent some time with them, taking a few pictures.  I thought it was a bad idea to get lost in a town I've never been without any way of contacting Tyler, so I soon followed the 2.

The medical clinic is set up in the old court house.  The building also use to be the jail and is now the post office.  I sat around, waiting for Tyler to come explore with me.  It's a little haunting walking around an actual ghost town.  While sitting around waiting, we got to meet some of the patients.  You have to be quite the character to live in a place like that.  They were fun to talk with and we got invited to eat lunch with them after we walked around the town a bit.

This town is just full of old abandoned buildings.  So many old houses that looked really cool, falling apart, growing moss on the roof.  There was also a tennis court with a sign that read, "Tennis club members only..."  The court was overgrown with grass and weeds and there wasn't a net.

And then we went for lunch.  It was very interesting.  We were spoiled with hot dogs and spaghetti with elk sausage.  It was good, considering.  The conversation moved to the difference in politics between Canada and the States.  Blah blah blah, something about the constitution and how Americans are rude.  Apparently Ocean Falls' population consists of a large number draft dodgers.  It was an interesting conversation even though most of what they were talking about happened before I was even thought of.

We were invited to go on a tour of the place with one of our lunchmates.  Tyler finished up with a few patients after lunch and we got the grand tour.  Our tour guide took us all over the place, pointing out different key buildings and what they use to be.  It was interesting.  A vehicle stopped us and said that Tyler was needed for a few more patients, so our tour was cut short.

Back at the clinic, Tyler took a few more samples of blood while I read the horribly outdated pamphlets that was in the clinic waiting room.  After a bit of waiting around, our plane finally came to pick us up.

As we were flying home, Tyler sat in the front seat and I got a back seat with an excellent view.  The way the water was rippling and the way the sun was shining on it, it looked like gorgeous art stretched out for as far as the eye can see.  It almost took my breathe away.

We landed safely again and drove back to town.  Tyler still had the rest of his work day to complete and I came home.  I worked on a cross-stitch project.  I put off making supper because I had no idea when Tyler would be home.  I knew he had a lot of blood work to do, so I just did my project.

Tyler came home and we made some mac and cheese to quickly satisfy our hunger.  Not much else happened this evening.  We are currently watching the newest Robin Hood and it's a snooze-fest.  As Tyler puts it, "I thought it would be more Robin Hoody and less...story."  There isn't a lot of action but more so the boring stuff that usually comes in between the action.

We hope to get some pictures up here of our day.  Keep a watchful eye for those.
Son